Sentences with phrase «environmental laggard»

«It's your country, Canada's going to do what it's going to do,» Nye said, making a point of referring to his own country's government as an environmental laggard.

Its tall, gangly, inefficient architecture makes it an environmental laggard among plants, one that sucks up water and fertilizer while leaching out gobs of nutrients that run off in rainfall, polluting surface waters from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

«It's your country, Canada's going to do what it's going to do,» Nye said, making a point of referring to his own country's government as an environmental laggard.

Not exact matches

For years, Alberta was seen as a laggard on environmental issues, but our province appears to have turned a corner.