B.C.'s bad carbon tactics

B.C.’s carbon tax is simply the latest of many pollution-discharge fees the province has charged industry for more than 20 years. The fee system was originally touted as a way to reward industrial plant owners who voluntarily cut any taxed pollutants. But plant operators have rarely seen sustained reductions in their tax bills, even after they cut discharges.

That is because the province’s environmental protection costs must be “self-financed” through the pollution-fee system. more...