Greenpeace is reportedly challenging the placement of stickers on gas stations that notify drivers of higher fuel prices due to the implementation of a carbon tax.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has embarked on a pro-energy agenda in his province since entering office, will execute a number of measures to fight back against Canada’s nationwide carbon tax.
Besides challenging the carbon tax initiative in court, the conservative politician is looking to include item breakdowns on gas receipts and heating bills, informing customers of how much the carbon fee is costing them.
The Ontario government is also looking to include stickers at gas pumps across the province, informing customers of the fee.
“Today, I want to confirm that in Ontario the carbon tax’s days are numbered,” Ford told the media in June. “In fact, upon the swearing in of my new cabinet, at the top of our agenda, the very first item will be to pass an order to cancel the Liberal cap-and-trade carbon tax.”
However, Ford’s sticker program is already running into opposition.
Greenpeace — an international environmentalist organization — reportedly announced its intention to mount a challenge. The group is arguing the stickers are deceptive because they do not include the price of inaction on climate change.
“Doug Ford can’t pretend climate change doesn’t exist or that it isn’t already imposing heavy costs on our health and communities,” said Keith Stewart, an energy strategist with Greenpeace Canada, according to a Globe and Mail reporter.
Greenpeace intends to challenge the Ford govt’s intention to post stickers on gas pumps about the costs of the carbon tax #onpoli pic.twitter.com/BmDNbvDw69
— Laura Stone (@l_stone) November 15, 2018
“These stickers are a cheap attempt to mislead Ontarians with half-truths that cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. We are already dealing with the financial fallout from more extreme storms, flooding and heat waves and these will only get worse the longer politicians like Doug Ford deny the severity of the climate crisis and delay action to solve it,” Stewart continued.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in October he would be implementing a carbon tax in six provinces that, according to his administration, haven’t done enough to fight climate change.
The tax, which will go into effect in 2019, will be set at approximately $15 per ton of carbon dioxide emitted and incrementally increase to over $38 per ton by 2022.
Trudeau’s government claims about 90 percent of the carbon tax revenue will be returned to Canadians in the form of rebates, offsetting costs of the fee. However, critics argue the plan is ill-designed, as it does coincide with regulation rollbacks.
“Properly designed and implemented carbon pricing can work to both improve the economy and better regulate GHG emissions,” wrote Ashley Stedman and Elmira Aliakbari, two policy experts at the Fraser Institute. “Unfortunately, the plan announced on Tuesday by the federal government could very well make matters worse.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation did not receive a response from Greenpeace Canada in time for press.
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One of the co-founders of Greenpeace Patrick Moore quit when Greenpeace went to radical he was the only once with any scientific background
I can’t believe how good the comments on this article are. Good job everyone. Here is a simple one. Green Peace is attempting to apply the standard policy of the environmental left. Block any information that might harm their cause.
What dose Greenpeace ships run on? not on magic their ships don’t have any sails on them THEY RUN ON FOSSIL FUELS the same Fossil Fuels these iidots demand be left in the Ground even though the voters rejected Fracking ban
Keith Stewart, an energy strategist with Greenpeace Canada is being deceptive when he doesn’t publicize his income and it’s sources. He also doesn’t truthfully inform everyone regarding his true objectives backed up by data.
Hey, Keith Steward. Listen closely and learn. Anthropogenic climate change doesn’t exist and it isn’t already imposing heavy costs on our health and communities. Also a “carbon tax” doesn’t tax carbon. It taxes carbon dioxide, a beneficial trace gas which is plant food and does not — repeat DOES NOT — have any affect on our climate. All a carbon tax does is take millions of dollars from the pockets of Canadians for no good reason and is of no benefit to said Canadians (who will have less money available for the real necessities of their lives — and harm the nation’s local economies.) A “carbon tax” to fight “climate change” (which is natural and NOT caused by CO2) is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
“Greenpeace — an international environmentalist organization — reportedly announced its intention to mount a challenge. The group (Greenpeace) is arguing the stickers are deceptive because they do not include the price of inaction on climate change.”
“The Ontario government is also looking to include stickers at gas pumps across the province, informing customers of the fee.” However magically derived, the carbon fee is a known quantity/penalty, it is a real burden placed on tax payers. Not advising the taxpayer of the tax burdens placed upon them would be lying by omission. Just another lie.
And why just Ontario?? As a matter of good governance, labels or posters at point of sale locations and/or mail inserts informing customers of breakdowns of tax cost per unit price structure should be mandatory for ALL taxed items. Not just gas receipts and heating bills. Transparency is a better policy unless the attempt is to deceive…
The group (Greenpeace) is arguing the stickers are deceptive because they do not include the price of inaction on climate change…. like getting wet because you forgot your umbrella???
No. But there is real deception going on. The carbon tax is an expansion in government’s role of subsidizing a (artificial) market for wind and solar through alternative ADDITIONAL taxpayer funded subsidies and the promise of gobs of jobs for Canadians to boot. What it is really designed to do is make available (more) taxpayer money to directly benefit the wind and solar environmental activists in their ongoing attempt to cripple the oil and coal industries.
Greenpeace is lying. The best evidence is that mankind’s effects on the Earth’s climate are modest and benign, and rising atmospheric CO2 levels are very BENEFICIAL, rather than harmful, for both agriculture and natural ecosystems.
Of course, any question about whether something is net good or bad, beneficial or harmful, boils down to a cost-benefit analysis. Ignoring either one invalidates the conclusion.
As it happens, the major benefits of rising CO2 levels are real and well-measured. The major costs/harms are, thus far, just hypothetical, and increasingly implausible.
BENEFITS:
● Thanks, in significant part, to rising CO2 levels, agricultural productivity is dramatically up, for almost all crops, and 15-20% of current agricultural productivity is a direct benefit resulting from higher atmospheric CO2 levels.
https://sealevel.info/rice_C3_and_setaria_viridis_C4_vs_CO2_level2.png
http://co2science.org/data/plant_growth/plantgrowth.php
http://sealevel.info/learnmore.html#benefits
● Also thanks, in significant part, to rising CO2 levels, famines are becoming increasingly rare.
https://ourworldindata.org/famines
● Commercial greenhouses commonly use CO2 supplementation to triple or quadruple CO2 levels, because it makes the plants much healthier and more productive. That’s 6x to >8x the increase which mankind has caused in outdoor CO2 levels.
● Desertification fears have proven to be unfounded; in fact, the Earth is greening, especially in arid regions, thanks to CO2 fertilization.
http://sealevel.info/greening_earth_spatial_patterns_Myneni.html
COSTS/HARMS:
The slight temperature changes associated with manmade global warming are dwarfed by the natural temperature differences associated with moving short distances north-or-south, or small changes in altitude, or the effects of slight shifts in spring planting dates for annual crops. They obviously not very worrisome, in and of themselves, so climate alarmists focus instead on hypothesized secondary effects, like accelerated sea-level rise, worsening droughts, worsening extreme weather.
But, as it happens, despite two-thirds of a century of steadily rising CO2 levels, none of those hypothesized harms have materialized.
● Coastal sea-level rise has been accurately measured for more than a century in many locations, and for twice that long in some. Those measurements show that the rate of sea-level rise is not measurably affected by atmospheric CO2 level and the consequent slight global warming. In fact, the best measurement records show that sea-level rise has not detectably accelerated since at least the 1920s.
https://sealevel.info/1612340_Honolulu_Wismar_Stockholm_vs_CO2_annot3.png
https://sealevel.info/MSL_global_thumbnails5.html
● Droughts are not worsening, and higher CO2 levels are mitigating drought impacts by making plants more water-efficient and drought-resistant.
http://sealevel.info/Fraction_of_the_Globe_in_Drought_1982-2012.jpg
http://www.sealevel.info/resources.html#plants2
● Hurricanes and typhoons are not worsening.
https://sealevel.info/ACE_wunderground_2017-08-14.png
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8182
http://www.sealevel.info/frequency_12months_2018-09-30_with_trendlines.png
http://www.sealevel.info/global_running_ace_2018-06.png
● The frequency of large tornadoes has declined.
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/tornado/clim/EF3-EF5.png
http://www.sealevel.info/EF3_to_EF5_tornadoes_historical_woodtv_dot_com_annot1_1006x759.png
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/24/2018-u-s-tornadoes-on-track-to-be-lowest-ever-noaas-temperature-trends-blow-a-hole-in-climate-correlation/
The best evidence is that man-made global warming is modest and benign, and higher CO2 levels are very beneficial, for both mankind and natural ecosystems.
If you’d like to learn more about climate change, I’ve compiled a short list of excellent resources, here:
http://sealevel.info/learnmore.html
Wow. Amazing reply. More like another article.
Keeping it simple: CO2 = plant food
“Properly designed and implemented carbon pricing can work to both improve the economy and better regulate GHG emissions” – nope. Central planning never works.
Greenpeace needs to quit using Fossil Fuels themselves and quit sailing all over the planet making total pests of themselves
Greenpeace can’t stop me and my sharpie.