The David Suzuki foundation recently published an overview of how carbon taxes and a cap and trade system would work and how it would benefit the environment as well as individual Canadians. The article can be found on their web site. Follow the link called “Pricing Carbon”.
For those who find themselves confused about what exactly […]

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From the office building I work in there is a good 360 degree view of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick. Looking out the east side of the building you can see the Irving Oil Refinery. In front of the refinery you can see the Irving Paper plant. To the right you see the […]

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The New Brunswick government has announced another wind project for the province. This one is a 99 Megawatt project to built at Caribou Mountain near Bathurst.

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The government of British Columbia has implemented a carbon tax of $10 per tonne of carbon emissions, increasing to $30 per tonne by 2012. For gasoline, this works out to about 2.4 cents per litre. For home heating fuel about 2.8 cents. This is the first consumer carbon tax in North America.

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