CBC website gets the facts wrong on the "emission" plan.

The CBC explains the latest Conservative environment scheme as follows (from the CBC website)

Companies [...] will be required to cut back their greenhouse gas emissions by 18 per cent by 2010. After that, they have to reduce amounts by two per cent a year.

True or false?

False

Fact: The current so-called "emission" plan requires polluters to cut back on "carbon intensity", not on "greenhouse gas emissions".

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Update - Other media repeating the deceiving message:
Calgary Herald

So the Conservatives threw out a target -- [...] 18 per cent emissions cut [...] -- and called it their best compromise.

US intensity targets led to INCREASE of emissions by 14%

Read "Carbon Emissions Climbing" by Earth Policy Institute:

In the United States, the Bush administration's "Clear Skies" proposal requires a decline in carbon emissions per unit of economic output (known as carbon intensity), but not overall carbon emissions. [...] The U.S. economy has consistently improved its carbon intensity, yet emissions have continued to increase. According to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, the carbon intensity of the U.S. economy was cut by 17 percent between 1990 and 2000, yet total emissions increased during that time by 14 percent due to a 39-percent increase in economic activity.

Reductions in carbon intensity do not mean a reduction in actual carbon emissions.

Repeat after me:

Reductions in carbon intensity do not mean a reduction in actual carbon emissions.

That's right. It's the "made in the US" fraud version of Kyoto. Don't fall for it.

See also: Rusty Idols