The Tesla Car is Airwolf: beauty, intensity and majesty in one package. When I saw this video, I had a bit of an epiphany: being green is more than birkenstalks and wilderness. It is empowering our engineers, urban planners and business folk to create for us a world that we want to live in.
They so want to do it.
Imagine this kind of creativity put into homes, public transit, government services.
OTTAWA — It was denounced by Environment Minister John Baird as “the mother of all taxes,” but a new report for the federal government says a $50-per-tonne carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas pollution would do little harm to the Canadian economy.
The study - titled “Cost Curves for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in Canada: The Kyoto Period and Beyond” - was submitted to the government in January.
Green party Leader Elizabeth May said it proves the Conservatives knew the top experts were urging them to accept her proposal of a $50-per-tonne carbon tax as the most effective tool to fight global warming.
Related Article: Carbon Tax Won’t Hurt Economy
OTTAWA - Elizabeth May’s proposal of a $50-per-tonne carbon tax, which could drive up gasoline prices by 12 cents per litre, drove a wedge between her Green party and the other federal opposition parties.
The proposed carbon tax, which could climb to $100 per tonne by 2020, is at the heart of a new climate change plan unveiled by May as the only way to avert a climate catastrophe. Revenues from the new tax would be used to reduce income and payroll taxes, and to establish income supplements and other incentives to encourage deep reductions in the greenhouse gas pollution that is linked to global warming.
“The fundamental key point is that we need carbon taxes,” May told a news conference. “Right now, the Green Party of Canada is the only Canadian political party prepared to state this obvious reality. We will use those carbon taxes to reduce taxes elsewhere.”
By Arthur Weinreb, Canada Free Press
This week, the Green Party of Canada released its policy on climate change entitled, A New Energy Revolution to Avert Global Catastrophe. Wow; straight and right to the point. Party leader Elizabeth May announced that the Greens would impose a carbon tax of $50 per tonne of carbon dioxide emissions, an amount that would double by 2010. It is estimated that the $50 tax would add 12 cents to the cost of a litre of gasoline. Actually that figure is not entirely accurate; this Canada where we tax taxes. The carbon tax attributed to a litre of gasoline would also be subject to the GST.
While other politicians like Liberal MP Dan McTeague constantly rant and whine about gas prices being too high while others tell tales of conspiracies involving the big, bad oil companies, finally we have a politician and a political party that knows the truth about gasoline prices. And they aren’t afraid to talk about it.
Air Canada on Monday said it was introducing a carbon credits program to meet the needs of green-minded consumers concerned about climate change.
The Montreal-based airline will be working with Zerofootprint to offer the carbon offsets, a type of voucher used to sponsor clean-energy research and projects in an effort to counterbalance carbon emissions produced by human activities, such as flying.
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