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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.