BC lags behind provinces on climate change actions: Pembina Institute
Posted June 14, 2016 12:07 pm.
Last Updated June 14, 2016 12:45 pm.
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VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) – The Pembina Institute says BC is a climate- change laggard despite its eight-year-old carbon tax on fossil fuels.
The environmental think tank says in a report that harmful greenhouse gas emissions are projected to rise in BC, while they drop in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.
Josha MacNab with Pembina says BC’s carbon tax was a bold and leading climate-change fighting initiative in 2008, but it’s been frozen for the past four years.
The province charges $30 a tonne on carbon emissions, adding up to about seven cents on a litre on gas, for example.
MacNab says BC’s greenhouse gas emissions could rise by 39 per cent above 2014 levels by 2030, while in Alberta, Ontario and Quebec they’re projected to decrease by 26 per cent, 22 per cent and 23 per cent respectively over the same period.
BC is expected to introduce a new climate-change plan later this month, with initiatives to reduce carbon emissions.
