{"id":13329,"date":"2018-06-18T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T19:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=13329"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T19:13:02","slug":"ndp-says-fords-anti-environment-move-comes-with-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/18\/ndp-says-fords-anti-environment-move-comes-with-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP says Ford\u2019s anti-environment move comes with costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jun 18, 2018 @ 15:10<\/b><\/p>\n

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Doug Ford\u2019s anti-environment crusade will put Ontario\u2019s air, water and land at risk \u2013 and cost people and the province billions.<\/p>\n

Ford announced Friday he\u2019ll remove the cap on how much industrial operations are allowed to pollute, despite having no plan for a replacement climate change strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes Doug Ford not believe in climate change, or does he just think a climate strategy is not part of his job?\u201d asked Peter Tabuns, the NDP MPP-elect for Toronto-Danforth. \u201cScrapping all clean-air and climate change initiatives will hurt Ontario \u2013 and doing that without any sort of a replacement carbon reduction initiative is completely irresponsible.<\/p>\n

\u201cOntario families deserve clean lakes, and healthy smog-free air. They deserve a plan to leave our children and grandchildren with a province at least as clean and beautiful as the province we inherited from our parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tabuns said the financial costs of ripping up the cap-and-trade market contracts may be enormous for people, companies and the province. Withdrawing Ontario from the cap-and-trade market without a replacement program means Doug Ford risks a lengthy legal battle \u2013 paid for by Ontario families \u2013 with the federal government, who require provinces to have a carbon reduction strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cOntario businesses have spent billions on carbon allowances, including hundreds of millions on carbon allowances that apply to the period starting in 2021,\u201d said Tabuns. \u201cIf cap-and-trade is scrapped and these allowances are now worthless in Ontario, will the province be on the hook to compensate those businesses? And how will Mr. Ford replace the $1.9 billion per year that the cap-and-trade auction brings in for the province? Will he be making another $2 billion in cuts to programs Ontarians count on?<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we saw with the Liberals\u2019 cancelled gas plants scandal, costs can climb very quickly when you start ripping up contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ontario does not have a carbon tax. It participates in a cap-and-trade market with Quebec and California. Under cap-and-trade, big polluters have a limit on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and emissions allowances are bought and traded.<\/p>\n

SOURCE –\u00a0Peter Tabuns, the NDP MPP-elect for Toronto-Danforth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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