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[Plane]

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i17/8517news7.html


Canada and the U.S. will hammer out an agreement to control the cross-border flow of particulate air pollution, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson and Canadian Environment Minister John Baird announced on April 13.

The new pact will build on the U.S.-Canada Air Quality Agreement, a 1991 treaty that initially addressed acid rain and scientific cooperation. The two nations added an annex to the accord in 2000 to cover ground-level ozone.

[Michael Tee]

John Baird is as big a bullshit artist as any senior member of the Bush administration.  He and his party have fought against any form of pollution control for years and now they are going to save the planet.  Fuck the two of them.  Their sole interest in this project is to pull the wool over the voters' eyes in both countries.

[The_Professor]

So, MT, are you then saying this agreement won't help this issue at all?

[Michael Tee]

<<So, MT, are you then saying this agreement won't help this issue at all?>>

Professor the possibilities range from (a) alleviating the situation to the barest minimum possible while still preserving most of the freedom of action of the major polluters to (b) making no difference at all to (c) actually worsening the situation because of the false sense of progress that it might impart to some environmental activists and their supporters.

You have to understand where Baird is coming from.  He's a soul-mate of the Bush Republicans.  He and Harper (his PM) have sabotaged Canada's previously-stated Kyoto decisions and set up a fake "Canadian way" for dealing with pollution that flies in the face of everything that was agreed on at Kyoto.   Basically, they want to LOOK like pollution fighters while giving the polluters a free hand ot continue the status quo.

[Plane]

I will take what I can get .

Less acid rain produced in the west and north means better fishing in the south and east , the relationship is direct.