1.26.2009

This. Is. Bad. (for the Saskatchewan and Alberta oil industry)

Luiza Savage gives a rundown of who's who in the Obama administration as it pertains to Canada. If you're an oil company executive it doesn't look good.

As well, there are two other things to seriously look at.

Obama is planning to increase auto emission and mileage standards -- stories from the Washington Post and the New York Times.

Secondly, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has appointed a special envoy for climate change. Given that most conservative western Canadian politicians have rejected climate change as an argument for cutting carbon emissions, I think they are going to be pretty lonely people. The sound you're hearing is the sound of Stephen Harper finding out that he has no friends in the world.

Oh yeah, the most eriudite blogger around, James Wolcott of Vanity Fair, takes the urine out of the no-conservative movement's environmental policy with the aid of another of the late William F. Buckley's sons. Go. Read.

1 comment:

The Mouth Journal said...

Stephen Harper is the new George Bush, w/o the family establishment or bombs to back himself up. He must feel like the *only* guy left in residence at the end of the spring semester, eating alone in the cafeteria, 16 hours alone with the sounds of his own silence...