“The assault
from the oil and gas industry on this legislation was unprecedented,”
wrote one observer, but Canada finally has “a new environmental assessment
process, and the national energy board has been transformed to a new and
improved institution.”
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Oil and water: N.L. tries to balance economy and environment — to mixed reviews | CBC News
“I assure you the future in our offshore has tremendous
potential, and we are working hard to make sure that we can realize that
potential,” said Premier Dwight Ball to the audience at
the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industry Association
conference.
potential, and we are working hard to make sure that we can realize that
potential,” said Premier Dwight Ball to the audience at
the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industry Association
conference.
In a nod to environmental concerns he repeated the
claim that oil production in this province emits less carbon than the
global average.
His words come at the same time the federal
government has declared a climate emergency in Canada while also giving
the green light to the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which will bring oil
from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia.
The Scheer climate plan: whatever – Macleans.ca
It’s worth noting
that those four sentences are made to sprawl, in really large type,
across five pages of Scheer’s document. Anyone who was once an
undergraduate humanities major cannot help but notice the feats of
margin-stretching and creative font selection that have produced a
61-page document from a guy who was really hoping climate change
wouldn’t be on the exam.
There’s 20 pages of throat-clearing and
Liberal-mocking before the document gets to its first actual proposal.
(Here’s that proposal: Scheer promises to “Set emissions standards for
major emitters that will lower greenhouse gases and drive Canadian
businesses to the highest standards of green technology.” What standards
will produce that result? No answer, in any font size.)
Brunswick News agrees not to publish more articles on leaked carbon tax document | CBC News
Carr said in an affidavit the document contains “proprietary commercial information of many different private-sector companies operating within the Province.”
The industrial carbon tax, if accepted by Ottawa, would apply to the Irving Oil refinery and several large forestry mills in the province, including some owned by J.D. Irving Ltd.
J.D. Irving’s co-CEO, Jim Irving, is also listed as the president of Brunswick News.
Tax avoidance costing Canada up to $25B a year: PBO | Canadians for Tax Fairness
For the second time this week, experts are sounding the alarm on the multi-billion-dollar cost of tax dodging. Today’s Parliamentary Budget Officer’s report
suggests Canada is losing up to $25 billion or more a year in tax
revenues from multinational corporations avoiding taxes through tax
havens.
suggests Canada is losing up to $25 billion or more a year in tax
revenues from multinational corporations avoiding taxes through tax
havens.
“Canadians are being robbed of investments to health care, childcare,
education and green infrastructure – all of which the government could
afford if it were to get serious about cracking down on tax avoidance,”
said Toby Sanger, executive director of Canadians for Tax Fairness.