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Hospitality appreciated… Sylvia Gunther, centre, served some warm food to Judy and Rob Newell from the BulkleyNechako Regional District during the welcoming barbecue at the 108 Heritage Site. This was the first social of the North Central Local Government Association convention and AGM hosted by the District of 100 Mile House, May 2-4.
Dump carbon tax, B.C. Liberal says
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The B.C. Liberal government should quit pretending it can influence global climate and scrap the carbon tax on fossil fuels as soon as possible, Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett said April 30. Bennett called for the move in debate of an NDP motion to relieve hospitals, colleges and universities of the obligation to purchase carbon offsets for their fuel use. The B.C. Liberal government has already offered rebates to the province’s 60 public school
districts to offset their mandatory payments this year, while it reviews the carbon tax program. Bennett, a former B.C. Liberal energy minister, clarified he was expressing his own opinion, and not attempting to speak for the government or party. He said it would take time to phase the carbon tax out, and there would be costs associated with the income tax cuts that have been phased in at the same time to keep it revenue neutral to the government. “In fact, I would go a little further and say the whole
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policy regime that’s based on the notion that the British Columbia government can do something about the amount of human-caused carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere should be rethought – again, in my opinion.” He added Canada’s carbon emissions represent two per cent of all human sources, and B.C.’s emissions are roughly one-10th of that. NDP environment critic Rob Fleming began the debate, arguing that colleges, universities and hospitals should keep the money paid in carbon offsets to improve
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the fuel efficiency of their operations, rather than pay it to the Pacific Carbon Trust for distribution to other greenhouse gas reduction projects in industry. Fleming said carbon offsets will cost public sector operations $25 million this year, and B.C.’s public sector is only responsible for one per cent of the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. The government has committed to one more increase in the carbon tax on July 1, which will add about a cent to the 5.56-cent tax on a litre of gasoline.
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