By Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd
A new report from the Alberta-based Pembina Institute and the David Suzuki Foundation, commissioned by TD Bank and released this past week, alarmingly lays out the economic impact on Canada of achieving even the modest CO2 reduction targets set by the Canadian government – a 20 per cent reduction on 2006 emissions – with western Canada, and Alberta in particular, targeted to beat the brunt of the devastation.