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Carbon Pricing and Mind

3 Feb 2015

Although the trial auction raised only $30 million, the province expects that the total proceeds                                                                                                               1 Preliminary findings from (Beck, Rivers, Wigle, and Yonezawa 2014) cast doubt on the basis for this concern. [...]                                                                                                               5  Indeed  the  Quebec  climate  plan  makes  explicit  reference  to  this  fact  (Quebec  2012,  ii). [...]                                                                                                               7  Alberta’s  taxes  are  already  among  the  lowest  in  Canada. [...] The recently elected majority Liberal                                                                                                               8  Indeed,  the  cost  of  the  feed- ‐in  tariff  is  ultimately  born  by  consumers. [...] In fact, Clinch, Dunne, and Dresner (2006) recommend a portfolio approach to the allocation of environmental tax revenues in the European context; a combination of earmarking of parts of the revenues for environmental                                                                                                               13  The  carbon  price  did  not  apply  to  emissions  from  transporta.

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