Comments on: BC’s carbon tax: Where’s the tax? https://ecosocialism.ca/2014/04/bcs-carbon-tax-wheres-tax/ FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Doug https://ecosocialism.ca/2014/04/bcs-carbon-tax-wheres-tax/#comment-7690 Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:02:09 +0000 http://ecosocialism.ca/?p=3126#comment-7690 I agree, but I will continue to find it hard to take the BC initiative seriously as long as the province’s rapidly growing unconventional natural gas play is outside the initiative and as long as the reality of methane emissions associated with the play are ignored. When was the last provincial aggregate calculated and did it include the gas play’s intended and rogue methane emissions?

]]> By: Jeff White https://ecosocialism.ca/2014/04/bcs-carbon-tax-wheres-tax/#comment-506 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 03:06:40 +0000 http://ecosocialism.ca/?p=3126#comment-506 Not a bad article, but Rozworsky is too quick to concede that the carbon tax has had a real impact on B.C.’s emissions. From the charts he refers to, it’s clear in one of them that B.C.’s per-capita energy-related GHG emissions have pretty much paralleled those of Canada as a whole from 2007 to 2011 (the latest year for which data are available).

But why use “per capita” data? B.C.’s population actually grew at a slightly faster rate than the Canada average between 2007 and 2011; so per-capita emissions figures serve to mask the fact that B.C.’s emissions reductions were actually outpaced by Canada’s overall during that period.

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