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Leading Canadian building owners, developers and design professionals know how to deliver large scale and permanent reductions in GreenHouseGas emissions.
Over the past five years, these professionals have designed, constructed and operated hundreds of green, energy-efficient buildings across Canada with the support of Natural Resources Canada’s Commercial Building Incentive Program (CBIP).
Recently-announced federal initiatives give no meaningful support to the building industry and cancel the CBIP funding that has helped improve energy performance of buildings since 1998.
“The government should build on the demonstrated success of CBIP rather than canceling it, and not putting anything new in its place,” .. “..we urge the government to entrench a stronger federal role in green building development and support the momentum of the Canadian building industry.”
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"I think it is just foolish to try to exempt the big polluters from taking meaningful action" - John Baird, Canadas Environment Minister speaks
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Greenhouse-gas reductions likely overestimated, panel says
OTTAWA — The Conservative government is overestimating the amount of greenhouse-gas reductions that will be achieved through its climate-change policies, a federally funded panel of business and environmental experts reports.
September 21, 2007
