Green Party issues challenge to other local candidates
As reported by the Recorder and Times yesterday, Green Party candidate Jeanie Warnock has issued a challenge to other candidates "to demonstrate what steps they're taking to reduce the environmental footprint of their campaigns".
Warnock and her supporters will be distributing white pine seedlings at three locations in Brockville and in Kemptville over today and tomorrow, in order to offset the CO2 emissions generated by her campaign.
In response, the R&T reported that "Conservative incumbent Gord Brown said he's proud of his environmental track record as MP, which he said includes championing $2 million in funding for biosphere reserves across Canada and $15 million in federal cash for the Greenfield Ethanol plant in Johnstown. He noted his constituency office ran a Project Porchlight program encouraging residents to switch to energy efficient lightbulbs."
Once again, Mr. Brown's office is presenting Project Porchlight as its own initiative, when in fact his office started operating as a distribution point two months after the project launch by Project Porchlight officials and well after door-to-door deliveries had been completed by many BCAG members and other citizens.
The R&T also reported that NDP candidate Steve Armstrong said he walks whenever possible and noted, "We're going to hand out jobs and doctors and $400 a month in child care."
Liberal candidate Marjory Loveys said she plans to mirror the Grits' national campaign and buy "off-sets" to make her campaign carbon-neutral. "We'll be putting money into projects that are reducing carbon," she is reported as stating.
