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Editorial: Wheels within wheels

Agriculture major player in ‘Made-in-Manitoba Climate and Green Plan’
Increasing the biodiesel mandate could cut up to 431,000 tonnes of carbon by 2022, second only to reductions expected from the $25-a-tonne carbon tax

Legal opinion backs Pallister’s approach to carbon pricing
Manitoba’s ‘Green Plan’ to cut emissions will be out soon and the premier says he wants Manitobans’ feedback

Manitobans will see carbon price plan soon
But Premier Brian Pallister first wants to see the conclusions of a legal review on the constitutionality of Ottawa imposing a carbon tax on the provinces

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

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
Heavy reliance on inputs diverts cash
Nitrogen use can’t keep increasing if greenhouse gas emissions are to fall

Carbon tax effects could undermine rural support for PCs
Somerset farmer Gerry Demare proposes farmers pay the tax on inputs if they get the money back like they do with the GST

Frozen soils might be major emitter
A University of Manitoba study has discovered the previously overlooked emissions
