A necessary tool for every tool box: CCNB’s Lois Corbett on federal carbon pricing announcement

Lois Corbett, Executive Director for the Conservation Council of New Brunswick recently spoke with Global News about our support of the federal government’s carbon pricing proposal.

“We’ve recognized for a very long time that carbon pricing is one of those tools that you have to have in your tool box if you’re going to stop human-caused climate change,” said Corbett.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement on Monday, October 3 officially setting floor carbon price at $10 per ton starting in 2018 with an increase of $10 per year to $50 per tonne by 2022.

“Huge economies are already covered by a carbon price: California, Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, the New England seaboard,” said Corbett.

“We have these mechanisms in place already so in fact it’s more the places that don’t have one that are the exception that proves the rule.”

In response to the federal announcement, Environment and Local Government Minister Serge Rousselle told Global News that the carbon pricing regime will be tax neutral – meaning that all income raised in a province will be reinvested back into the province. Minister Rouselle said he still is waiting for the Select Committee on Climate Change’s recommendations before releasing more details on how New Brunswick will approach carbon pricing.

The Select Committee on Climate Change is expected to release their report within the next few weeks.

Read the full story here.

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Read CCNB’s bold, made-in-New Brunswick Climate Action Plan to address climate change, here.

Download the Conservation Council’s Media Backgrounder on Carbon Pricing: Implications of federal proposal for New Brunswick here.

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