#UK: #London Transportation Agency Proposes $7.50 Entry Fee To Drive Into The City

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Drivers could be charged up to £5.50 a day $US $7.52) to enter Greater London under radical plans to restore the finances of Transport for London.

It's part of the transportation agency's detailed proposals of how it could break even in two years include the “assumptions” that the £3.50-a-day “boundary charge”, first proposed last month by Mayor Sadiq Khan, would include an additional £2 surcharge for more polluting vehicles.

London business owners worry, however that it will devastate business in an economy that is barely surviving due to Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns.

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#CANADA: Northwest Territories Assembly Has Two Weeks To Debate, Decide On, 16 Bills

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Members of the Northwest Territories' Legislative Assembly have a jam-packed agenda as they head into their last scheduled sitting before an Oct. 1 territorial election. There are 16 bills on the agenda and only two weeks to debate and vote on all of them.

The 18th Legislative Assembly reconvenes for two weeks starting on Monday. There are 16 pieces of legislation on the order paper, and only ten working days set to debate and vote on all of them. Among them is a bill that would lay the groundwork for a carbon tax.

The 19-member Assembly is non-partisan, and meets in Yellowknife, NWT.

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#CANADA: Trudeau Gov't To Impose Federal Carbon Tax; If Alberta Repeals Theirs

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The Federal government has announced that the federal carbon tax will go into effect on January 1st, in part as a reaction to Alberta's plan to end its provincial carbon tax. Since his election earlier this year, Alberta’s Premier Jason Kenney has tabled legislation to do away with the province’s own self-imposed carbon tax which sat at $30/ton.

Since Kenney and his United Conservative Party of Alberta promised to end the carbon tax, the federal government, led by Liberal Justin Trudeau, has warned that it would level the federal-level tax on the provinces. Now the federal government has followed through with that threat, telling the provinces that the federal levy will go into effect on January 1, 2020.

Conservatives note that the tax is contingent on Trudeau's Liberals winning re-election this October, with the national Conservative Party vowing to oppose New carbon taxes.

Pictured: Environment & Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna

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#FRANCE: Macron's Gov't "Delays" Carbon Tax Hikes To Quell Violent Riots

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In an attempt to quell violent riots in the streets of Paris, Pres. Emmanuel Macron has directed Prime Minister Edouard Philippe to announce rollbacks of planned fuel taxes and electricity price increases, part of a plan to roll back carbon dioxide emissions.

The prime minister announced the 6-month delay and imposing the taxes in a rare television address to the nation. Read more at

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#EU: EuroParl Supports New Carbon Cuts For Europe

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Following a debate on the announced US withdrawal from the Paris agreement, members of the European Parliament at the their plenary meeting on June 14 backed plans for new compulsory greenhouse gas cuts under the Paris agreement. The law covers close to two third of EU carbon emissions. These cuts, they believe, will help deliver on the EU’s overall target for 2030 on all policies – a 40% cut from 1990 levels, the European Parliament said in a press release, adding that the EU is committed to these cuts in the framework of the Paris Agreement.

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#CANADA: Saskatchewan Environment Min. Says Province Will "Never" Be Part Of Carbon Tax Plan

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Saskatchewan Environment Minister Scott Moe says his province will do whatever it takes to keep Ottawa from forcing it to implement a carbon tax. Moe’s federal counterpart, Catherine McKenna, says she’s “optimistic" both Saskatchewan and Manitoba will eventually join the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Moe says Saskatchewan has plans to meet its emissions reductions targets using clean technology and innovation, but it will take Ottawa to court before allowing a carbon price.

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