A trio of West Coast governors and a Canadian premier on Monday signed a \u201cPacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy,\u201d described with great hyperbole as a comprehensive and far-reaching \u201cstrategic alignment\u201d to promote clean energy and curb climate change.<\/p>\n

The states of California, Oregon and Washington, together with British Columbia, would constitute the world\u2019s fiftieth largest economy in a mythical \u201cEcotopia.\u201d\u00a0 By \u201cjoining forces,\u201d tweeted Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, \u201cWe intend to design the future, not wreck it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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British Columbia Premier Christy Clark:\u00a0 She signs climate Action Plan with West Coast governors, while boosting location of liquid natural gas export terminals up and down the B.C. Coast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The action plan announcement said that California and British Columbia will maintain their existing carbon-pricing programs and respective clean-fuel standards, while Washington and Oregon move to adopt similar programs.<\/p>\n
British Columbia Environment Minister Mary Polak told The Globe and Mail<\/a> that Washington and Oregon will soon move to a carbon pricing system similar to B.C.\u2019s seven-year-old carbon tax.<\/p>\n
Inslee has a task force on climate change at work.\u00a0It held a packed public meeting last week in Seattle.<\/p>\n
Cross-border agreements are nothing new, and do not always live up to the highfalutin\u2019 rhetoric of signing ceremonies and news conferences.<\/p>\n
A much-touted oil spill cleanup plan of the late 1980s served mainly to clean up spills on the coffee table in the ante room of the B.C. premier\u2019s office in Victoria.<\/p>\n
But the politicians were waxing eloquent on Monday.<\/p>\n
Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n
Read the Pacific Coast Climate Action Plan Here<\/a><\/p>\n
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