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Reports on the anti-greenhouse gas plan in British Columbia (BC) that would impose a super-tax on sport utility vehicles. Suggestion that the tax is linked to the Conference of the Parties meeting at The Hague concerning the 1997 Kyoto global-warming accord; Details of the proposal of a 'feebate' program for purchases of new automobiles; View of BC Automobile Dealers Association president Paul Taylor on the adverse effect of new car sales.

Discusses the ways that Alberta and British Columbia are preparing to protect their economies from federal climate controls. Claims of John Manley that Canada's potential failure to meet emissions targets would not matter; Idea that Manley has contradicted the wording of the Kyoto convention on climate change; Non-compliance of nations within the agreement which would cause them to lose the right to trade emissions credits internationally; Admission of the World Wildlife Fund that there is less enforcement with an environmental agreement than with a trade agreement.

Reports on the purchase of 60 gas-electric hybrid cars, by the government of British Columbia Environment Minister Ian Waddell. Statement of Waddell, of the New Democratic Party, that the purchase of the cars was part of a so-called greening government plan; Waddell's description of his conversation with a deer, encountered while Waddel was driving one of the cars, a Toyota Prius; Admission of Waddell that the Prius had been purchased for him by the government.