Sentences with phrase «subsidizing big polluters»

VICTORIA — New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming is outlining a new vision for the Pacific Carbon Trust which would end the practise of subsidizing big polluters using funds taken from schools and hospitals.

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

VANCOUVER — New Democrat leader Adrian Dix is calling on the Liberals to immediately fix the Pacific Carbon Trust and end the Liberal practice of taking money from schools and hospitals and using it to subsidize big polluters like Encana.