The easiest example as to why the carbon tax is stupid:
The carbon tax was introduced in BC under Gordon Campbell’s hyper conservative and extreme pro oil government.
If it was ever going to accomplish anything other than looking good and giving the oil and gas industry a tax break, they wouldn’t have done it.
The concept of a carbon tax isn’t forcing oil and gas companies to do immediate things, it’s just them paying the logging industry to plant some trees in a place that was already logged and was going to be replaced and logged again in the future.
There are multiple different ways to tax carbon. The current federal carbon tax does not include rebates for planting trees, so that loophole doesn’t exist.
The easiest example as to why the carbon tax is stupid:
The carbon tax was introduced in BC under Gordon Campbell’s hyper conservative and extreme pro oil government.
If it was ever going to accomplish anything other than looking good and giving the oil and gas industry a tax break, they wouldn’t have done it.
The concept of a carbon tax isn’t forcing oil and gas companies to do immediate things, it’s just them paying the logging industry to plant some trees in a place that was already logged and was going to be replaced and logged again in the future.
There are multiple different ways to tax carbon. The current federal carbon tax does not include rebates for planting trees, so that loophole doesn’t exist.