Private sector throws support behind Wynne on climate change
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Ontario seeks input on climate change strategy, carbon pricing
Feb 12, 2015 4:34 PM ET
The Ontario government is looking for public input on its climate change strategy, as it weighs whether to implement a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax.
A 45-day consultation period will see town hall meetings held across the province and people can give feedback online and through social media.
The government says the discussion paper will inform the government's decision — expected to come this spring — on which carbon pricing mechanism to adopt.
The Liberal government committed to carbon pricing in 2008 when it signed the Western Climate Initiative with California and Quebec, which have since created a joint cap-and-trade system.
Ontario could adopt a cap-and-trade system that lets the worst polluters buy credits from companies that burn less fossil fuels, or impose a tax on all carbon emissions, including gasoline burned by automobiles.
Environment Minister Glen Murray would not commit to making a carbon pricing plan revenue neutral for the government.
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/tor...mate-change-strategy-carbon-pricing-1.2955165
Feb 12, 2015 4:34 PM ET
The Ontario government is looking for public input on its climate change strategy, as it weighs whether to implement a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax.
A 45-day consultation period will see town hall meetings held across the province and people can give feedback online and through social media.
The government says the discussion paper will inform the government's decision — expected to come this spring — on which carbon pricing mechanism to adopt.
The Liberal government committed to carbon pricing in 2008 when it signed the Western Climate Initiative with California and Quebec, which have since created a joint cap-and-trade system.
Ontario could adopt a cap-and-trade system that lets the worst polluters buy credits from companies that burn less fossil fuels, or impose a tax on all carbon emissions, including gasoline burned by automobiles.
Environment Minister Glen Murray would not commit to making a carbon pricing plan revenue neutral for the government.
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/tor...mate-change-strategy-carbon-pricing-1.2955165
Didn't you hear?.. The UN/IPCC have conclusively determined that infinite money transfers and eco-taxes are the only way to stop global warming.
Fact
Warming is on hiatus. Fact! Didn't anyone bother to tell that to Wynne or the rest of the gullible.
In all fairness to Mr. Wynne, if she were to call it an idiot tax on the gullible, a lot fewer people would be supportive of the move.
Rebates won't pay for the billion dollar boondoggle of the Wynne gvt.
Besides, that what Liberals do, tax and spend like drunken sailors
* Apologies in advance to all sailors for comparing them to Liberals
Besides, that what Liberals do, tax and spend like drunken sailors
* Apologies in advance to all sailors for comparing them to Liberals
That horrific Provincial debt and pathetic credit rating won't be going away if he already has plans on selling Crown assets, increasing the cost of living and spending on Social crap.
What are his plans to fill the 10gW energy shortfall private operations can't deliver and is desperately needed by industry?
The sky is indeed falling.
Maybe SaskPower should build coal plants with state of the art carbon capture in ON? We're still booming and don't have a carbon tax to drag us down.
What are his plans to fill the 10gW energy shortfall private operations can't deliver and is desperately needed by industry?
The sky is indeed falling.
Maybe SaskPower should build coal plants with state of the art carbon capture in ON? We're still booming and don't have a carbon tax to drag us down.
Duh! Why wouldn't they? They lost their shirts in 08 and still have obligations and liabilities.
Make them walk to California for their fresh produce. The rich can take their tesslas. Can't have big ugly trucks putting carbon into their delicate little lungs.
What business wouldn't want a law that gives them the right to fleece the public?
It also strikes me as a no-win law. Business which would be hurt by it will leave -- goto another province or another country. Those that are helped by it will enjoy the corporate welfare by the Lieberals on the backs of the taxpayer.
Big Business likes heavy environmental regulation because it places smaller competitors at a comparative disadvantage.