Sentences with phrase «first tax on carbon»

Likewise, environmentalists in British Columbia, which enacted the first tax on carbon dioxide emissions in North America two years ago, are incensed that Vancouver has blossomed into a major coal loading location.

Australia is close to enacting its first tax on carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

At 7 p.m. People of Albany United for Safe Energy sponsors a forum on putting a price on climate change through a carbon tax or fee to make polluters pay for the air pollution they emit, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 405 Washington Ave., Albany.

Floridians will decide on a contentious solar energy measure, and Washington may pass the country's first carbon tax

Hansen wrote ``... In my testimony [to Congress] I noted that a «Cap» raises the price of energy, just as does a simple honest carbon tax on oil, gas and coal at the first sale at the mine or port of entry.

Since the bill was first mooted, environmentalists, industry and academia have weighed in on the pros and cons of the tax, which will take a hybrid carbon tax and credits form.

The nation's first state ballot measure to impose a carbon tax on fossil fuels failed Tuesday on a crowded slate of statewide initiatives in Washington.

On the first criterion, Weitzman points out that while a carbon tax is more easily administered and more transparent than a cap - and - trade system, a carbon cap or a tax can both achieve cost - effective emissions reductions.

On November 8, voters in the Evergreen State rejected by a nearly 3 - to - 2 margin what would have been the nation's first statewide carbon tax.

First, CCL's goal is a federal tax on carbon.

It's likely the first of many such deals by Claudia Cattaneo You know Canadian competitiveness is in big trouble when even investors in renewable energy — favoured by Canadian governments through subsidies, plus carbon taxes and regulatory overload on competing fossil - fuel energy — are leaving because they like lower U.S. taxes even more.

It seemed a stunning reversal when his government's February 2007 speech from the throne declared a four - part war on climate change to include North America's first broad - based revenue - neutral carbon tax, mandatory public sector carbon neutrality and plans for participation in a regional cap and trade system.

Washington residents will vote on the nation's first carbon tax.

On November 8, Washington will vote on the nation's first revenue - neutral carbon taOn November 8, Washington will vote on the nation's first revenue - neutral carbon taon the nation's first revenue - neutral carbon tax.

Why on Earth would the left oppose the first and biggest carbon tax in the country?

The November 8 election also saw the defeat of an initiative in Washington State that would have imposed the nation's first revenue - neutral carbon tax, assessing a $ 25 - per - ton fee on carbon dioxide emitted in the electricity, transportation, and other sectors and then using that revenue to reduce the state sales tax.

You want to spend trillions on carbon taxes, ruin people's lives, and destroy the economies of first world democracies to lower future temps by 1 tenth of 1 degree, which will be more than offset by increased emissions from emerging 3rd world economies?

This was one of world's first the first economy - wide taxes on combusted carbon emissions and has been widely praised.

That's what two men named David thought, too, when they first met in 2008 to talk about a climate policy with very little support: a national tax on industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

Friedman kept the pressure on in 2007, with The First Energy President («It means asking Americans to do some hard things [including] accepting a gasoline or carbon tax,» Jan. 5), and (A Warning From the Garden, Jan. 19):

This is where the first carbon tax in North America was introduced, and where the provincial Liberal government won reelection on a carbon tax platform.

A whole good idea would be to make a payroll - tax holiday the first step in an orderly transition to scrapping the payroll tax altogether and replacing the lost revenue with a package of levies on things that, unlike jobs, we want less rather than more of — things like pollution, carbon emissions, oil imports, inefficient use of energy and natural resources, and excessive consumption.

Though it is very unlikely that any tax would ever be used to reduce another, a direct carbon excise tax on fossil fuel emissions at first does seem to make sense.

Not waiting for national legislation to set a price on carbon and kickstart the journey to a low - carbon future, Montgomery County, Maryland has enacted one the country's first carbon taxes.

One of the jurisdictions furthest ahead on this curve in Canada is British Columbia, whose Liberal government recently introduced the first carbon tax in the country.