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Canada Unleashes First Carbon Tax in N. America
2008-04-05 19:39:00 Like this post? Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date. British Columbia will be the first in North America to institute a comprehensive carbon tax on nearly all fossil fuels. It’s a...
By: Green Options
Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 5) - EMISSIONS TRADING AND CARBON TAX.
2008-04-03 16:01:00 Since PA Pundits is a recent addition to my blog reads this is part 5 of this blog series. Be sure to check out the previous posts below. ************ Note the subtle change in the sub heading, from carbon footprint to carbon tax. In the previous piece I mentioned the psychology aspect in distracting you from the real ...
Stop The Carbon Tax
2008-03-12 16:11:00 While Al Gore, Bono, and the United Nations want to place a carbon tax on us, they remain silent about these alternatives: Stop suing people who don’t produce garbage New home construction can use rain harvesting Re-build communities so church... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
By: Cheapo Groovo
Time for a Carbon Tax, Says Toyota
2008-03-11 03:14:00 Summary: "The trust of a simulacre obstruction bequeath have to be revisited if Prime Minister Helen Clarke's chimera of a carbon-neutral scepter is to wax a reality, according to Toyota New Zealand's executive chairman Bob Field.He said that with all political parties now supporting sustainability, the photograph difficulty should be live fetch on the agenda. "Corrective and collective spirit is extravagant tardy if we are serious about reducing carbon emissions." Field was speaking at the launch of the hybrid Lexus RX400h, the luxury petrol-electric all-wheel-drive sports utility vehicle, priced at $99,050. He said most New Zealanders recognised and supported the need to take action on climate change.'The time could therefore be right for red-letter a image responsibility at the relating fling as reducing company and personal income tax so the whole exercise would be fiscally neutral.'Field and single executives in the automotive striving are pushing for a simulacrum clog at f...
Corporate Carbon Tax
2008-01-13 16:39:00 Global Warming is indeed at the palm of our hands and apparently to be able to do something about it lies heavily on every being living in this earth. We are responsible for making the whole global warming issue a serious one. Now we find ourselves scrambling for opportunities to ensure that our world does ...
GOVERNMENT SAYS NO TO CARBON TAX
2008-01-08 11:58:00 Mike De Souza, CanWest Headlines Service OTTAWA ? A Harper supervision deserted an advisory panel?s letter of reference to exercise a CO taxation upon Monday whilst a rivals non-stop a doorway to a thought in reply to recommendation which a levy could lead a proceed to low cuts in hothouse gas emissions from Canada. The National Turn ...
By: Global Warming
Carbon Tax: We Need To Save Us From Ourselves
2008-01-06 04:45:00 If you see this man, stop him. Don’t let him make any decisions for himself. He is incapable of independent thought, self-control, or forbearance. He will likely be seen eating glass, looking at the sun, or snorting Ajax. You see, none of these activities is taxed, so he will engage in ...
By: Dreadnaught
A Carbon Tax, the Arts and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
2007-12-13 23:26:00 There is a point where ideology can exceed common sense, and one might wonder if that is happening with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.One month ago Maureen Bader, BC director of the CTF, came out against arts funding stating that government subsidies to the arts should be abolished. Bader sees the arts as business activity, but it is more appropriate to compare investment in the arts with investment in things like parks and recreation. Perhaps Bader isn't aware of the difference between investments and subsidies.According to a 2001-02 Statistics Canada report, with an investment of $6.8 billion from three levels of government, the arts and culture sector directly employed 740,000 people and generated $26 billion for the economy. I'm sure Bader doesn't want to hurt our economy, so it might be that she just doesn't understand the concept of EROI (economic return on investment).Then Maureen Bader misrepresented carbon taxes while making fun of global warming 'theorists' .Pove...
Carbon Tax To Be Imposed On Newborns?
2007-12-12 16:15:00 Carbon Offender In Action More news from the goofy yet frightening folks over at The Church of Global Warming™ A West Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus “baby levy” at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child. Writing in today’s Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child’s lifetime. Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and “greenhouse-friendly̶-1; services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits. And he implied the Federal Government should ditch the $4133 baby bonus and consider population controls like those in China and India. [source] I wonder if Professor Barry Walters has any children ...
Michael Bloomberg Calls for National Carbon Tax?Is There a Meaning to Him S
2007-11-03 00:57:00 Michael Bloomberg has spoken in favor of a national carbon tax, raising the question of whether he remains interested in running for president as an independent. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg plans today to announce his support for a national carbon tax. In what his aides are calling one of the most significant policy addresses of his ...
By: Liberal Values
Cap-and-Trade vs Carbon Tax
2007-10-26 16:46:00 The US is debating which way to go: Cap-and-Trade vs Carbon Tax. According to this Christian Science Monitor article: A tax on carbon to cool the planet: Cap-and-Trade: “may put the US on a knowable track to, say, an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. But the flaws in cap-and-trade plans as experienced in other ...
By: Carson's Post
Red, Green and Blue: Dingell Calls for Carbon Tax
2007-10-02 21:27:00 Since taking control of Congress last fall, the Democrats have (justifiably) taken a lot of flak for being spineless, but Rep. John D. Dingell’s (D, Michigan) recent proposal for a national...
By: Green Options
Carbon Tax: an economist's answer to Global Warming
2007-09-21 00:00:00 Gregory Mankiw, professor of economics at Harvard, spells out the only real way to bring down the consumption of carbon, which is the only way we're going to avert the loom climate crisis: In the debate over global climate change,...
Carbon Tax: A Simple and Efficient Way to Fight Global Warming
2007-07-11 02:19:00 Global warming is a serious threat to not only the United States of America, but to humanity as a whole. If the Earth heats to the dangerous level it is expected to, more than our national security is at stake. But the homeland will come under fire if something is not done to slow global warming. Droughts are becoming increasingly common, as are heat waves. The fight for water in poorer nations, such as those in Africa, is only aggravating conflicts there. As we saw around the turn of the century, countries in turmoil spawn frustrated, angry people that can turn in die-hard terrorists willing to do anything. Global warming has to be slowed.Placing a small carbon tax on emissions will not amount to much to the average consumer, but it will to big emitters. They will realize that they must invest in renewable energy or nuclear power. Carbon taxes are one flat tax that is predictable and easy to implement. And the tax revenue, which will be a decent amount, can be used for research int...
No Danger in Implementing a Carbon Tax
2007-06-21 02:18:00 Fighting global warming with a carbon tax would cause virtually no negative economic impact in first two years and offer an economic boost thereafter.At $50, a carbon tax would shave about $4.8-billion from Canada's GDP in 2010, which works out to about 0.09 per cent of GDP. However by 2020, the impact would become slightly positive for the economy, working out to a 0.004 per cent increase to the GDP.That is the result of an internal report prepared for the Conservative government, and obtained by Green Party Leader Elizabeth May through an access to information request. The report was written by economist Mark Jaccard and analyzes the potential impacts of various climate change measures on Canada's GDP including carbon taxes ranging from $10 to $250. If you're not familiar with Mark Jaccard, you should be. He is one of the world's foremost experts specializing in energy related issues and policy. Jaccard's also been a vocal advocate for the development of a sustainable ener...
As president, Chris Dodd would enact Corporate Carbon Tax
2007-04-20 15:09:00 Filed under: Etc., Green Culture, Legislation and Policy Chris Dodd is the first presidential candidate to support a carbon tax. David Roberts at Grist read through Dodd’s energy speech from yesterday and found a firm stand on not only expanding a cap and trade bill but enacting a corporate carbon tax. “An America that taxes the ... |
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