KAP and Carbon tax

[fjlip]

Farmers’ should be exempted from paying a price on any carbon emitted directly from agricultural production, KAP says. Direct emissions include those from burning fossil fuels and applying fertilizer to produce food or fibre, as well as methane from livestock.

However, farmers would pay indirectly when buying products or services, such as nitrogen fertilizer, because carbon prices paid by manufacturers would presumably be passed on.

KAP also wants some of the revenue from carbon pricing invested in helping farmers cut carbon emissions, sequester carbon and develop more climate-hardy crops.

“There was a lot of concern (during the discussion) and rightfully so,” KAP president Dan Mazier said after the meeting. “I think there is a lot of misinformation out there on what is going on in other provinces.”

Because Manitoba has few, large carbon emitters, agriculture contributes 40 per cent of the province’s gross emissions, KAP general manager James Battershill told the meeting.

The Paris agreement on climate change, which Canada has ratified, along with the United States, China, India, the European Union and many others, took effect Nov. 4.

Signing countries are legally bound to hold global warming to no more than 2 C above pre-industrial levels. To do so countries will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists say if that 2 C threshold is exceeded, climate change will likely be disastrous and irreversible.

oo, I am so f*cking scared of "warmer, drier" prairies!...my comment....


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[grassfarmer]

Don't be complaining about it being too wet then if you're not prepared to do anything about it. Cause and effect.

[biglentil]

Grass has the solution he has the world's only carbon dioxide sequestering cows. They exhale rainbows and their farts smell like daisies.

[stonepicker]

Foolish scientists to think that humans are the only cause of climate change over the last 50 years, and that we can keep the world temp. down by human intervention. I guess the last 6,000 years of climate change never really happened, because humans weren't a factor then. The emperor has no clothes!!

[bgmb]

Stupid idea KAP the biggest cost to farmers is going to be on fertilizer so if fertilizer isn't exempt could be 10-20 bucks an acre across the farm cost. So basically a farmer organization is supporting a $10-20/ac tax on its members?

[fjlip]

Don't be complaining about it being too wet then if you're not prepared to do anything about it. Cause and effect.

GRASS ! It's HOT and DRY, Cold and WET that go together! Most of us are sick and tired of COLD and WET!
YOU said yourself that GGD in COLD WET Alberta were HALF of MB!

And NO we could never change the climate....Taxes or GREEN....

[blackpowder]

Whatever the outcome shall be. I get a laugh envisioning Ma Nature listening to a few humans declare they wont allow the earth to warm 2°.
With food abundance and 75% of the pop food insecure, maybe work on that first???
If ISIS had lots of coal would they quit diggin? Would there be no buyers if the price was low enough??

[Hamloc]

The latest proposal by the federal Liberal's to reduce C02 output from 732 mega tonnes to 150 by 2050 is something we all need to be aware of. Irregardless of what you believe if this is imposed upon us by government the changes and higher costs are hard to comprehend. Would organic farming lower or raise net GHG emissions? How many industries would be downsized or eliminated? We can all get mad but it won't change what the governing elites are planning to do.

[15444]

No big deal fellas. Once the economy tanks for a few quarters, the Feds will back peddle big time. Either that, or SK will begin negotiations to join the US and Ontario will need all of Alberta's money, every cent, to pay for all the auto workers on social assistance. Why would any car company manufacture in Canada if they have to hike the value of it when they import into the US. #LetsMakeCanadaALoserAgain!

[Flatlander]

Only a busy body world improver could truly believe that taxing me on inputs relates to an adjustment in the weather. FM