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Offline wilber

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Re: The Wreck of BC
« Reply #810 on: April 20, 2018, 10:22:56 am »
Implementing carbon taxes, additional taxes on heavy users of fossil fuel energy,  investing in green energy technologies, subsidizing consumer purchase of low energy\green products, ensuring any additional extraction and movement of fossil fuels is as earth-friendly as possible and gradually reducing those sources as green alternatives become more available.  It seems to me that this is already occuring, more or less, although I might be pushing a little harder against fossil fuels and for green energy.

What is your middle ground?

Taxes can be self defeating if they make businesses uncompetitive. We don't live in a bubble. Will this tax revenue go into developing sources of alternate energy that are competitive with fossil fuels, or just go into the big pot like BC's carbon tax? I doubt the federal tax will be any different.

BC is in no position to criticize Alberta when it comes to the earth friendly extraction and movement of fossil fuels. Nor is it in a position to preach to others regarding CO2 emissions.

http://www.mining.com/top-10-british-columbias-biggest-mines-87979/


My middle ground doesn't include blocking other Canadians from selling their products to foreign markets while prospering by selling our own to those same markets.
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