Monday, February 25, 2008

Carbon tax focus of British Columbia budget

Campbell government introduces carrot-and-stock enviro-document in effort to curb greenhouse gases

JUSTINE HUNTER - February 20, 2008

VICTORIA -- The B.C. government introduced North America's first full-fledged carbon tax yesterday, an attempt to engineer a social movement aimed at getting British Columbians to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions.

The new tax will be tempered with matching income-tax cuts plus what is likely the province's largest-ever dividend to taxpayers.

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