Harper Government Plans More Funding Cuts For Canadian Climate Programs - G&M

[hatrack]

OTTAWA -- The Conservative government is planning a second wave of cuts to climate-change programs and is asking public servants to help manage the "fallout" by explaining why their positions should disappear. Government officials who manage the programs were told this week that programs extended by one year in April will not be renewed.

The officials are being asked to compile information as to who would most likely be affected and what their public reaction would be. The project is being described internally as "government-wide" and The Globe and Mail was able to confirm that at least two departments, Natural Resources Canada and Agriculture Canada, were submitting reports this week.

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Five climate-change programs at Agriculture Canada will be shut down. They include:

A $5-million Model Farms program to develop estimates of how much carbon can be removed from the atmosphere through new farming practices;

A $21-million project called the Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Program for Canadian Agriculture, meant to involve farmers in the government's campaign to reduce greenhouse gases;

A $4-million Shelterbelts Enhancement Program that aims to reduce greenhouse gases by encouraging farmers to line their fields with trees to reduce wind and help control snow piles;

A program dealing with manure management and a fifth program dealing with the role of farmers and "future fuels."

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061125.CLIMATE25/TPStory/Environment

[applegrove]

1. They are truly nuts. But I suppose anyone from Alberta Establishment

would hate environmentalists. Because Alberta will soon be the largest stove top in the world as the tar sands have to be boiled to get at the oil.

[nealmhughes]

2. Harper is out to drown Canada's federal govt. in a baignoire.

His government earlier cut funding to the various health libraries in the universities in Canada, leaving funding to the institutions/provinces. Unlike the US, Canada does not have a NIH or NHL system, rather each medical school in the country acts as part of a consortium with the feds making up a great part of the budget.

Basicly, Harper argued that the US system could take up the slack!

The only thing he is afraid to touch is health care, per se.

He might as well become a board member of PNAC and the Heritage Foundation.

[lakeguy]

3. f'in a man...

it's like you're speeding towards a brick wall and the dipshit driving gives it the gas.