Entries Categorized as 'Environmental Policy'

Pricing Carbon

Date March 8, 2008

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”.
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BC Gets a Carbon Tax

Date March 3, 2008

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.