Carbon pricing

As long as Canada continues to underwrite the oil and gas industry, it cannot make meaningful progress on the economic transformation needed to address climate change.

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Canada

Carbon pricing

Tar Sands

Countries finally agreed to create an international carbon market. Here’s why it’s controversial.

10/12/21

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Emily Pontecorvo

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Grist

Nov. 30, 2021

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Carbon pricing

Climate Change

Global

Energy Dead-Ends: Green Lies, Climate Change and Chaotic Transitions

28/11/21

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Andrew Nikiforuk

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University of Victoria

Clink here to view video of the lecture by Andrew Nikiforuk at UVIC on Nov 17, 2021.

[Web page editor: Particularly useful is the critique of 'green' technological 'solutions', e.g., see from about minute 23 to minute 42.]

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Tax the rich, save the planet

10/11/21

Author:

Adrienne Tanner

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National Observer

Rev. David Haslam, a Methodist anti-poverty and tax justice crusader at a side event to the UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 8. Photo by Adrienne Tanner / Canada's National Observer

November 9th 2021

Rev. David Haslam, a well-known British human rights and tax justice firebrand, has this little joke he tells. “I am really worried about the souls of the wealthy.”

“If we are going to save their souls, we’re going to have to take some money off them.”

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The Overrated Promise of a Carbon Tax

10/11/21

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Anis Chowdhury, Jomo Kwame Sundaram

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Common Dreams

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B.C. moves from leader to follower with new climate plan

29/10/21

Author:

Seth Klein

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National Observer

Premier John Horgan released his government’s CleanBC Roadmap to 2030 this week, but Seth Klein is not impressed. Photo via Province of British Columbia / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

October 27th 2021

This week, as governments prepare to head off to Glasgow, Scotland, for the UN’s COP26 climate negotiations, the B.C. government released the long-awaited update to its provincial climate plan, dubbed its “CleanBC Roadmap to 2030.”

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Pricing carbon: Canada’s ‘carbon tax’ versus international gas taxes

01/10/21

Author:

Barry Saxifrage

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National Observer

Tailpipe emissions - Surging tailpipe emissions are driving climate failure in Canada. Photo by Ruben de Rijcke / Wikimedia

Oct. 1, 2021

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People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons - book review

23/05/21

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Elaine Graham-Leigh

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Counterfire

Dawson’s People’s Power argues for localised renewable infrastructure, but central, collective and democratic planning is what is needed, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Capitalism

Carbon pricing

Energy

Liberals' Climate Plan Won’t Deliver on Canada’s Paris Targets

20/04/21

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Primary Autor - Mitchell Beer

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The Energy Mix

Downtown Toronto - George Socka/Wikimedia Commons

Apr. 19, 2021

Two veteran public interest researchers have come up with a troubling equation they say is at the heart of the federal government’s climate strategy: Carbon Pricing + Hydrogen + Carbon Capture + Nuclear = Paris 2030 and beyond.

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Carbon pricing

Dawson’s People’s Power argues for localised renewable infrastructure, but central, collective and democratic planning is what is needed, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh.

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