What laws would you give if you were appointed Minister of Conservation? Laws that you would like to introduce in order of priority. What are the reasons of these laws? And what problems may you have getting it through the Parliment?

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your not american. but if i were in charge of conservation, i would make all cars in the roads today hybrids, or have some other form of fuel. i read last month about a guy who was able to light saltwater on fire. imagine what could be done with that! 80% 4 Votes

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• Oh this is interesting. I am in America so my laws are based on the US.
  
  1) No drilling in the national wildlife reserves in Alaska.
  - We need to protect what true untouched nature we have left
  2) CARBON TAX!!! People will be taxed on the amount of carbon they produce. This would apply more to businesses than to the individual person. But it would tax gasoline.
  
  3) I wouldn%26#039;t call this a law but move torwards having half the US car population being hybrid in 10 years. People would recieve large tax deductions for this. Along with this, would come construction of more nuclear power plants to sustain the demand for energy (which grows more with each hybrid sold).
  
  4) I would probably add a lot more money into giving grants for research into better grenn technology and would then demand follow up programs to make sure that the money is being put to good use.
  
  Since I am no politician I have no idea how i would get these through congress. 0% 0 Votes
• Mandatory progressive reduction in the amount of fossil fuels that can be extracted or imported. reductions to be 1% per month as a minimum.
  
  This would be a difficult sale in Parliament, becaus it would be equivalent of handing the extraction industry a big profit bonus. However it would be necessary to support and make useful :
  
  Apply a tax on carbon content of fossil fuels extracted or imported, (whether consumed domestically or exported) The proceeds of this tax would be used to reduce taxes on lower income earners, or increase rebate of VAT to low income earners.
  With the revenue neutrality, this might be saleable to the taxpayer, and particularly the low income taxpayer, but it would be a problem for a federal environment... does the tax go to the federal or provincial coffers, and does the federal government have any right to impose revenue neutrality on the provinces. This becomes a special problem when some provinces are net exporters of fossil fuels while others produce little and consume a lot.
  
  Provision for widespread use of rainwater storage is of course a provincial authority, so that saying I would provide for this would have to relate to a provincial government, not a federal. Also, some of our provinces have already built enormous volumes of water storage, while others have to be very cautious of disturbing salt in the soils if dams are built. This would be a point of conflict and rightly so if implemented federally.
  
  However, with major droughts we should be taking steps to ensure water supply.
  
  Great lakes water levels have been dropping, even as many states in the south west are asking to have some sent their way. We still send most of our water out the St Lawrence River. This calls for negotiation to drastically reduce the amount of water going down the AStLawrence RIver, making it available for domestic water use.
  Now we have a problem with this: reducing the flow of water going down the StLawrence would remove major power generation from that water. We can not drink the water and also send it over the Niagara power generation, or the StLawrence generators, or the St Maries river. Those who want that water would be expected to provide nuclear plants to replace that lost generation capacity.
  
  Now getting this through Parliament would still look like a major sell-out to water hungry states in the USA. Selling it might still be feasible if Ontario too were getting to use some of the water we do not send out the StLawrence river. 0% 0 Votes
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