Marlo Raynolds, Executive Director of the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the outcome of yesterday's election:

"The Pembina Institute congratulates Conservative leader Stephen Harper for winning a second term as the leader of a minority government.

Unfortunately, Mr. Harper's approach to tackling global warming so far has been very weak. If Canada is going to move from a laggard to a leader on climate change, Mr. Harper needs to toughen up his climate and energy policy significantly. For example:

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Tim Weis, Directeur du programme des énergies renouvelables et de l'efficacité énergétique à l'Institut Pembina, a émis les commentaires suivants en réaction aux propositions à ce sujet contenus dans la plateforme du Bloc Québécois :

« Bien qu'il lui manque des détails importants, la plateforme du Bloc contient des éléments forts dans le domaine des énergies renouvelables et de l'efficacité énergétique, notamment l'objectif de réduire de moitié la dépendance du Québec au pétrole d'ici dix ans.

Le parti appuie une augmentation du financement du programme écoÉNERGIE pour l'électricité renouvelable. Cependant, le Bloc demande de faire passer l'objectif du programme à 8000 MW, alors que l'Institut Pembina et les industries des énergies renouvelables croient que l'objectif doit être d'au moins 12 000 MW d'ici 2014.

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Marlo Raynolds, Executive Director of the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to today's Conservative platform.

"The Conservative party platform missed the opportunity to strengthen the party's inadequate approach to global warming, and instead added more uncertainty to it. The party also failed to announce support for a key renewable energy program that's about to expire, and did not offer a strategy to deal with the environmental impacts of runaway oil sands development.

Today's platform states that the government "will implement" its March 2008 "Turning the Corner" proposal for climate change - but then calls that assertion into question in the next sentence.

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By Matthew Bramley, Director, Climate Change

Matthew Bramley, Director of the Pembina Institute's Climate Change Program, made the following statement in response to the NDP's platform proposals relating to climate and energy:

"The NDP released its climate plan earlier in the campaign. As we noted then, it contains a number of strong elements to combat climate change. These include legislated national targets for greenhouse gas pollution that align with scientific recommendations, a price on industrial pollution high enough to start to moving Canada's economy towards lower emissions, and a strong commitment to renewable energy. However, despite some new details in the platform released today, the NDP has not yet produced a comprehensive plan that is clearly capable of meeting the national emissions targets that the party supports.

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By Chris Severson-Baker, Policy Director 

Chris Severson-Baker, Policy Director at the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to today’s Conservative announcement on bitumen exports and northern oil and gas pipelines:

“This announcement will very likely do nothing to change Canada’s status as a dirty energy superpower or to reduce our greenhouse gas pollution.

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Marlo Raynolds, Executive Director of the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to today's Conservative news release in which Stephen Harper attacks carbon taxes:

"These statements are simply not accurate and do not contribute to an informed debate about the best ways for Canada to fight global warming.

Mr. Harper said that a carbon tax would "do untold damage" to Alberta's energy sector, and predicted that a carbon tax "will erase and even reverse the gains" that Alberta's economy has made in the last few years.

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