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Montreal Mirror : The Front Page : Environment |
 | | Montreal may be considered a backwater by some among the dizzying heights of high finance, but it may also become a trailblazer in a new field of public exchanges. |
 | | In Chicago, with its 200-member exchange, the right to pump one tonne of carbon dioxide into the air trades for about $5, says Léon Bitton, the vice-president of research and development at the Montreal Exchange; in Europe, with its 12,000 members, it costs about 20 euros (around $29). |
 | | But whatever the federal government decides to do, says the Montreal Exchange’s Bitton, they should be ready to roll six months after the feds outline the “made in Canada” approach. |
| www.montrealmirror.com /2006/080306/news_climate.html (754 words) |
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