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Damage to Business Forces British Columbia to Rethink Carbon Tax

By Mart | Published: May 6, 2012
Here is more evidence of the global retreat from climate change policies. British Columbia, which enacted a bold set of climate change policies designed to dramatically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions five years ago, has now called for an extensive review, National Geographic reports.
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California’s Prosperity Terminating Lessons for the UK

By Martin Fluck | Published: September 19, 2010
As if the UK economy doesn’t have enough problems, the new coalition government is going out of its way to create new ones, by pursuing its self-indulgent ‘clean’ energy policy. You’d imagine that it would be self evident that cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 34% within 10 years is completely hair brained – and reducing emissions by 80% in 2050 is economic suicide. But developments in California may soon highlight the prosperity terminating effect of such clean energy policies – now that it has become a major election issue in the California midterms.
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