Research
Saskatchewan’s carbon tax numbers are in and the answer is … reporting errors
January, 2019
The Government of Saskatchewan is challenging the federal government in court over its plan to implement a tax on greenhouse gas emissions. Saskatchewan opposes the federal plan in part because it claims the economic costs of the carbon tax would be catastrophic.
We took a close look at Saskatchewan’s analysis, and the numbers simply don’t add up. Our best guess is that Saskatchewan’s own modelling suggests that the impacts of a carbon tax have been overstated by multiple orders of magnitude!
Their news release highlights that a carbon tax would reduce GDP growth by up to 2.43%. But their own supporting analysis appears to suggest a reduction of only 0.13% between 2017 and 2022.
Read the full brief here.
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Meeting Canada’s climate mitigation commitments under the Paris Agreement
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California and Québec’s ZEV mandates description
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Saskatchewan’s carbon tax numbers are in and the answer is … reporting errors
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Review of British Columbia’s RLCFRR energy effectiveness ratios
Refining margins and fuel policy in British Columbia
Analysis of the proposed Canadian Clean Fuel Standard
Electrification best practices in Canada
A review of ECCC’s method for estimating upstream GHGs
Refining margins in British Columbia
Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the Energy East pipeline project
The Renewable and Low Carbon Fuel Requirement Regulation
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