Insights and Stories on Carbon Pricing

Carbon price exemption for farm gas clears Commons

Mar. 30, 2023 at 6:47 am CDT

Legislative amendments that would exempt farmers’ eligible purchases of natural gas and propane from federal carbon pricing are now en route to Canada’s Senate. Bill C-234, a private member’s bill sponsored by Ben Lobb, the Conservative MP for the southern Ontario riding of Huron-Bruce, passed third reading for adoption in […]

New farm fuel carbon tax rule to return to Commons

Nov. 18, 2022 at 2:24 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Clean ag tech adoption fund open for applications

Jun. 17, 2021 at 4:05 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Federal budget to offer direct payments to farmers for carbon pricing

Apr. 19, 2021 at 4:50 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Top court upholds federal carbon pricing policy

Mar. 25, 2021 at 8:28 pm CDT

By Nia Williams Steve Scherer

No credit expected for farmers’ past work in new carbon market

Mar. 5, 2021 at 8:13 pm CST

Draft regulations for Canada’s new carbon market show Canadian farmers won’t receive credit for removing any greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the atmosphere prior to 2017. Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson on Friday announced the offset market, to be known as the Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System. A 60-day public […]

By D.C. Fraser

Carbon pricing not having ‘significant impact’ on grain drying, Bibeau says

Jun. 12, 2020 at 8:27 pm CDT

Ottawa — Grain drying costs an average of $210 to $819 per farm in carbon taxes, according to federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau. Her department used data provided by grower groups – including Manitoba’s Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) and the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) – to arrive at […]

By D.C. Fraser

Federal carbon tax rises despite opposition, pandemic

Apr. 6, 2020 at 4:54 pm CDT

Ottawa — The federal government has pushed ahead with an increase to the carbon tax despite continued calls from the agriculture sector for reprieve from the program. The price on carbon rose from $20 per tonne to $30 per tonne effective April 1. The federal Liberal government is standing firm […]

By D.C. Fraser

Carbon tax an eight per cent hit on net income, APAS says

Feb. 6, 2020 at 6:25 am CST

The average Saskatchewan farmer can expect to lose about eight per cent of his or her annual net farm income to the federal carbon tax to 2020 — and 12 per cent in 2022, the province’s general ag group says. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan on Monday released new […]

By GFM Staff

Green Party backs grain drying exemption from carbon tax

Jan. 20, 2020 at 3:29 pm CST

One of the federal opposition parties in full favour of carbon pricing is lending its support to calls by farm groups for a carbon tax break for grain drying. Vancouver Island MP Paul Manly, the Green Party’s caucus critic for agriculture, announced the party’s position Monday. “We support the grain […]

By GFM Staff

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