16.11.2015 - Cap-and-trade cash grab
Ontario’s carbon pricing scheme will deliver profits to polluters and the government, higher prices for consumers and insignificant environmental benefits. The outline released by Ontario’s Liberal government Friday of how it plans to introduce cap-and-trade carbon pricing to Ontario starting Jan. 1, 2017, is the most financially irresponsible document I have ever read in nine years of reporting on climate change and carbon pricing. It will deliver undeserved, windfall profits to some of the province’s biggest industrial polluters and billions of dollars to government coffers, paid for by consumers through higher prices on most goods and services...............................................Full Article: Source
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