Sentences with phrase «on carbon taxes»

But currently the debate is focused on carbon taxes and cap - and - trade systems.

Again, unless «conservatives» are willing to sell out, there's no point in forming a left - right coalition on carbon taxes.

And relying only on a carbon tax, with no R&D subsidies in the mix, would be equivalent to a 1.9 percent annual drop in consumption.

On the carbon tax front, a 2nd substitute version of the carbon tax bill has just come out (find it here).

But is he also right about their differences on carbon tax and climate change?

, shows that Coyne took «oppose» positions on both carbon tax bills on behalf of his «client» ExxonMobil (see

The restructuring of the federal climate regime was announced to government employees before the election — widely viewed as a referendum on the carbon tax — and a spokesman for the new coalition confirmed that the plan was still on track.

It would be interesting to see if Exxon took any position on the carbon taxes in Alberta and British Columbia (I didn't find anything after a brief search).

A disclosure form filed by lobbyist William J. Coyne, Jr., shows that Coyne took «oppose» positions on both carbon tax bills on behalf of his «client» ExxonMobil (see here for an overview of Massachusetts lobbying law).

There are two basic problems with this approach, the first of which is that all price rises will be blamed on the carbon tax and you will never convince voters that prices are lower than they were «before» or that the government compensation will cover the extra outlays.

Brier Dudley's imaginative take on carbon taxes makes for good reading, but if this were an Econ 101 paper, it'd receive an F for lousy analysis and cherry - picked data.

AUSTRALIANS have turned on the carbon tax, with almost two - thirds of people opposed to pricing greenhouse gas emissions and an overwhelming majority backing Coalition plans to unravel the policy.

Read more analysis by RFF experts on a carbon tax — Considering a US Carbon Tax: Economic Analysis and Dialogue on Carbon Pricing Options.

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.

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» campaign.

Don MacIntyre, Wildrose MLA for Innisfail - Sylvan Lake, sidelined his party's attack on the carbon tax as a «tax on everything» when he dove into climate change denying rhetoric during a January 2, 2017 press conference at the Legislature.

The NDP's deception on their carbon tax is not only the biggest tax increase in the history of Alberta, it's also the biggest political lie told to Albertans.

She imposed a five - year freeze on the carbon tax, refuses to use carbon tax revenue to fund climate solutions, exempted the LNG industry from calculating greenhouse gas emissions on 70 per cent of its operations, cancelled a home retrofit program, and derailed public transit expansion plans with a built - to - fail referendum.

For more information see the ACCC's SCAMwatch webpage on carbon tax compensation payments.

So bring on the carbon tax, lower other taxes, and we shall muddle through, and Jim Hansen's 20 years shall not be spent in vain.

Visiting Australia's most marginal seat, Corangamite in Victoria's south - west, Mr Abbott said the Gillard Government would be punished at the next election for misleading the nation on the carbon tax.

So the new left fixation on a carbon tax is at least facially peculiar, since, it seems to me, the policy issues from classically neoliberal instincts.

«Optimal policy,» they found, «relies less on a carbon tax, and even more so on a direct encouragement of clean energy technologies.»

The board provides recommendations to the Governor, JCCPO, and the legislature regarding the implementation and impact of the act with a focus on the carbon tax impacts and avoiding inequitable effects on citizens and energy intensive trade exposed businesses.

Foreign policy experts say the Keystone could have been used to forge a grand, cross-border bargain to jointly address climate change — a bargaining chip toward agreements on carbon taxes, cap - and - trade regimes, or other comprehensive approaches.

After the python jerky speech, I next tried to sell my conservative Toastmaster friends on a carbon tax.

CarbonWA's fortunes were not helped when, in September 2015, Bauman made impolitic comments to conservative economist Greg Mankiw, who quoted him in a piece on carbon taxes in the New York Times:

Bipartisanship on carbon taxes means co-ownership of U.S. economic decline.

Actually, I don't want to get into a long thread on carbon taxes (Richmond's in front of Sydney), but my main point of difference is that you assume that any carbon price is necessarily a significant burden on an economy, but what if carbon pricing is part of a broader tax reform agenda with a shift in taxes from, say, income and company taxes to carbon pricing?

Uncritical media coverage of Rex Tillerson's record on the carbon tax issue has lulled some, apparently including cleantech guru Elon Musk, into a false sense of security as the former ExxonMobil's CEO seeks to become our next Secretary of State.

In the meantime, climate change advocates (who also happen to be major investors) like former Vice President Al Gore stand to rake in billions on carbon taxes in the name of saving the planet.

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.

James, thank you for clarifying your position on carbon taxes vs. EPA greenhouse gas regulations.