Construction: special report
We should also weigh these estimated Alberta costs with the global societal costs of business-as-usual emissions (without reductions). British economist Sir Nicholas Stern recently estimated the societal costs of carbon emissions at US$85/C02. If applied to Alberta's 2005 carbon emissions, this suggests that Alberta imposes a global societal cost of roughly C$23.1 billion per annum, a kind of unfunded global environmental liability. From a full-cost accounting perspective, what would it cost Alberta if it were to reduce its carbon footprint or CO2 emissions by six per cent below its 1990 levels (the Kyoto reduction target)? To meet the target, Alberta would have to reduce carbon emissions by almost 32 million tonnes of CO (in 2005, Alberta's CO2 emissions were 224 million tonnes compar...
Every company sees these issues as a priority," said Daniel Esty, a professor of environmental law and policy at Yale University and author of a series of books on how the corporate world is going green. He told the recent annual meeting of the Canola Council of Canada that while much of the attention on corporate environmental responsibility has been focused on the liability of environmental non-compliance, "smart executives recognize there is an upside opportunity. Esty said companies see environmental issues as a means of building their profile with customers, but also a means of cutting costs, making more money and even keeping good employees on the payroll longer. "Employees care a lot, and if you don't reflect their values, they'll pick up and go elsewhere." "It is definitely go...
Griffiths discusses whether the undoubted thinning of sea ice in the various waterways that make up the Northwest Passage will produce not only an increase in intercontinental shipping, but a shipping-based challenge to Canada's sovereignty over its Arctic waters. Griffiths argues that climate change presents no serious sovereignty problem in the Northwest Passage where commercial navigation is concerned. However, Canadians may well have a need to prepare for new security and environmental challenges associated with a gradual increase in summer-months foreign shipping, which offers little or no challenge to Canada's occupancy of the high Arctic Archipelago.
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Katz, a Winnipeg architect who now lives in Victoria, B.C., bought the Oak Point Bridge from CN Rail in 2003 and spent the next five years pursuing a plan to build 20 to 24 condominiums over the river. The City of Winnipeg and the federal government signed off on the plan, but the province never provided the environmental approvals. If anything were to happen, I don't have liability (insurance) right now," he said. "There are signs up on the bridge and there are barricades, but occasionally people get up there. Condos on the bridge: In 2004, Katz received approval from the city to build 20 to 24 condos on the structure. In 2005, the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans signed off on the plan, but Katz failed to receive environmental approvals from Manitoba Conservation and woun...
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