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Saskatchewan to stop collecting carbon levy from natural gas and electrical heat (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

Trudeau's exempting heating oil was such a stupid move, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a back-door way to sabotage the carbon tax. I mean, anyone who took introductory PoliSci courses could have told you this would be the end result.

As a side note, it's funny watching Conservatives fume about the carbon tax, when it was their idea in the first place. They wanted market-based solutions like a carbon tax and/or cap-and-trade; the real left-wing solution, as opposed to the neoliberal bullshit we have now, would have been straight-up regulation.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Duncan is always the guy they bring in to do the high-publicity bidding of the sask-party, and be hated by the public.

He was the environment minister, then he was moved to Education to downplay the need for covid protection and to bully trans kids, now he's forcing Saskenergy to break federal law.

[–] d3lta19@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I doubt he's going to be hated by the public with this move. $400 in each person's pocket with not having to pay carbon tax.

[–] SamuelRJankis@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Saskatchewan passed legislation that aims to shield executives from legal consequences, putting that burden on the province.

Anyone ever think how unusual things look if another civilization stumbled across humans. Like would they think "executives" were some unique class of people that held up society on their backs and that's why they get special treatment.

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why would they charge carbon tax on electric heat?

[–] jadero@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because the electricity itself is produced at coal and natural gas power plants, I guess. According to this, about 80% of our electricity comes from fossil fuels.

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But they want us to switch to electric vehicles and electric everything. Seems counterintuitive. Shouldn't they just charge the coal and natural gas plants directly so that cleaner forms of electricity are more financially incentivized?

You're going to heat your house one way or another in the country, this gives you multiple options that all result in carbon tax. I thought the whole point of the carbon tax was supposed to be to incentivize the cleanest option? Otherwise it's just another tax on the middle class with the only outcome being less money in people's pockets and generating more money for the government

[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

EV's, even when powered by coal, are still more carbon efficient than ICE. "Luckily, power plants are much more efficient at making energy than a car engine, so even an EV that runs entirely on electricity from coal—the very “dirtiest” fossil fuel—will still produce less CO2 per mile driven than a similar ICE car.". ICE have to be powerful, light weight, and space efficient. generator plants just need to be efficent, size be damned!

But yea, totally agree that the carbon tax should be charged to the generating facility.