[N_Fiddledog]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

This point has already been made to you repeatedly: either you’re too dense or playing dumb 1.6% for ONE YEAR is NOMINAL. The targets may be overly agreeable but that’s not the same as your phony claim that taxes do nothing to curb emissions

And as has been patiently pointed out to you, the increase isn't just one year. The increase has been happening incrementally since 2010.

The decrease was larger and had been happening since before the carbon tax. Even so the increase in emissions is only 2% from the beginning of the carbon tax era. 1.6% for a single year looks pretty impressive next to that.

And let's remember; the last year data was available was 2016. Apparently it's supposed to come out every 2 years from the release of the last batch. The next batch is due in 2020. Let's guess if the increase in emissions will continue. If it does there will no longer be any room for deniability of the increase in emissions. Not even 2%.

What will you wishful thinkers do then?

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https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1658616

[BeaverFever]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

This point has already been made to you repeatedly: either you’re too dense or playing dumb 1.6% for ONE YEAR is NOMINAL. The targets may be overly agreeable but that’s not the same as your phony claim that taxes do nothing to curb emissions

And as has been patiently pointed out to you, the increase isn't just one year. The increase has been happening incrementally since 2010.

The decrease was larger and had been happening since before the carbon tax. Even so the increase in emissions is only 2% from the beginning of the carbon tax era. 1.6% for a single year looks pretty impressive next to that.

And let's remember; the last year data was available was 2016. Apparently it's supposed to come out every 2 years from the release of the last batch. The next batch is due in 2020. Let's guess if the increase in emissions will continue. If it does there will no longer be any room for deniability of the increase in emissions. Not even 2%.

What will you wishful thinkers do then?

But you keep missing the point: when compared to non-tax jurisdictions in Canada the increase in BC is less. Why do you think that is?

[N_Fiddledog]

I'm not sure what you're talking about:

B.C. lags other provinces in reaching greenhouse gas reduction targets

GORDON HOEKSTRA Updated: July 9, 2017

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Some provinces have already met their target for the 2030 greenhouse gas emission reductions that Canada committed to in the 2016 Paris agreement, an analysis by the National Energy Board shows.

Those provinces are Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, plus the Yukon territory. The two provinces have reduced emissions by 30 per cent by 2015 from 2005 levels, well ahead of the 2030 target date, according to the NEB data.

British Columbia lags behind. As of 2015, the province had reduced its carbon emissions by less than five per cent, according to the NEB figures.

There are provinces that have done worse. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, Manitoba and Nunavut have increased emissions since 2005.

Among the most populous provinces, Ontario had the greatest reduction, at just under 20 per cent. Quebec is down about 10 per cent and Prince Edward Island about 15 per cent.

“It is absolutely shocking that Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Yukon are meeting their targets and B.C. is far behind,” said Merran Smith, executive director of Vancouver-based Clean Energy Canada, a climate and energy think-tank that advocates green energy.

“B.C. was once a climate leader, but with a lack of action in the past six, seven years after (former B.C. premier) Gordon Campbell left, there has really been no action to address climate change...”

https://vancouversun.com/business/energ ... on-targets

[N_Fiddledog]

Also:

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According to the British Columbia government’s most recent GHG figures, emission from road transportation in 2007 — the year before the tax was brought in, which the province calls its “base year” — was 15.65 Mt. That increased 10.5% to 17.29 Mt by 2016, the most recent year data is available. Emissions from road transportation, which makes up 28% of the province’s total emissions, did decline somewhat in the early years of the tax. But it has increased almost every year from 2011 to 2016, a period where emissions from road transportation soared a staggering 19.3%.

By comparison, emissions from road transportation nationally grew only 2.9% during the same period — at a time when no other provinces had a carbon tax — according to the federal government’s National Inventory Report 1990-2016.

It’s no surprise that Statistics Canada also reports that gasoline sales in B.C. soared 13.8% from 2013 to 2017, well above the national rate of 5.2% during that period.

In other words, not only did the tax not reduce emissions for road transportation, emissions grew faster in B.C. than the rest of the country.

https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columni ... c-evidence