{"id":1385,"date":"2014-11-10T18:17:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2014-11-10T18:17:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:17:39","slug":"lessons-from-b-c-s-carbon-tax-blog-posts-pembina-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from B.C.\u2019s carbon tax | Blog Posts | Pembina Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pembina.org\/blog\/lessons-from-bcs-carbon-tax\">Lessons from B.C.\u2019s carbon tax | Blog Posts | Pembina Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.334; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">It\u2019s been hailed as an environmental and economic \u201c<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: #1d73be; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pembina.org\/docs\/bc-carbon-tax-backgrounder-pembina-institute-2014.pdf#page=2\">success<\/a>,\u201d a \u201c<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: #1d73be; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pembina.org\/docs\/bc-carbon-tax-backgrounder-pembina-institute-2014.pdf#page=1\">textbook case<\/a>\u201d in carbon pricing and \u201c<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: #1d73be; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pembina.org\/docs\/bc-carbon-tax-backgrounder-pembina-institute-2014.pdf#page=4\">on the right track<\/a>\u201d toward good economic policy. British Columbia\u2019s carbon tax has been in place for six years, and all available evidence shows it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.334; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Here\u2019s the big news: per capita fuel use covered by the tax has dropped by 16 per cent in the province relative to 2008 (the year the carbon tax came into effect), and so too has carbon pollution. That\u2019s good for the environment. Meantime, B.C.\u2019s economy has outpaced the rest of Canada\u2019s over the same period. That\u2019s great for jobs and the economy.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; color: #000000;\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; color: #000000;\">Our\u00a0<a style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: #1d73be; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pembina.org\/pub\/the-bc-carbon-tax\">new backgrounder<\/a>\u00a0summarizes B.C.\u2019s terrific success with its carbon tax. The economic, environmental and social lessons are worth reflecting upon \u2014 both in B.C. and in jurisdictions considering similar carbon pricing approaches, as what we see in B.C. is a leading example of how to price carbon effectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.334; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons from B.C.\u2019s carbon tax | Blog Posts | Pembina Institute. It\u2019s been hailed as an environmental and economic \u201csuccess,\u201d a \u201ctextbook case\u201d in carbon pricing and \u201con the right track\u201d toward good economic policy. British Columbia\u2019s carbon tax has been in place for six years, and all available evidence shows it\u2019s working. 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