Comments on: Canada, U.S., Australia look bad by shunning IRENA

By: mark

mark — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:34:48 +0000

What is the major reasoning for pretty much every large industrialized country avoiding this?

I’m just trying to see the other side of the coin here…

By: Sam Roggeveen

Sam Roggeveen — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:02:16 +0000

Thanks for informing me about this, Tyler. I have sought comment from the Australian Government:

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2009/01/Why-aren't-we-in-IRENA.aspx

By: OldNeil

OldNeil — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:06:33 +0000

Not really a surprise that our Alberta PM, (bought and paid for by big oil), doesn’t support alternative energy. He’s either very ignorant, or completely lacking in morals (I suspect the later)

By: IRENA Conference | Becrux

IRENA Conference | Becrux — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:55:11 +0000

[...] was founded on Australia Day this year, a few days ago, and the Rudd Government shunned this [...]

By: Scatter

Scatter — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:37:01 +0000

Sadly the UK is barely participating either:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/26/irena-renewable-energy-summit

Pretty lame.