Carbon Credits

[westernvicki]

Just wondering if any of the AG Associations that collect levy's from farmers are in the process of supporting a carbon tax credit for zero till producers? This would give us an offset to the increased costs at the very least.

[SASKFARMER3]

Our ag association are like a deer in the headlights. Ok wheat growers have their shit together with the petition. But this shiting Carbon Tax from JT is going to hurt and hurt bad.

[bucket]

If an acre of notill land can sequester a tonne of carbon....I think it will become profitable to grow grass and bale or graze.

Just waiting for rain.....no pollutants like fertilizer to pay for...

They will never pay a farmer for sequestering.... but they will pay nature conservancy of Canada.

[BreadWinner]

They say fertilizer gives off 1 ton of CO2 for every ton of fertlizer applied. That should screw up and carbon sequestration plan.

[tweety]

Are you sure farmers are actually sequestering more then they are releasing?

[furrowtickler]

Anyone using DEF sustems should be exempt . That's already a huge cost that's purpose is to reduce c02

[fjlip]

And TAX older engines more...think I heard that after sequestering while growing, dying crops/grass release all back to atmosphere?

[boarderbloke]

I don't think there's any chance the Liberal government will be taking any sequestration into account, because if they did, the opposition and citizenry would very quickly point out that Canada as a whole, with our crops, grass land and forests,,,,,would be a Zero Net contributor of carbon into the atmosphere. So the question then would be, why the concern about our carbon output and why the need to put in place such an economically damaging tax and Liberals would then have to defend that tax. Now,,,they're just using most peoples guilt, that they are bad, and destroying the planet.

I't's not about the carbon, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE TAX !

[bucket]

And Trudeau called it a tax yesterday in question period.


He's on the record as calling it a tax.

[Oliver88]

Saw these numbers pulled from Stats Can posted on Twitter: