Manitoba Conservation: Kyoto Protocol

Pollution Reduction Dept: The announcement from Premier Greg Selinger comes exactly one week after the provincial auditor general said the reductions weren't going to happen within the NDP government's time frame or current programs, according to CBC. But Auditor General Carol Bellringer said in a recent report that that won't happen. In April, Manitoba Conservation forecast a gap of 2.7 megatonnes by the time the target is to be met in 2012. 'It's still, to my way of thinking, virtually impossible to meet that target.' John Fjeldsted, president of the Manitoba Environmental Industries Association Manitoba's premier affirmed Wednesday his government's commitment to meet its ambitious pollution-reduction goals even though some say it would take "a miracle" to do so. Selinger told News the province is sticking by its ambitious Kyoto Protocol targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to six per cent below 1990 levels, a cut of about 17.5 megatonnes. As reported in the news.
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