A long term climate change strategy report issued by the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy will be unveiled and is expected to include recommendations for carbon taxes.
The Conference Board of Canada joins other supporters for tougher measures than what the Federal Climate Plan proposed. A report released yesterday calls for all Canadian companies and individuals to pay a hefty price for greenhouse gas emissions. The suggested price starts from $25 per tonne, and should continue to rise.
Stéphane Dion is poised to unveil a carbon-tax scheme and attempt to neutralize any political damage by offering corresponding personal income tax cuts of between $10-billion and $13-billion to working Canadians, senior Liberal sources say.
The Liberal Leader wants this major environmental policy to be the centrepiece of the party’s election campaign platform, according to the sources, and is anxious to reveal it this summer to give Canadians a chance to digest the idea before a federal election.
One of the privileges we share with a strong Prime Minister is being free to think beyond the utterances of ambitious ministers. There are good reasons for both Stephen Harper and ordinary Canadians to not endorse Environment Minister John Baird’s dismissal of “Stéphane Dion’s 50-cent-a-litre carbon tax.” In fact, giving the idea space to breathe may serve the environment and the Prime Minister’s conservative principles.
National Post
An excellent overview of the different carbon trading systems around the world, and within Canada. Includes focus on different potential strategies for Canada’s future in accounting for carbon usage.
The Tyee
Part one of a three part series in The Tyee that will address some of the issues surrounding climate change policy in BC, which has made radical changes in recent weeks. This edition focuses on some of the concerns voiced by environmental groups about the initiative’s incomplete consulting on the issue, and some of the weaker areas of the policy.
Globe and Mail
Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the idea crazy, and the reaction of big business was mixed, but the votes that matter for Stéphane Dion and his new Green Plan exist on the other end of the political spectrum.
The Liberal Leader staked his political future Thursday on a controversial plan that, experts say, is an effort to win support on the splintered left. The plan, which balances $15-billion in carbon taxes with an equivalent cut in income taxes, will be a main plank in an election campaign that at least some Liberals now believe will come in the fall.
Globe and Mail
Article discusses the response of BC to the new carbon tax, put into action today. Highlights some of the many problems associated with implementing the kind of social and political changes that will bring real reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Globe and Mail
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, responding to criticisms of the federal Liberal green plan by northern premiers, is calling for an end to a dependence on diesel fuel in the North.
“It’s time we stopped having diesel-dependent communities,” he said on Thursday. He had been asked for his view on suggestions by Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie that the green-shift plan proposed by federal Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion would hurt the diesel-dependent territories.