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Climate Change * Canada - Expert urges slower drivers, not carbon taxes
Reducing the speed limit along the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick would cut down on pollution and help to curb excessive fuel consumption patterns without the financial sting of a carbon tax
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Times & Transcript, by MARC HUDON -9 July 2008: -- ... Transportation activity has been a major source of pollution in Canada, accounting for 33 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions since 1990, according to Statistics Canada data... "If people had to slow down a little bit it would immediately cut down on our greenhouse gas emissions," said Julie Michaud of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick... The posted speed limit along New Brunswick's portion of the national highway system is 110 km/h while the maximum speed allowed along most other sections of the Trans-Canada Highway is set at 100 km/h... Michaud said more tangible solutions to limit carbon emissions are needed to reduce greenhouse gases such as the proposed cap-and trade agreement between Quebec and Ontario... She said the gas tax scheme proposed by the New Brunswick government doesn't limit emissions, adding drivers -- and other carbon emitters -- can continue to pollute as long as they're willing to pay for fuel...
* Anti-carbon tax crusader
Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada -The Asian Pacific Post, by Lucy-Claire Saunders -July 09 2008: -- Usually a $500 gift from the government is welcomed with large smiles and open arms. But not this time. Not for Joginder Mander... The retired Surrey sawmill worker, along with his wife and three children, have sent their carbon tax refunds back to Victoria... The carbon tax — a provincial tax on carbon-based fuels including gasoline, diesel, natural gas and home heating fuel — will rise $5 a tonne for the next four years until it hits $30 per tonne in 2012... To soften the economic blow to British Columbians, the government gave a $100 climate action dividend to each resident at the end of June... Mander says the government is handing out a pittance with one hand and raking in the dough with the other... Because of the carbon tax, diesel prices in B.C. are now three times higher than in Alberta and almost twice as much as prices in other provinces... The trucking industry will carry an excessive portion of the tax load, says B.C. Trucking Association president Paul Landry... Landry says the average long-haul owner-operator will pay $1,000 in carbon taxes in 2008, about $3,000 in 2010, and $6,000 in 2012, driving up the cost of any good requiring transport... Will the carbon tax actually encourage people to conserve when it already costs $100 to fill a tank? For many drivers in Metro Vancouver, that’s exactly where the $100 rebate is going — into the gas tank... But not for Mander... "Really, all you are doing is putting the average taxpayer into poverty," he wrote, in the four-page letter he stapled to the cheques he returned to Premier Gordon Campbell...
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