carbon pricing

There was momentum, and then it was gone. In an exclusive interview with National Observer, the environment and climate change minister defends her record despite recent electoral gains by the right.

Never in my lifetime have I seen such intense propaganda unleashed in Canada, as the Ontario government’s attack on carbon tax, writes Gerald Kutney.

A new report released on Thursday by the Calgary-based National Energy Board (NEB) says that carbon taxes are efficient at reducing energy consumption, and thereby emissions, by households and businesses. The analysis examined the shift underway as the economy moves from fossil fuels to clean energy.

Ontario lawyers argued that Ottawa's pricing on emissions would unbalance the “constitutional architecture” in Canada, a delicate division of powers between the federal government and its constituent provinces, while a five-judge panel pushed back.