Sentences with phrase «of tax on carbon»

Almost every idea that might bring us a better future would be made much easier if the cost of fossil fuel was higher — if there was some kind of a tax on carbon emissions that made the price of coal and oil and gas reflect its true environmental cost.»

Again, why do you think capitalism is so frail as to to collapse into ruins with the trivial stress of a tax on carbon emissions?

The primary environmental objective of a tax on carbon is to set a price that reflects the «real» costs such emissions impose — accounting for the damages that are expected to arise from global warming, including effects on agricultural productivity and human health, coastal inundation, and other changes.

Electricite de France SA, Britain's largest generator with eight nuclear plants, may earn as much as 154 million pounds ($ 242 million) of «extra profit» as a result of a tax on carbon - dioxide emissions from 2013, Citigroup Inc. said March 25.

For years there's been talk of a tax on carbon pollution as a way to fight global warming.

Polling by the National Surveys on Energy and Environment, a joint project by the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy and the Institute of Public Opinion at Muhlenberg College, shows that Americans in general (and Republicans in particular) still don't like the idea of a tax on carbon emissions in general.

e360: You've spoken in favor of a tax on carbon as being preferable to a cap - and - trade system.

Even the ones not smart enough to know the science and the implications of it are smart enough to know the world is shifting to some type of tax on carbon.

Not exact matches

The price of crude is on the rise, but in Canada, new carbon taxes, regulations and pipeline hurdles may take the industry permanently out of contention

Williams said the Heritage estimate was correct based on the methodology the foundation used — the analysts estimated a carbon tax rate of $ 36, which would increase by 3 % each year from 2015 to 2035.

Other proposals include a carbon tax on gasoline sales, limiting deductibility of state taxes for businesses by imposing the same caps that now apply to individuals, and taxing generous employer - provided health care plans.

In fact, the irony is that there is a broad consensus in favor of a carbon tax everywhere but on Capitol Hill, where the «T» word is anathema.»

Many of the CEOs» comments were focused on denouncing the Liberals and carbon taxes.

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

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This echoed an earlier proposal by center - right former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to levy a new border tariff on U.S. exports seeking to enter the EU in the event of a Paris withdrawal, as well as a call from the chairman of ArcelorMittal, a major global steel company, for Europe to establish a carbon border tax.

A natural gas bill for a customer from FortisBC, for example, shows that on a gas bill of $ 59.14, the carbon tax was $ 10.28.

Even the Australian government (which ran on the last election of cancelling the carbon tax imposed by the previous socialist government; and they won) have just cancelled all government funding of solar and wind power generation.

The government will also give LNG Canada and other large emitters a break on carbon taxes, if they can meet strict new benchmarks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and will aggressively pursue electrification of natural gas fields.

The carbon footprint of a given barrel of oil over any other was not really on the political map when Chrétien was changing the tax code to finance a mine and Klein was rewriting the royalty regime to make it easier to expand the industry.

Based on what Environment Minister Peter Kent recently told CBC's Evan Solomon, the Tories no longer oppose only the broadest form of carbon tax (as proposed Stéphane Dion is his disastrous 2008 election run as Liberal leader), but also the cap - and - trade option, which use to be in the Conservative platform (it's on page 32 here).

In Alberta and B.C., GST is applied on top of the carbon tax on direct consumer fossil - fuel purchases, such as gasoline, as well as on products where a business has added some or all of the cost of the carbon tax to the cost of their good or service.

For example, Recommendation 5 states «That the federal government reaffirm is already strong commitment to keep taxes low and not impose on Canadians any form of carbon tax that would harm key sectors of the economy, while passing the costs on to Canadian families».

Clark and her government are totally manipulative as they dispense spin to a seemingly gullible public on how great they are for the environment - the current carbon tax of $ 30 a ton has remained frozen for years and recently they have approved a huge LNG project and will no doubt OK the Kinder Morgan pipeline - and there is pretty good chance the good citizens of this province will eat up all the propaganda and vote them back in!

Regardless of whether the fuel source is coal, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or propane the tax doesn't discriminate, levying a $ 30 per tonne charge on emissions from all carbon fuels.

With Liberal leader Stéphane Dion running on a carbon tax plan of his own, it's a good bet that Harper's stump at B.C. pumps will bear an eerie resemblance to James» «Axe the Tax» campaitax plan of his own, it's a good bet that Harper's stump at B.C. pumps will bear an eerie resemblance to James» «Axe the Tax» campaiTax» campaign.

But «if anybody in Canada thinks they are going to get Donald to build a nation of windmills, and turn all America into a bicycle lane or a place for carbon taxes» — in that event, «if they are very, very polite, he'll give them a free ride on Trump Cruise Lines back to where they came from.»

They also propose to introduce a personal income tax rate of 35 % on taxable incomes above $ 250,000; introduce a carbon tax of $ 30 a tonne on July 1, 2015 with about half of the money collected returned in the form of a green tax refund, which would be income tested; and implementing an inheritance tax on estates in excess of $ 5 million.

In a new report released today for Sustainable Prosperity (a new research institute), Jack Mintz and Nancy Olewiler pitch a federal carbon tax constructed by broadening the base of the federal excise tax (which currently raises over $ 5 billion per year based on a tax of 10 cents per litre of gas and 4 cents -LSB-...]

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailBritish Columbia is considering its next steps to fight climate change, and increasing the carbon tax is one of the options on the table.

We also note with concern that the new small business payroll tax comes on top of previously announced minimum wage increase (of 34 % over four years), an increase in the general corporate tax rate of 9.1 %, a 14 % increase to the personal income tax rate of most «skilled professionals», and a previously scheduled increase in the BC carbon tax of 16 %, moving up a further $ 5 to $ 35 per tonne of GHGs emitted.

Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions by 50 percent.

If a consumer is saying that their costs are going up by 4 per cent because of carbon taxes, gas prices, and so on, you have to ignore that as you do your work around trying to set an interest rate.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

The Liberals lost badly in the last election, partly as a result of Mr. Dion's complicated Green Shift plan that would put a tax on carbon.

In the 2008 federal election, Opposition Leader Stéphane Dion also tried but failed to convince the public of the need for a carbon tax, despite Canadians» support for action on climate change.

Canada's coming national price on carbon adds further fuel to the debate, as some will be looking for Canadian industries affected by the carbon price to get protections, maybe even in the form of a carbon tax applied at the border on goods coming from places in the U.S. where there is no such policy.

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

This makes it clearer than ever that any system of carbon pricing, whether based on taxes, caps or some combination of the two, can only be one part of a comprehensive set of policies to achieve climate change goals.

He'd also impose new business taxes, including a carbon tax and a financial transactions tax (a levy on sales of stocks and other securities).

As for the carbon tax, pollster Janet Brown did an extensive poll in Alberta for CBC (there have been many articles on it in the last week on CBC) and one of the interesting findings was that 66 % of Albertan's are still against the carbon tax and want it eliminated.

Even the new Progressive Conservative government of Brian Pallister in Manitoba, elected last year on opposition to a sales tax increase by the previous government, is toying with new taxes, including a carbon tax and higher taxes on insurance products.

Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney probably levelled the silliest criticism of the carbon tax when he tweeted on January 4 a photo of Tesla charging station in Fort Macleod, which was empty.

Together with our preceding report, How To Adopt a Winning Carbon Price, which focused on British Columbia's carbon tax, we've now offered a look «under the hood» of the two major approaches to carbon pricing, and the important lessons offered by each.

Ric McIver was riffing on the by - now familiar point that the NDP govâ $ ™ t was not actually creating jobs but killing them with its new taxes and the threat of royalty rate increases and a carbon tax, e...

Ric McIver was riffing on the by - now familiar point that the NDP gov» t was not actually creating jobs but killing them with its new taxes and the threat of royalty rate increases and a carbon tax, e...

Whether you're concerned with how the cost of the carbon tax affects your family income, or unintended negative consequences of Bill 6 on your agriculture operation; or perhaps the condition of Alberta health care delivery is your priority, regardless, it's important that you let us know.

The carbon tax itself has become punitive to the industries that create the jobs that generate the lion's share of revenues that this province operates on.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]