First carbon offset market coming to help big industry cut emissions at a lower cost

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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is creating Canada's first carbon offset market to help big industry in its quest to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.

Carbon offset credits will be created when an entity such as a municipality, a farmer or a company reduces its own emissions more than they have to.

The proposed regulations say one credit would be created for every tonne of emissions reduced, but the credits have to be registered and independently verified before they can be sold.Companies that are paying the federal carbon price can buy those credits to reduce the amount of carbon price they have to pay.

Big industrial emitters can already buy and sell carbon credits created by other companies covered by the federal carbon pricing system, but carbon offset markets will expand the credit system beyond that group of companies. The first carbon offset market will be for credits produced by municipalities that capture methane from their landfills, with future markets to be created for cutting emissions from farmland, forests and from reducing or eliminating fluorinated refrigerants in advanced refrigeration systems.

 

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So what one industry doesn't emit & gets a credit point for, another industry can buy that credit point (costs applied to product) & emit an equal amount the other industry didn't emit, so in the end the same amount of emissions but from different sources & consumers pay for it?

At a huge penalty to consumers!!

Yet somehow the consumer will pay more..

All I heard was more taxes and the cost of living going up even more.

Where are our carbon refund cheque’s!!!!!!

This is laughable!! Let’s follow who owns this market and making money off it !! I’m sure some liberal friends are going to get bulging pockets

Another tax payer funded bureaucratic nightmare full of regulations costing millions

This guy can disappear and photons would never miss him.

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