No, you don’t have to choose. Canada should say ‘Yes’ to both carbon taxes and pipelines GlobeDebate
A lot of voices on both sides have been telling you that these are either/or choices. “Both,” they insist, is not on the menu. The result may be that Canada ends up with neither.A toothless carbon-reduction plan, paired with pipeline paralysis. More greenhouse gas emissions, paired with a hamstrung oil industry. Less environmental progress, paired with less economic prosperity. From an easy win-win to a frustrating everybody-loses. Hooray.
Take British Columbia. It has Canada’s first and best carbon tax, which in lots of small ways is having a real effect on the use of oil, gasoline and other carbon-based fuels in the province. It’s a practical, economically sensible solution to a real environmental issue. If the province didn’t import oil and gasoline from Alberta, it could and would import from the United States or overseas – as it already does. In other words, Trans Mountain’s long imprisonment in limbo is doing nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in B.C., or across the planet.Opposition to pipelines gets falsely invoked as a symbol of carbon-reduction enlightenment. But because oil blocked from one source ends up being replaced by another, it’s an entirely symbolic gesture.
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