Funding comes from "very successful" cap-and-trade auctions. ...
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‘A very historic milestone’: Ontario’s first cap-and-trade auction a near sellout
PC Leader Patrick Brown, meanwhile, kept up his attacks on the Liberal government's chosen carbon-pricing system. ...
Survey shows businesses skeptical of Liberal government’s key climate and pension policies
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce tabled its first-ever Ontario Economic Report on Tuesday, a sweeping document that takes the pulse of the province’s corporate world. ...
National carbon price to start cheaper, rise faster than that of Ontario’s cap-and-trade system
Cost isn’t everything, though; the federal government says provinces who use cap-and-trade systems must have 2030 emissions targets equal to or greater than Canada’s, which is 30 per cent below 2005 GHG levels. ...
Ontario’s ‘green bank’ doesn’t have a name yet
The green bank will also have to tap outside experts, who will to help it fulfill a mission of helping households pay for low-carbon retrofits to their homes. ...
Natural gas users ask why cap-and-trade costs being buried on bills
Both the Industrial Gas Users Association (IGUA) and the Association of Power Producers of Ontario (APPrO) have written to the OEB, the province’s natural-gas system regulator, asking for more details about the agency’s ...
Purchase: Who should do policy analysis?
Columnist Bryne Purchase has a few things to get off his chest about how the Wynne government is handling the implementation of its cap-and-trade system. ...
Liberals and Tories point fingers over cap-and-trade committee clashes
On Monday, Bill 172, the Liberal government’s greenhouse gas bill, was scheduled for its third round of clause-by-clause consideration by the general government committee. There will be a fourth round. ...
Approximately 200 amendments proposed to government’s cap-and-trade bill
Bill 172, the Climate Change Mitigation and Low-Carbon Economy Act, was back before the general government committee on Monday for clause-by-clause consideration. ...
Bills this week
Bills scheduled to come before the legislature and committees this week. ...
Committee hears qualms about targets, timing and transparency of cap-and-trade
Hearings on Bill 172, the Climate Change Mitigation and Low-carbon Economy Act, began Monday at Queen’s Park. ...
Gas giants trying to grasp costs of coming cap-and-trade program
Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. and Union Gas Limited have, or are applying for, accounts that will record the cost of government greenhouse gas reduction programs, and are eyeing repayment for those expenses. ...
Cap-and-trade concerns on industry’s mind during pre-budget consultations
Representatives from the natural gas, steelmaking and paper industries have voiced their concerns about the coming cap-and-trade system to the province's finance committee. ...
Happening: Manitoba to link cap-and-trade system with Ontario and Quebec
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Province estimates $1.3 billion in cap-and-trade revenue in 2017
Proceeds will go into a Green Investment Fund, which is dedicated for measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the province ...
Electricity sector will be ‘rewarded’ under cap-and-trade for coal plant shutdown, Chiarelli says
Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli said ratepayers deserve some relief within cap and trade for the 'sacrifice' already made after the coal-fired power plants were shut down. ...
Purchase: Cap-and-trade is a risky policy
Columnist Bryne Purchase says the Liberal government's cap-and-trade policy announced Monday is the more complex way of controlling greenhouse gas emissions. ...
Province announces cap-and-trade program, but details remain scarce
Premier Kathleen Wynne and Environment and Climate Change Minister Glen Murray said today was for announcing Ontario has 'picked a lane,' but weren't willing to get into cost or revenue estimates. ...
Expect news on carbon pricing in year ahead, premier says
Ontario may be joining Quebec's cap-and-trade system, particularly after the two provinces held a joint Cabinet meeting in November that had climate change as a major focus, Kathleen Wynne tells QP Briefing. ...
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