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Manitoba ranks low on green report card

By: Staff Writer

Friday, Jun. 8, 2012 at 1:51 PM | Comments: 2

Manitoba ranks only ahead of Saskatchewan and Alberta in terms of environmentally-friendly practices. (PHIL.HOSSACK@FREEPRESS.MB.CA)

Manitoba’s place on a newly released Green Provincial Report Card is shameful.

Corporate Knights, a company that focuses on clean capitalism by providing information that markets may use to develop green initiatives, released its third bi-annual Green Provincial Report Card today. Manitoba ranked 11th -- with a grade of C+ -- placing ahead of only Saskatchewan and Alberta.

The research team behind the report evaluated each province and territory under the following seven categories: air and climate, water, nature, transportation, waste, energy and buildings, and innovation. Most of the information used to rank the provinces and territories came from federal sources, and the team compared Canada’s 13 jurisdictions to each other.

Ontario received an A- on the report, the highest grade of all. The grade is the result of Ontario’s success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 6.5 per cent since 1990, building green homes, and maintaining a clean technology sector. Corporate Knights calculated that if all provinces and territories achieved best practices in each of the seven categories that were measured, the Canadian average would be 86 per cent – a commendable grade for the nation. To see such practices on a national scale would require cooperation, collaboration and information sharing across the country.

The spring issue of Corporate Knights, distributed today through the Globe and Mail, compares how the 10 provinces did relative to each other, but the full report -- available at www.corporateknights.com/greenprovinces -- ranks and grades all 13 provinces and territories.

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Posted by:JOHN FEFCHAK

June 9, 2012 at 7:27 AM

RANKS LOW, REPORT…Indeed. ? What about ALL the 'Green' that Lake Winnipeg has displayed and
will continue to do so, unless the Federal government AND Manitoba get their priorities in
order and work to-gether, to clean up this mess.

Posted by:turtles back

June 8, 2012 at 10:55 PM

Why is it shameful, producing electricty by windpower is subsided by us the tax payer to the tune of mega dollars. Solar is the sameway. Why are we subsidizing these companies. It just like the ethanol plants that are subsidized by us the taxpayer. We need more dam's or nuclear power, so we as taxpayer aren't sudizing them. The NDP gov't then uses the excess from these company's to use at there discretion for social programs. Manitobans are already taxed to death!!!

NO TO GREEN PROGRAMS SUCH AS......WIND AND SOLAR!!

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