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Winnipeg Free Press Thursday, August 9th, 2007 Premiers urged to regulate sources of global warming pollution Thursday Aug 9 2007 MONCTON, N.B. (CP) - A network of national environmental groups is calling on Canada's premiers to step in and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to overcome what it describes as "federal inaction" on climate change. Dale Marshall of the David Suzuki Foundation said Thursday he is encouraged by some provincial initiatives seen so far, but the premiers have to go further to cut emissions. He says regulation, such as a cap-and-trade program for emissions, is essential to make progress. Members of Canada's Climate Action Network - which is made up of 60 environmental groups - are in Moncton for the annual meeting of the country's premiers. Climate change is one of the key issues for the premiers during their closed-door meetings. While a number of provinces have expressed support for hard caps on emissions, Alberta is staunchly opposed. Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is rejecting a mandatory trading system that is favoured by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. Toby Couture of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick said Canadians want to see the premiers lead on climate change. "Greenhouse gas emissions have increased in Canada by 25 per cent since'90, and have grown in each of the provinces as well," he said. "The federal government seems to have completely abandoned its responsibilities. We need leadership and the provinces can help to provide it." B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and McGuinty have publicly supported establishing a cap-and-trade program among interested provinces, a system that is also being studied by the Atlantic provinces. Under a cap-and-trade system, those provinces participating would set a percentage-based emissions cap that they must meet together. If one of them produces emissions below the cap, it may sell its "excess" to another that produces more than the cap allows. © 2007 Winnipeg Free Press. All Rights Reserved.