THE CATHOLIC Church
may be in dispute with
Deputy Prime Minister
Sheila Copps about whether
she is properly married or
not, but when it comes to her
other role, as federal
Environment Minister, it is
becoming abundantly clear
that she is not in favor of
emission controls.

To recap: the Tories put a senior
Natural Resources Department
bureaucrat named Sue Kirby in
charge of the Climate Change Task
Force, the advisory committee put
together to figure out a way to meet
Canada's international pledge to
reduce our carbon divxide output.

But when she showed up to
chair her first meeting,
Greenpeace’s Kevin Jardine
reports, she announced: “What we
need to do is some quick-hit, fast-
track things we can all wgree on,
and as far as I'm concerned that’s
the job of this group.”

With both Exxon and
Greenpeace at the table, agreement
was clearly going to be impossible,
ergo, nothing could in fact possibly
be accomplished, and the govern-
ment would be left off the hook
since its own advisory body
couldn’t make up its mind.

Lovely. The oil companies, big
electric utilities, and gas and gaso-
line distributors were content, and
the eco-folk were tied up in knots
by the multistakeholder ploy, used
with such effectiveness by various
governments lately. ;

The disaster struck, or scemed to
strike. The Liberals got elected.
And in their famous Red Book they
had made a commitment to the
Toronto Target recommended by
the conference on the Changing
Atmosphere. That is, to a 20% cut
in carbon dioxide levels from 1988
levels by the year 2005, which was
way more ambitious chan th= best
Tory promise of mere stabilization,
which meant no rollback at all.

: Environmentalists had been try-
ing for years to get a joint meeting
with the Tory Energy Minister,
Jake Epp, and the then —
Environment Minister, Jean

_. Charest. Within‘a month:of the fed-
eral election, and the weeks alter
the elevation of Ann b4cClelland

_. and Sheila Copps to replace the two

previous clowns, the eco-groups in
the energy caucus of the Canadian

Environmental Network got the

mecting they wanted.

That was a very good sign.
Come the meeting, Greenpeace’s
Jardine got up and told Minister
Copps flatly that the energy caucus
had been told by a federal bureau-
crat that the 20% cut commitment
was just an election promise, and
meant nothing.

Copps appeared to blow up. “I
don’t know who was telling you
that.” ‘The federal bureaucrat in
question was Sue Kirby, who hap-
pened to be sitting at Copps’ elbow,
but, as sometimes happens at these
things, everyone was too polite to

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point this out. “That's certaialy not
the case,” Copps insisted. “This is a
government commitmerit.”

Louise Comeau from the Sierra
Club asked Copps for a letter to that
effect. Copps said: “Sure, you can
nave that fetter.” Ann McClelland,
the new Energy Minister, said very
little during the meeting, which was
a good thing, since she was the
dean of a law school in Edmonton,
and the only reason she got the
energy portfolio was because she
happened to be one of the few
Liberals from Alberta,

For her part, Sue Kirby was visi-

. bly upset. This promise of a letter

bothered her. Doug Russell, point
man for Environment Canada’s cli-
mate change study program, said
immediately after the meeting: “I'm
going to write that letter today and
you'll have it soon.”

Months passed. The
Environment Network. energy cau-
cus began to worry because the
next Intergovernmental Negotiating
Committee meeting on climate
change was scheduled for Geneva
shortly, and the letter pledging a
20% CO’ cut from the Canadian
government would be incredibly
useful for climate activists, they
could circulate it among the inter-
national bureaucrats who, in turn,
are responsible for getting the
politicians together for a policy-set-
ting Conference of the Parties meet-
ing in March 1995.

At a meeting of the Canadian
Council of Ministers of the
Environment in Saskatchewan last
year, Copps declared she was pre~
pared to “go it alone, if we have to,
but we want to work with the
provinces if we can.”

At that meeting, the provincial
ministers agreed that their commit-
ment was to “stabilization, with
consideration of sustainable options
for further reductions,” which
meant, in the old Tory language. no
rollback of emissions. The Liberals
somehow managed to claim a victo-
ry because the statement was “com-
patible”? with their 20% reduction
commitment. It was just that the
provinces needed some weasel
words to cover their political asses.

The fossil fuel industry likewise
claimed a victory for stabilization
while environmentalists insisted the

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20% cut had to be in the plan, In
the end, everybody by now thor-
oughly fuzzified by the government
two-facedness, the Climate Change
Task Force agreed to prepare four
options, one for stabilization, one
for a 10% cut, one for a 20% cut
and one for a 30%.

The promised letter from Copps
supporting the 20% cut bounced
around the Ottawa bureaucracy for
more months.

A sub-group of the Climate
Change Task Force was set up,
called the Measures Working
Group, to actually prepare options
for consideration, A 300-page doc-
ument emerged last May, which
proved, amazingly, to be a solid
piece of work, listing virtually
every measure environmental
groups had been fighting for.

The fossil fuel industry, which
had mostly ignored the sub-group
suddenly woke up and struck back.
The test of Sheila’s stee! had come.
Wanna make bets now how it’s
going to work out? Stay tuned.

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Act of British Columbia, that a Public Hearing will be held on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, §
1994 at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, B.C., {
to receive representations in connection with the following proposed amendment to “Zoning Bylaw,
1967”, and the “Zoning Map of the City of North Vancouver", which is an integral part of “Zoning
Bylaw, 1967", also known as Bylaw No. 3778:

BYLAW NO. 6586
To rezone Lots 1-4 and B, Block 86, D.L. 548, Plan 750, located at 150 West 8th Street, as indicated :
in hatched pattern on the map below. The amending bylaw will have the effect of removing the said

property

FROM: P-1 (Public Use and Assembly) and a Land Use Contract. dated August 24, 1973 ~
(“Land Use Contract Bylaw, 1973, No. 4612”)

TO: CD-274 (Comprehensive Development 274 Zone)

The proposed bylaw will permit development of a 4 storey, 61-unit apartment building on the site. |
The amending bylaw will also regulate the size, shape and siting of buildings and structures, j
off-street and accessory eff-street parking requirements, location and screening of refuse containers
and landscaping and maintenance.

APPLICANT: MACLEAN/ROMSES ARCHITECT

[ PERSONS who believe that their interest in property is affected by proposed Bylaw No.4586,
shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard in person, by attorney or by petition.
The proposed Bylaw may be inspected at the office of the City Clerk between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.,
Monday to Friday, except Statutory Holidays, from August 29 - September 12, 1994. Written

L submissions will he accepted up to and including SEPTEMBER 12, 199-4, but submissions will NOT
f be accepted after the conclusion of the Public Hearing,

Bruce A. Hawkshaw, City Clerk