Traduction de «Canadian Farm and Industrial Equipment Institute » (Anglais → Français) :

Question No. 140 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to development of the oil sands, its impacts on the environment and surrounding communities, and the economic effects of these impacts: (a) what, if any, steps has the government taken to establish air emission limits or air quality standards to achieve the World Health Organization’s Air Quality Guidelines to protect air quality and human health; (b) what, if any, steps has the government’s sector-by-sector approach taken to regulate carbon emissions in the oil sands to ensure the oil sands industry makes appropriate reductions in its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to ...[+++]contribute to Canada’s GHG emission reduction goal of 17% below the 2005 level; (c) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine the effect of the oil sands expansion on (i) GHG emissions, (ii) Canada’s ability to meet its GHG emission reduction goals, (iii) Canada’s contribution to the goal of staying below a 2°C increase in global average surface temperature, relative to the pre-industrial level, as articulated at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations through the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009 and the Cancun Agreements in December 2010, (iv) the full suite of sustainability criteria, including environmental, economic and social sustainability, and (v) what were the results of any studies identified in (c)(i), (c)(ii), (c)(iii), and (c)(iv); (d) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine (i) the scope of oil sands expansion if the oil sands sector is not required to deliver its proportional share of GHG reductions, (ii) the impacts such a decision would have on other sectors’ allowable GHG emissions, (iii) whether other sectors of the Canadian economy would have to do more than their proportional share to reduce emissions, (iv) what were the results of any studies identified in (d)(i), (d)(ii), and (d)(iii); (e) what, if any, studies ...

Only industry-funded institutions such as the Chrysotile Institute, which is a registered lobbyist for the asbestos industry, promote chrysotile asbestos and claim, against all independent evidence, that it can be safely used.In Canada, chrysotile asbestos is classified as a hazardous substance under Canadian law in order to protect Canadians.

To identify the strategic challenges for these industries, a number of Technology Platforms have been created recently, bringing together industry, research institutes, public authorities, financial institutions and so on to define a common research agenda, in areas such as food for life, plants for the future, forestry, global animal health, farm animal breeding and industrial biotechnology ...[+++].

20. Is convinced that liberalisation of the markets in the SEMC would primarily benefit large mechanised farms, which already benefit in full from the compensation fund system; calls on the institutional players of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership to improve access to loans for small-scale producers and to develop a system for weighting aid towards small farmers, who constitute the overwhelming majority of the farming population of these countries and who will be the first to suffer from competition with the European Union and, in the long run, to replace the old system of compensation and aid with a new system of support for sustainable farming and small-scale food processing industry investments in order to strengthen the competitivene ...[+++]ss of rural economies through diversification, local marketing and the production of specific qualities.

50. Is convinced that liberalisation of the markets in the SEMC would primarily benefit large mechanised farms, which already benefit in full from the compensation fund system; calls on the institutional players of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership to improve access to loans for small-scale producers and to develop a system for weighting aid towards small farmers, who constitute the overwhelming majority of the farming population of these countries and who will be the first to suffer from competition with the European Union and, in the long run, to replace the old system of compensation and aid with a new system of support for sustainable farming and small-scale food processing industry investments in order to strengthen the competitivene ...[+++]ss of rural economies through diversification, local marketing and the production of specific qualities;

The reason is that on the day it was published in Science magazine it was sent out by press release by an international PR company based in New York and simultaneously appeared on the website of the Canadian-based Suzuki Foundation, which campaigns on behalf of Alaskan wild salmon and which, of course, has a vested interest in damaging the European farmed salmon industry.