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KAP is frustrated with the Manitoba government’s lack of information on a 
made-in-Manitoba carbon tax, KAP general manager James Battershill told delegates at KAP’s advisory council meeting in Brandon July 13.
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KAP frustrated by lack of detail on Manitoba’s carbon tax

A new Manitobans Against Carbon Taxes Coalition is pressuring the 
provincial government to join Saskatchewan to fight the tax

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Frustration is growing over a lack of information on Manitoba government’s carbon tax. “We are a little bit sick and tired of starting to negotiate and discuss this issue in a vacuum without information from the province on what it is looking at,” Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) general manager James Bat­ters­hill told KAP delegates at
Manitoba continues to invest in hydroelectricity, such as the proposed Conawapa generating station, seen here in a Manitoba Hydro rendering.
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Manitoba getting a carbon tax, amount uncertain

Premier Pallister says Ottawa’s $50-a-tonne tax by 2022 is too high and doesn’t reflect the investment Manitobans have, and continue to make, 
into producing clean hydro electricity

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Manitobans will pay a carbon tax, but how much may depend on the courts. Last week Premier Brian Pallister reiterated Manitoba will implement a ‘made-in-Manitoba’ carbon tax, but added the federal government’s plan to impose a $50-a-tonne carbon tax, starting at $10 in 2018 and peaking by 2022 if provinces don’t do it themselves, is
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Climate change is real: Pallister

Premier says Manitobans are citizens of the world and must do their part

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Climate change is real and Manitobans are willing to do their part to mitigate it, says Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister. “I don’t think there are many farmers left out there who don’t really have a pretty good understanding of the dangers of not addressing climate change,” Pallister said in an interview May 11. “So I
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says a made-in-Manitoba carbon tax will be better for farmers than one imposed by the federal government.
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Manitoba’s carbon tax better for farmers than Ottawa’s: Pallister

The premier says farmers are price takers and he doesn’t want a plan
that will hurt farmers or the provincial economy

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Manitoba’s carbon tax will be designed either in Manitoba or Ottawa, and Premier Brian Pallister says his version won’t undermine the provincial economy or the competitiveness of Manitoba farmers. However, details of either plan remain. “(O)ur plan is going to be one that works far better for Manitobans,” Pallister said in an interview May 11.
Juliane Schaible (centre) with the Manitoba government’s Department of Sustainable Development told the Manitoba Sustainable Energy Association’s (ManSEA) annual meeting April 5 a $10 carbon tax would cost a Manitoba household, on average, an extra 26 cents a day. Schaible discussed carbon pricing during a panel discussion with Curtis Hull (l) of Climate Change Connections, Dale Friesen of Manitoba Hydro, Terry Shaw of the Manitoba Trucking Association and Daryl Domitruk of Manitoba Agriculture.
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Carbon tax impact discussed at sustainable energy association AGM

A tax of $10 a tonne would cost the average Manitoban an extra 26 cents a day, but farmers are still in the dark about their potential bill

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Manitoba farmers are debating a carbon tax, but it isn’t easy since the provincial government hasn’t released any details. Taxing carbon is meant to discourage emissions. But as “price-takers,” farmers fear taxing it will reduce their competitiveness and profits. The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) wants farmers exempted from paying a tax on carbon emitted directly
KAP’s advisory council further refined the general farm organization’s carbon tax policy at its April 20 meeting passing of a resolution to review all other options, including a GST-style approach so farmers could get carbon taxes in products they buy rebated. KAP’s standing policy to exempt agricultural production from the tax so farmers remain internationally competitive, credit farmers for their beneficial practices protecting the environment and for government to show where every carbon tax dollar is raised and spent, remains in place.
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Keystone Agricultural Producers adds detail to its carbon tax policy

Some KAP delegates argued the farm group should oppose a carbon tax, 
but others said since a tax was inevitable KAP should help government 
create a tax that won’t make farmers uncompetitive

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Keystone Agricultural Producers’ (KAP) carbon tax policy was further refined at its advisory council meeting here April 20. But an almost hour-long debate on five carbon tax-related resolutions revealed some KAP members want KAP to oppose a carbon tax. “We want to wait and get everybody (in competing agricultural countries) on board before we move
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KAP’s carbon tax position pre-April 20

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At its advisory council April 20, KAP delegates passed several resolutions to KAP’s carbon tax policy, including a call to review all options, including a GST-style approach so farmers could get carbon taxes in products they buy rebated. The following is KAP’s carbon tax policy as of March 30, which was reaffirmed at the April
The case for a carbon tax (and refund system)
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The case for a carbon tax (and refund system)

Only with a well-structured refund mechanism will a carbon tax be fair to farmers

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Carbon taxes are controversial. Especially contentious is the question of whether such taxes should be applied to farmers. Before farmers make up their minds about carbon taxes, it’s important that they encounter a clear explanation of how a well-structured agricultural carbon tax could work, and how such a tax could help increase net farm incomes.
National Post columnist Andrew Coyne told the Canadian Global Grains Symposium in Calgary that a carbon tax is the most efficient way to discourage carbon emissions because it’s market driven instead of regulatory.
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Carbon tax more efficient than regulations: Coyne

And just because the Americans don’t have one doesn’t mean Canada will be less competitive, according to the National Post columnist

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If Canadians want to cut carbon emissions to mitigate climate change, a carbon tax is the most efficient way to do it, says National Post, columnist Andrew Coyne. “My economics training tells me that’s the best way to approach this,” Coyne told the Canadian Global Crops Symposium April 12. “Carbon pricing I guarantee you is

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