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NDP Offers Tax Breaks, Subsidies to Attract B.C.’s Single Largest Carbon...
The B.C. government unveiled a new natural gas development plan Thursday in an attempt to trigger a final investment deal with LNG Canada, the proponents of B.C.’s largest proposed liquefied natural...
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‘It’s Very Misleading’: Energy Experts Critique Canada’s Rosy Carbon Pricing...
Earlier this week, the federal government published a bombshell report on carbon pricing, predicting that a nationwide price of $50 per tonne by 2022 will cut emissions by 80 to 90 million tonnes of...
View ArticleIf Doug Ford is serious about ‘polluter pay’ he should keep cap-and-trade in...
We’re a few weeks past what was a roller-coaster of an election in Ontario, ushering the Progressive Conservative party into power and placing the New Democrats as the official opposition, being sworn...
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What the Trudeau government’s scaling back of the carbon tax means
Far from the giddy days following the Paris Agreement, Canada’s carbon tax has recently run into strong headwinds — despite recent polling that shows a majority of the public is on board. The tax is...
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Ontario watchdog urged to investigate political advertising by oilpatch...
Ontario’s electoral watchdog has been asked to probe whether Canada’s largest oil and gas lobby group broke the law during the recent election campaign. Two organizations recently filed a formal...
View ArticleNewfoundland’s carbon tax gives ‘free pass’ to offshore oil industry
After months of secrecy — and a few vague threats to withdraw from carbon pricing altogether — the provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador has finally unveiled its federally approved climate...
View ArticleCanada obliged to protect future generations from climate change, test case...
When the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan publicly squared off in court in Regina this month over the constitutionality of a federally imposed carbon tax, a lesser organization was quietly...
View ArticleHow real is Andrew Scheer’s ‘real plan’ to tackle climate change?
It’s 11,000 words on 60 pages, teems with glossy colour photographs and begins with a request to “consider the environment before printing this document.” Last week, federal Conservative party leader...
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Canada’s major parties on all things environment, explained
Environmental issues are top-of-mind for more Canadians than ever before in this year’s election. It’s an important issue to Canadians in every riding — and the parties know it. In a Forum Research...
View ArticleWhat a Liberal minority government means for Canada’s environment
Well, well, well, the dust has settled (kind of) and Canada has a Liberal minority government. Wait, what exactly is a minority government? Here’s how it works: there are 338 seats in Canada’s House of...
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Where new Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole stands on climate change, carbon...
In his acceptance speech in the early hours of Monday morning, new federal Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole promised his party would be ready for an election as early as this fall. What he didn’t say...
View ArticleWhat good is the Constitution if it can’t protect us from climate change?
Constitutional law isn’t top of mind for many Canadians. But curtailing climate change in order to put the brakes on another public health crisis is. That’s why this week’s Supreme Court of Canada...
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So there’s going to be a fall election in B.C.: has the NDP kept its...
B.C.’s NDP government came to power in 2017 promising to protect the environment. “[Former Premier] Christy Clark and the BC Liberals have chosen to pit jobs against the environment,” the party’s...
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B.C. eyes opportunities to secure emissions credits for ‘lower carbon’ LNG,...
The B.C. government is looking at a suite of the province’s natural resources — including liquefied natural gas — that could be marketed globally as “clean” products in an effort “to create new markets...
View ArticleCanada’s Supreme Court rules carbon price constitutional. Here’s what you...
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal government’s national price on carbon pollution is entirely constitutional, putting an end to a two-year battle with...
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