Is Harper Taking McGuinty’s Hit on the Environment?

I admit I know next to nothing about Ontario provincial politics.

But riddle me this: if Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty committed to shutting down coal-fired power plants by 2007, then the Federal Liberals with Dion as Environment Minister must have factored this into their attempts to keep the Kyoto Protocol goals.

However, since McGuinty (a Liberal) has obviously failed to keep his promise and has now pushed back the closure until 2014 (and there’s still no plan in place for actually replacing the energy), are the Federal Conservatives to be blamed if Canada can’t keep the Kyoto Protocol (though by many accounts they never could, even had McGuinty kept his promise)?

We already know that Dion blames the Conservatives for the reality that Canada won’t meet the Kyoto targets.  But whose fault is it really, especially as evidence mounts that the Federal Liberals knew well before the 2006 election that the Kyoto targets were unachievable?