Greenhouse-gas emissions decrease for second year

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 ...

The 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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....