Canada set to end domestic subsidies for unabated fossil-fuel production
Canada set to end domestic subsidies for unabated fossil-fuel production
The Liberal government is expected next week to finally fulfil a promise Canada made 14 years ago to end federal subsidies that aid in the production of fossil fuels.
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The Liberal government is expected next week to finally fulfil a promise Canada made 14 years ago to end federal subsidies that aid in the production of fossil fuels.
This will be news when they’ve actually done it, and haven’t replaced it with the same thing under a different name.
41 0 Reply"Instead of subsidies, we've negotiated to buy small quantities of fossil-fuels from producers for $1 billion / litre."
14 0 ReplyArtisanal crude
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The word "unabated" seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting in the announcement.
19 0 ReplyThey've got decades of trending to show the lack of abatement.
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Good, as somebody who lives in Alberta, the sooner the oil industry is dead and gone from this province the better.
17 0 ReplyButbutbut... There ARE no subsidies!!! /s
11 0 Replyseems like it will continue to be slow-rolled. The Conservatives will promise to do both the same, and the opposite.
10 0 ReplyGood! ✊
6 0 ReplyThe COnservatives will overturn this the first chance they get.
4 0 ReplyAnd then PP gets elected as PM.
3 0 ReplyI don't want to imagine the Harper-like hellscape for non-rich, non-male, non-albertan, non-corporation non-supporters.
6 0 ReplyMe neither. Trust me.
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Good. Now do the same with EV/Solar/Wind subsidies
1 0 ReplyWhy would they do that when the goal is to expand those things?
26 0 ReplyWhy? Are they threatening the world's climate too?
20 0 ReplyNah. Just irrelevant in the next-fiscal scope of the current ephemeral Con leader's buddies' thinking, and therefore valueless, thus expendable.
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Is this sarcasm ? I wonder what's your thought process ?
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Or something like that if I had to guess.
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Nope. We're moving forward.
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