George Soros gave Ivanka's husband's business a $250 million credit line in 2015 per WSJ. Soros is also an investor in Jared's business.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Alberta, Canada $60M emissions trading program lacks a single verifiable agricultural credit says auditor general-Nature

11/25/11, "The problems with emissions trading," Nature, Hannah Hoag

"How does putting a price on carbon reduce greenhouse-gas emissions?"

"Alberta’s Can$60 million (US$57 million) carbon-cutting programme is failing, according to the latest report from the Canadian province’s auditor-general, Merwan Saher. Like many such programmes around the world, it includes an emissions trading scheme, which allows polluters to meet their emissions reductions targets by buying carbon offsets from a selection of approved projects. The offsets are supposed to be real, measurable and provable. But the report claims that the province, despite earlier warnings, has not improved its regulatory structure

  • — and calls the emissions estimates and the offsets themselves into question....

The Alberta report found a lack of standards for how agricultural credits were verified not one of the credits the auditors checked could be confirmed. It also pointed out that there was no standardized, accurate method for measuring the emissions from oil-sands tailing ponds, which store contaminated water, clay, sand and bitumen from oil-sands processing."...

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11/18/11, "UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth By Climate Policy'," NewsBusters (item is third paragraph of Edenhofer quotes)


via Tom Nelson


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