Double whammy of new climate policies in Atlantic Canada fuel political battle
There is a clash of wills growing in Atlantic Canada over two new climate policies that take effect this weekend, with premiers demanding Ottawa put the brakes on the plan and the federal government accusing them of playing politics with the planet.New regulations that come into force everywhere in Canada on Saturday will require gasoline and diesel refineries and importers to start cutting down the amount of greenhouse-gas emissions that come from their products.
However, families in those provinces will start to receive the federal carbon price rebate in July, a quarterly payment designed to make up for the cost of the carbon price. Guilbeault said there was no need for this increase right now. He also argued to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board in late May that refineries had seen a big increase in profits in recent years, and can afford to absorb some of the costs.
Newfoundland and Labrador, which had been the only province exempt from regulations requiring gas to be blended with biofuels, is threatening to go to the courts.
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