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The other day we argued that Canada's carbon tax should be applied to the capture and sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. For example, we suggested that a tax of 22 cents (US) should be applied to the price of a litre of gas to cover the cost of capturing the carbon dioxide emitted on combustion of the gas. Instead, however, the Government of Canada imposes a carbon tax on major Canadian industries, thereby diminishing their international competitiveness, while using the revenue to send cheques t
Thus while encouraging certain industries to limit their carbon emissions, the carbon tax does nothing to discourage carbon emissions at the consumer level, for example, by those who use a two-plus ton pickup truck for their solitary and load-free commute to the office. Moreover, none of the tax collected in the name of limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions is used to capture emitted carbon.
But what reveals most clearly the absolute contempt with which governments in Canada, both Federal and Provincial, regard the public's concern about carbon emissions and climate warming is that as near monopoly owners (89%) of the nation's land base, they exercise control of the forest with near total incompetence and irresponsibility. The consequence is not only massive forest fires year after year resulting in per capita carbon emissions that can exceed the global average ten times, but a massive loss of
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