VANCOUVER – Provinces and states are driving policy on greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions in North America, but federal jurisdictions in both Canada and the U.S. are expected to play a greater role, experts told a GLOBE 2008 session.
In Canada, the federal government is committed to publishing regulations this fall, lawyer Barbara Hendrickson, a partner with McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP in Toronto, told a session on “Climate Change Policy & Regulatory Trends in North America.” There is “quite a bit of uncertainty” how the federal regulations will fit with provincial regulations, although most observers believe Ottawa’s plan “is copying largely the Alberta…
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