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British Columbia got a little greener on Wednesday: The province celebrated the first anniversary of its carbon tax with a price bump at the gas pumps.
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Carbon Offsets Possible For Ag Sector
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Farmers could be active participants in carbon offset markets in the not so distant future.
Bruce Love is with Alberta-based Preferred Carbon.
Canada Day Celebrations - Borealis Offsets Plant Final Trees at McPhee Creek Afforestation Project
Borealis Offsets helped to officially mark Canada Day yesterday by planting the final trees at their afforestation project which is located 20 km northwest of Prince George in British Columbia. The project involved the planting of 120,000 tress of mixed native species planted over 75HA of marginal unused bare land, creating a managed sub-boreal forest ecosystem.
Shoots sprout in Canada’s green sector
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada’s alternative energy sector is showing signs of a budding recovery, as companies resurrect financing deals and public offerings that withered with the recession, but that revival remains very fragile.
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EDITORIAL: Carbon offsets good idea — but schools, hospitals shouldn’t have to pay
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Reducing greenhouse gasses to slow climate change is a worthy goal, but not at the expense of students and sick people.
Track Your Carbon Footprint With Ecobot
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Everyone has a different theory on the best ways to be “green” and environment-friendly, but it’s hard to know where to start until you know how energy-efficient you already are. It’s fairly easy to figure out the carbon footprint of, say, your car, but what about smaller things like your computer or paper usage?
ECOBOT is a free, open source Adobe AIR application that watches your fuel, paper, and power consumption to help you determine where you’re having the most negative impact on the environment and what you’re doing right.
Canada: NRTEE Proposes Carbon Policy To Achieve 2050 Goals
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Canadian businesses need to assess their greenhouse gas emissions and consider options for reducing such emissions in light of the recently released NRTEE report.
On April 16, 2009, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) issued its Achieving 2050 http://www.nrtee-trnee.com/eng/publications/carbon-pricing/carbon-pricing-eng.php proposal for a Canadian carbon pricing policy, which includes a comprehensive and in-depth assessment of how to most efficiently reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada.
Road to B.C. carbon neutrality goes through clarification
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VANCOUVER — The road to carbon neutrality will be long, complicated and expensive for B.C. schools, universities, colleges, health authorities and Crown corporations, and time is running out.
The provincial public sector has until 2010 to report its baseline greenhouse gas emissions, reduce those emissions as much as possible and purchase carbon offsets to cover the rest.
Carbon costs add to woes
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The Lower Mainland’s health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.’s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints.
Critics say the payments mean the government’s strategy to fight climate change will further exacerbate a crisis in health funding.
Cargill gets first experience selling carbon offsets
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Carbon cap-and-trade hasn’t come to the United States yet, but a Minnesota company in Canada is getting its first experience tracking and selling carbon emission offsets.
Cargill says it’s successfully registered and sold more than 400,000 tonnes of verified emission offsets through the Canadian Standards Association. Reuters reports that buying emissions offsets is one way polluters can meet environmental regulations in Alberta.
Don Braid: Carbon offsets disaster in making
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Federal regulation doesn’t inspire confidence.
The new world of carbon offsets trading looks a lot like the old world of the gun registry and another federal horror farther back, wage and price controls.
The goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I support it, so please hold the environmental tirades.
The larger question is whether this system will truly help the environment, or simply provide employment and status for another generation of bureaucrats.
Canada says plans to set up market for carbon
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada on Wednesday unveiled plans for a national carbon market that it said would help cut emissions of greenhouse gases by making it more attractive to invest in clean energy projects.
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Carbon pricing conference to tackle controversial carbon tax
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VANCOUVER — B.C. won worldwide acclaim for introducing its controversial carbon tax last year, but economists and environmentalists now agree that it’s time to evaluate whether the tax is actually working.
Is the B.C. carbon tax “experiment” achieving its goals? Is it helping to combat human-caused climate change? How does the carbon tax affect ordinary households as well as businesses, both big and small, and government?
BOMA Toronto CDM Program announces two new energy conservation programs for commercial properties in the ‘416′ area code
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Media Release
Two new programs to help reduce energy consumption for commercial building owners and tenants.
The BOMA Toronto CDM Program announces two new energy conservation programs for commercial properties in the ‘416′ area code.
(Toronto, June 10, 2009) The Building Owners and Managers Association of (BOMA) Toronto, on behalf of the Ontario Power Authority (OPA), manages and delivers an energy conservation incentive program for buildings (office, retail, industrial and hotels) - the BOMA Toronto Conservation Demand Management (CDM) Program. All buildings in the ‘416′ telephone exchange area, and over 25,000 square feet, are eligible to apply. The initial program had offered only retrofit incentives to building owners. It has now expanded to provide incentives for tenants and channel partners.
Vancouver to Offset 300,000 tons of CO2 at 2010 Olympics
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Offsetters Green Technology Inc., a Canadian-based carbon asset managing series and supplier of carbon offsets, disposition counteract up to 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. The series plans to sidekick with diction clean-technology companies including Nexterra, Sempa Power, Lignol Innovations, Ballard Power and Powertech to conceive and demonstrate the clean-tech counteract projects.
