N.S. to receive national award for climate change laws
Posted Dec 8, 2009 06:04:33 AM.
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Nova Scotia is getting some credit for its climate change legislation.
Premier Darrell Dexter will receive an award in Copenhagen next week from a Canadian environmental group.
Cheryl Ratchford of the Ecology Action Centre says the awards ceremony next Wednesday will showcase climate change leadership at the municipal and provincial level.
“There’s a lot of positive work happening in the provinces and municipalities that should be rewarded, just to let Canadians know that we may be failing at the federal level, but not on all levels,” she said.
Ratchford says Nova Scotia is getting the award for being the first province to put an emissions cap on the electric sector. It’s part of an overal goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 10 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.
Ratchford says the legislation still isn’t perfect, but it’s a lot better than Canada’s effort.
“Hopefully, the federal government will take some cues from what’s happening in the provinces,” she said.
Nova Scotia is receiving one of 10 awards being presented to other provinces and cities.
