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Aldyen Donnelly: Carbon taxes: helping to shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor
Canadian newspapers repeatedly report that "most" Canadian economists favour GST increases and carbon taxation to finance new income tax cuts.
It is true that "most economists" feel that increasing the GST and/or taxing carbon emissions and using the new revenues to cut income taxes is an appropriate modification of Canada’s tax system. The problem is that they are wrong.
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The West wants out of the Western Climate Initiative
Until this week, the Western Climate Initiative boasted seven U.S. states and four Canadian provinces who were working toward the launch of a regional cap and trade system on Jan 1, 2012. On Thursday, Arizona formally announced it was backing out of cap and trade. As the state with the fastest rate of emission growth — 61% between 1990 and 2007 – many feared a body blow to Arizona’s economy if it tried to meet the initiative’s carbon reduction goals.
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Who am I?
Who am I? Whenever I wonder, I check in on Wikipedia, to get the latest surmise. At different times I’ve been described as a writer, blogger, coffee-shop owner, global warming denier, astroturfer and entrepreneur. One description I haven’t usually found on Wikipedia, at least not over the last 18 months — is of me as an environmentalist, the only occupation I’ve continually engaged in over the last 30 years.
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Who am I?
(Feb. 13, 2010) Who am I? Whenever I wonder, I check in on Wikipedia, to get the latest surmise. Continue reading
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Sources for "IPCC: Beyond the Himalayas"
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007
Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Delivered by R K Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC 10 December 2007
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Norm Rubin discusses the Samsung deal on "The Agenda"
(February 9, 2010) Energy Probe’s Norm Rubin on “The Agenda” discussing the recent Samsung deal and Ontario’s renewable energy future. The show originally aired on February 2, 2010. Continue reading
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Aldyen Donnelly: My stimulus package is greener than yours
One of the big NDP and Liberal story lines is that the US is spending US $118-billion in stimulus funds on environmental initiatives, while Canada’s stimulus package has only Cdn $3-billion for green initiatives.
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Lawrence Solomon discusses climate change on "The Agenda"
Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon was recently on “The Agenda” discussing the future of climate change in the wake of the failure at Copenhagen to reach a new agreement and the leaked email scandal at the University of East Anglia.The show originally aired on January 28th. 2010.
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Lawrence Solomon: IPCC faces another desertion – its own past chair!
(February 7, 2010) The past chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has joined the growing list of IPCC critics. Continue reading
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