With Canada’s carbon tax cancelled and crude oil prices at their lowest since the pandemic, Prairie farmers should see relief in their energy bills.
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Railways eliminate carbon surcharge
Saskatchewan farmers would have paid $80 million this year in carbon tax surcharges
Farmers said they are happy and relieved that Canada’s two major railways have removed their carbon tax surcharges.
Saskatchewan claims carbon tax-free status
The Saskatchewan government said it would no longer collect the ‘silent’ carbon tax applied to large emitters
Saskatchewan’s decision to pause collecting the industrial carbon tax has met with approval but also questions about where the province will find the $431.5 million the Output Based Performance Standards (OBPS) fund was to contribute to this year’s budget.
Carbon tax elimination expected to save farmers millions
Prime minister Mark Carney cancels consumer portion of the carbon pricing system shortly after being sworn into office
Agricultural organizations that pushed hard for carbon pricing exemptions for farmers said the end of the consumer portion of Canada’s tax is good news.
Carney cuts carbon tax in first move as prime minister
Prime minister Mark Carney has eliminated the consumer carbon tax.
Carney election could change agriculture priorities ahead of federal election
Glacier FarmMedia – Mark Carney has been elected as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and will become the next Prime Minister of Canada. Carney’s victory was certified Sunday evening, as the former Bank of Canada governor took 85 per cent of the vote among Liberals. His campaign was launched following Prime Minister Justin […] Read more
Carney wins Liberal leadership, vows to repeal ‘divisive’ carbon tax
Says his government will keep counter tariffs on until American government 'shows us respect'
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Former governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney claimed a landslide victory on Sunday to lead the Liberal Party and become its next prime minister, setting him up for a clash with the Trump administration. Carney has also promised to scrap the carbon tax, stop a planned increase in the capital […] Read more
Ongoing federal carbon tax rebate saga continues
The federal carbon tax was introduced in 2019 and has increased ever since. Originally, it was to be returned to the people in the province or territory where it was collected. This article isn’t relevant for British Columbia and Quebec because neither has a federal carbon tax. Individuals receive the Canada Carbon Rebate quarterly. Payments […] Read more
Smear campaign targets carbon tax
This is how it works. A petroleum industry marketing organization releases a story about how much the carbon tax is costing municipalities in Alberta. It points out that the carbon tax has cost those municipalities $37 million. To the average person, $37 million is an incredible amount. To reinforce this point, the writer suggests that […] Read more
Sask. company pitches decarbonized fertilizer
Post-production carbon capture will remove carbon dioxide and send it deep underground: company
Corporate backers of a planned fertilizer plant in Saskatchewan say they will one day sell fertilizer with lower greenhouse gas output than is usually associated with synthetic fertilizer production. The plant, to be built in Belle Plaine in central Saskatchewan, is the brain child of Saskatoon’s Genesis Fertilizers and CARBONCO, a South Korea-based Total Solution […] Read more
