Going green, making money: a new case for carbon pricing
IISD president Scott Vaughan offers up a new argument in support of getting a working carbon pricing system up and running in Canada: selling more clean hydro to the Americans.
IISD president Scott Vaughan offers up a new argument in support of getting a working carbon pricing system up and running in Canada: selling more clean hydro to the Americans.
In this video Western Producer reporter Robin Booker asked Richard Grosshans why he is researching cattail harvesting, when producers might see a cattail biomass industry in the Prairies, and whether some of the nutrients cattails absorb can be recaptured for use on the farm.
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"Right now, the easiest market is for the replacement of coal," Grosshans said. (The province's ban on coal for heating takes effect July 1, 2017.) "Cattail is an excellent biomass heat source, like wood."
"Almost 96% of those surveyed in a pilot project by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) found the DBT required too much paperwork, requests from multiple authorities for a range of documents including electricity bills, ration cards, bank passbooks and identification cards. This represents a non-trivial cost to access the reengineered process."
Senior Fellow Dr. Harsha Singh speaks to the Globe and Mail about megaregional deals.