On Feb 22nd in the Charlottetown news paper (the Guardian), was a tiny article on Australia's gouvernment planning on banning old-style light bulbs. They plan on phasing out incandescent light bulbs. If this is done and all light bulbs within Australia were replaced with enery-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, they would reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 4 000 000 tonnes by 2012. Doing this would also reduce household power bills by 66%.
Ontario is now looking into being the first Canadian province to follow Australia in banning incandescent light bulbs. Premier Dalton made an estimate that if all old fashioned light bulbs were replaced, it would allow for one power plant to shut down.
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