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U.S. promoting 'North American' climate change plan

State Department says 3 governments join to address environmental issue

Posted: May 01, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

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The U.S. State Department has announced a "North American" plan to attack so-called "climate change ," releasing a statement in praise of a continental effort to "phase down" hydrofluorocarbons.

The federal bureaucracy today announced: "This North American amendment proposal calls on all countries to take action to reduce their consumption and production of HFCs, with developed countries taking the lead in this effort, as they have consistently under the Montreal Protocol."

The announcement, referencing "The United States, Canada and Mexico," and described as a "joint effort," recalls concerns raised in recent years over movement toward a European Union-style "North American Union."

As WND reported, the concept traces to an idea promoted by the Council on Foreign Relations and sold to President Bush as a means of increasing commerce and business.

Thomas d’Aquino, CEO and president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives – the Canadian counterpart to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, confirmed in an interview published in Canada that CFR was the prime mover in establishing the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP.

Published by the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, the d’Aquino interview verifies that the creation of the SPP was not a "conspiracy theory" but a well-thought-out North American integration plan launched by his organization, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, along with the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States.

D'Aquino said President Obama wants to continue North American integration under the renamed North American Leaders Summit, provided the North American Competitiveness Council can be recast to include more environmentalists and union leaders.

In the interview, d'Aquino traced the origin of SPP to his concerns, following the terrorist attacks on 9/11, that "there was a pressing need to keep the border open for commerce while simultaneously addressing the security needs of the United States and North America as a whole."

With this goal in mind, d'Aquino explained that the CCCE by 2003 had "launched an agenda that we called the North American Security and Prosperity Initiative, or NASPI."

As WND reported in July 2007, the term "Security and Prosperity" was first used by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives in a January 23, 2003, report titled "Security and Prosperity: Toward a New Canada-United States Partnership in North America."

Then, in 2003, d'Aquino brought the idea to Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

"I helped convince Richard Haass at the Council on Foreign Relations that we should put together a trilateral task force to look at the future of North America," d'Aquino said. "We recruited John Manley on Canada's side, along with William Weld, former governor of Massachusetts, and Pedro Aspe, the former Mexican economy minister, who had been so influential in promoting NAFTA."

The result was a CFR Task Force on the Future of North America created on Oct. 15, 2004, and chaired by Manley, Weld and Aspe, precisely as d'Aquino had recommended to Haass.

The CFR Task Force on the Future of North America issued an executive summary, "Creating a North American Community," that was issued March 14, 2005, just days before the March 23, 2005, trilateral summit at Waco, Texas. At that meeting, President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Mexican President Vicente Fox declared the Security and Prosperity Partnership on their own authority, without any approval from the U.S. Congress.

The final task force report, "Building a North American Community," was issued in March 2005, immediately following the Waco summit. (Read highlights of the controversial 59-page CFR report – including calls for increased financial aid to Mexico, the creation of a security border perimeter around all of North America, a reduction in border security between the U.S. and Mexico, and the creation of a new North American tribunal to settle disputes.)

Now the new announcement from the State Department, which declined to respond to a WND request for comment, casts the plan for reducing "climate change" dangers as a continental proposal.

It specifies that the movement follows Obama's call during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen last year for nations to work on emissions issues.

"If adopted, [the amendment] would bolster multilateral efforts to reduce global emissions 50 percent by 2050. Together with our partners Canada and Mexico, the United States believes that global action on HFCs is needed and that the Montreal Protocol provides an established, effective and efficient instrument for tackling this problem," the announcement said.

It also raises the prospect of higher costs for consumers, since a phaseout of hydrochlorofluorcarbons to address concerns about loss of ozone in the atmosphere is forcing industrial interests in air conditioning and refrigeration supplies to turn to HFCs.

But the HFCs now are considered to be 10,000 times worse, according to analysts, than carbon dioxide as an alleged cause of "climate change."

The State Department said cutting down on the use of the product thought to enhance "climate change," which replaced a product thought to damage ozone levels, "will incentivize the adoption of alternatives with reduced impact."

The proposal reportedly will be on the agenda when the participants in the Montreal Protocol meet in Uganda in November for further discussions.

When Obama took office, he faced pressure to discontinue the effort. But D'Aquino argued that the NACC should continue, and, as WND has reported, the Obama administration is continuing the previous administration's pursuit of North American integration.

"But at the North American Leaders Summit in Guadalajara last summer, President Calderon and Prime Minister Harper both told President Obama that the NACC was very useful," d'Aquino said. "In fact, the Canadian NACC group met with our prime minister and his key ministers for an hour and a half on the eve of his departure for the Guadalajara summit. He said that, regardless of whether the NACC continues formally on a trilateral basis, he welcomes our advice on trilateral issues."

WND has regularly reported that the unannounced goal of the SPP was to create a North American Union by advancing the trade integration realized in NAFTA into continental political integration through the creation of some 20 trilateral bureaucratic working groups and the North American Competitiveness Council, composed of 30 North American business executives hand-picked, 10 each by the Chambers of Commerce of the three countries.

The Obama administration is continuing the SPP initiative under the rebranded and refocused banner of the less controversially renamed North American Leaders Summit that first met with Obama in Guadalajara, Mexico, last August.

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