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Greenhouse gas levels must drop by 2011 May 17, 2008 04:30 AM Rob Ferguson Queen's Park Bureau The Ontario government, which has twice broken promises to close highly polluting coal-fired power plants, has ordered them to cut harmful greenhouse-gas emissions.
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FlagThe plants, including the Nanticoke generating station, the largest coal-powered facility in North America, have been set to close by 2014 as part of the provincial government's strategy for combatting climate change. Ontario Power Generation, the crown corporation responsible for the sale of 70 per cent of the province's electricity, will have to reduce the plants' combined emissions from 34.5 megatonnes to 11.5 megatonnes as per a directive from Premier Dalton McGuinty's government.
From Saturday's Globe and Mail May 16, 2008 at 7:42 PM EDT Greenhouse-gas emissions in Canada declined for a second year in a row during 2006, falling to 721 million tonnes, or by 1.9 per cent from a year earlier, according to figures released Friday by Environment Canada.
Canada's greenhouse gas emissions continued a downward trend in 2006 as Canadians were using cleaner sources of energy and requiring less heating due to warmer winters, a new inventory released by Environment Canada revealed on Friday. According to the data, Canada's greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 1.9 per cent in 2006 compared to the previous year, but still remained nearly 30 per cent above the country's overall goal under the international Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
A new report says Canada's greenhouse-gas emissions declined in 2006 but still soared above Kyoto targets. The federal government's annual greenhouse-gas inventory says Canadians produced 721 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2006. That's 1.9 per cent below 2005 levels, but 29.1 per cent above Canada's Kyoto Protocol target of 558.4 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
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