The NHLPA gets ridiculous...
They're getting into bed with David Suzuki and just looking silly...
Just pay $290 and you're off scott-free...now they can consider themselves 'superior'....the plain fact of the matter is that this small amount of money will actually do nothing but affect the psyches of the players.....NHL hockey is going green.
In a first for a major North American professional sports league, the National Hockey League Players Association is teaming up with the David Suzuki Foundation to promote action on climate change. And players are taking the lead by buying carbon credits to offset the environmental impact of their extensive travel during season play.
"To have ... all these great heroes to Canadian kids taking a stand on one of the most important issues of our time is wonderful," Suzuki told reporters at a downtown hotel last night. "I can assure you, the traction you're going to get from this stand is far beyond anything environmentalists like I can get."
The initiative, spearheaded by Boston Bruins defenceman Andrew Ference and promoted by former all-star Eric Lindros, has really caught fire, said Paul Kelly, executive director of the players' group.
More than half of the league's 700-plus players have already signed the carbon neutral challenge, said Kelly, who expects more than 500 will eventually participate.
"We players really want to show our fans and the kids who look up to us that action is louder than words and going carbon neutral is a big start for us," said Ference. The Suzuki Foundation calculates that NHL players generate an average of about 10 tonnes of carbon emissions every year flying to games, staying in hotels and driving to and from arenas. At a cost of $29 per tonne, players will pay $290 each to offset their emissions.
The money will support wind energy in Madagascar, biomass energy in India and a hydroelectric project in Indonesia, the foundation says. These clean energy projects have been chosen by the foundation and meet the so-called gold standard for carbon offsets.
posted by GayandRight @ 11:51 AM
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Stop me if you heard this one before.
The Teachers Union is the biggest
share holder of Maple Leaf stock via their Pension fund , teachers also invest the pension money in non-Union business for the Higher returns than the ever striking Businesses with Unions , AND many of the Teachers and CUPE Union Members add to Pollution and Climate change by supporting a oppressive nation like Cuba with
our Tax dollars while on Vacations their are being oblivious to the jails where gay men are kept under the Guise of a Hospital for Aids victims.
So why the surprise that the Leafs can Globe trot in jets along with teachers and Al Gore who now push the Carbon credits as a placating form of Hush-Money to stem the crowds of followers who worship Al and David , even CUPE had the nerve to Boycott Israel while the Saudis flogged a female rape victim and Syria allegedly Tortured Arar while Iran hangs several men for being gay.
Sid Ryan just doesn't get it when it comes to his Campaigns in Oshawa that he has lost so many times , these family men who see the opression and murder by buddies of the Left in Iran, Cuba,Saudi Arabia, Palestine,Iraq ,Lebanon,Algeria and all the other hell-holes under islamic rule go unchecked for any protests in canada .
But Sid and the NDP will take sides with Dictators and thugs merely because it's fashionable to hate the USA and Israel , too bad the leftists are so dumb and don't see what the Islamofascists have in store for them once they get a bit more power to impose Sharia law in canada.
But it's a start. It's something that the NHL is doing that no other league is doing it. And the guy who spearheaded it, Andrew Ference--practices what he preaches. Drives a hybrid vehicle, has a wind-powered home, rides a bicycle to and from home games/practices, buys locally produced foods...
Say what you will about the whole initiative, but it comes from a good place, and it's with a good cause in mind. It isn't perfect, but it's something.
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