Chris in the News: Hamilton groups angry about death of climate bill

Hamilton groups angry about death of climate bill

Hamilton Spectator

A coalition of Hamilton environmental groups is denouncing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative majority Senate for killing a climate control bill earlier this week.

Around 40 members of the Hamilton 350 Committee staged a noontime rally outside the federal building in downtown Hamilton today demanding Canada do more to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions in advance of a major global conference on climate change in Cancun Mexico later this month.

“I’m upset by two things,” said Hamilton Mountain NDP MP Chris Charlton. “First, the only piece of climate change legislation just got defeated in Parliament.

“Second, I’m upset by the way it was defeated - by an unelected Senate overturning the will of a democratically elected House of Commons.

“It’s absolutely outrageous.”

She said Canada will go the to climate change conference in Cancun with nothing in its hands.

Rally organizer Don McLean said global action on the part of people will be needed to advance environmental needs to combat climate change.

“Governments are not going to solve this, people will have to solve this through mass movement because the change that is required is a fundamental one.”

Hamilton Spectator