NEWS RELEASE
Nov. 24, 2000

Tooker Burns Passport in Protest

At 12 noon today in Den Haag, the Netherlands, where the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP6) is taking place, Tooker Gomberg and Kelly Reinhardt burned their Canadian passports to protest Canada's abominable position at the conference.

"Right now we're ashamed to be Canadians. Canada's position at this conference has been the most dismal of any country on the planet. Instead of showing some leadership, Canada has embarrassed all Canadians and doomed the Arctic (arctic ice has melted by 40% in recent decades). Axworthy should hop on a plane and go home in shame rather than hold the planet ransom."

Every day a worldwide coalition of environmental groups, Fossil-of-the-day, gives out awards for the most obstructive country to the climate negotiations. Canada has gotten more awards than any country in the world!

Some of the loathsome positions Canada has taken at this conference include:

+ trying to hijack the CDM and use it as a subsidy for its failed nuclear reactor export program;

+ accounting tricks rather than real action;

+ proposing additional additives to claim carbon credits;

+ wanting to remove references to existing international environment agreements;

+ using sinks so that, rather than making cuts, they could actually increase domestic emissions and still keep their Kyoto commitment;

+ including nuclear energy in CDM projects;

+ opposing limits on hot air.

Tooker and Kelly explain...

From 1 p.m. (EST) onward Tooker Gomberg will appear in a live webcast at http://www.abips.org.br/haia/haia.cfm (Real Player required; click on the TV screen...)

For background info on Gomberg check out:

Gomberg for Mayor and Greenspiration!

Tooker Gomberg can be reached by phone: 01131 6123 06874