The state of Canada-US relations

What an unbelievably LOADED panel! Atrocious journalism. ONE wonderful excellent advocate for earth and transition to renewables! FOUR strong advocates --purely centered on promoting fossils and pipelines. You thoroughly betrayed adequate coverage of the issue.. TRY such experts as Robyn Allan ---to give us some FACTS—and the WHOLE story. “Oil Sands Development–What the Industry Doesn’t Want Us to Know” http://www.robynallan.com/ January 15, 2013 presentation at the University Women’s Club in Vancouver. Both Pricewaterhouse Cooper and the “bastions of economic orthodoxy” recently made “startling” statements. At Davos Ms. Lagarde said: “Unless we take action on climate change future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.” Feb 1/13 Globe and Mail Solutons abound. WHEN do we get to hear Jeremy Rifkin who has worked with Merkel in Germany for 20 years! Germany that produced solar equal to 20 nuclear power stations on May 26/12!!!! It's the TIME LAG people! We are going to 2 degrees from CO2 already in the pipeline! We cannot negotiate the laws of physics and chemistry. Transition IS urgent. Try David Roberts’ TED talk—17 minutes. http://youtu.be/pznsPkJy2x8 OR his ’ "tweet record" while Sandy worked its devastation. David Roberts@drgrist “Realtalk: The oceans will continue to rise for at least 50 years no matter what we do. We can only affect the latter half of century. There's nothing Obama (or Bush, Clinton, Bush, or Reagan) could have done to prevent Sandy. Climate don't work that way. Big time lags. The mega-hurricanes that we CAN prevent are the ones that will bedevil our children in the latter third of this century. The best we can do for ourselves and those alive in the next 50 years is enhance the resilience of our communities & infrastructure. Luckily, distributed renewable energy accomplishes both: reduces carbon emissions & enhances resilience. A two-fer! Let's do it..." http://grist.org/climate-energy/hawks-vs-scolds-how-reverse-tribalism-affects-climate-communication/ YOU KNOW WHY SOLAR isn’t on the table? Not because it’s too expensive per one of your panelists. It's too free-- too cheap in the long run. The expense would be in the infrastructure for distributed smart energy-- where the money should be going-- INSTEAD of into bitumen infrastructure! A deeply disappointed CPAC listener. Please share with your partners at McLean’s. Eileen Kosior Black Diamond, ALBERTA