Mr. Alex Atamanenko (British Columbia Southern Interior, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to speak to this bill once more in what is probably the last speech today.
As we know, the amendments to the bill that I put forward in committee were rejected. The checks and balances that we tried to introduced here in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘biofuels’
Biofuels Speech - Bill C-53: The need for checks and balances
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Government’s Biofuel Bill Lacks Accountability (column)
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Currently Bill C-33, An Act to Amend the Environmental Protection Act, is under debate in the House of Commons and if passed as written, will give the Harper government a blank cheque to implement mandatory requirements for ethanol content in gasoline and average renewable content in diesel and heating oil.
The NDP has historically been [...]
Speech to Bill -33 Biofuels: The risks
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Mr. Alex Atamanenko (British Columbia Southern Interior, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to speak to Bill C-33.
There has been some criticism that this bill is being held up for no reason, and let us get on with it and push it through. This is not the case.
We are debating a motion put forward by [...]
Speech to Biofuels - C-33: Precautionary approach
Monday, April 28th, 2008Mr. Alex Atamanenko (British Columbia Southern Interior, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to speak once again to this bill. I just want to say that the amendment that we are proposing, that this bill goes to a special committee to ensure that any regulations or any rules that affect biofuels undergo careful scrutiny, [...]
Speech - Bill C-33 on Biofuels: Effect on Food production
Friday, February 1st, 2008Mr. Alex Atamanenko (British Columbia Southern Interior, NDP): Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak to Bill C-33. It is important that we look at the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act dealing with fuels as part of a long range study on the impact of biofuels, not only in [...]