Carbon tax 'revenue not environmental measure', critic says: British Columbia government reviewing carbon tax

摘要

When British Columbia (B.C.) became the first jurisdiction in North America to introduce a carbon tax in 2008, it seemed that it would be in their vanguard of a new social movement. Other jurisdictions across the continent would surely follow. That was the plan. Fast-forward to 2012, and B.C. still stands largely alone among North American carbon-taxing jurisdictions, an unexpected development that led the government to announce in February 2012 that the carbon tax would be reviewed.