2y ago

Saskatchewan to stop collecting carbon levy from natural gas and electrical heat

www.winnipegfreepress.com

Non-Paywall Article

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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.
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.
- 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.
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.
Why would they charge carbon tax on electric heat?
- 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.
  
  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

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