Over 160 schools in Saskatchewan are going to be getting some form of energy efficiency upgrade. The cost of the projects in total will equal 12 million dollars with the federal government saying that money is coming from the collection of the carbon tax in Saskatchewan. The federal government says 90 percent of the money […]
The Western Wheat Growers Association is upset with the federal minister of Agriculture. Last week, Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau turned down a request for a carbon tax rebate on grain drying, calling the amount insignificant. Western Canadian Wheat Growers President Gunter Jochum disagrees, and wants her replaced. He says the department of agriculture averaged […]
Farmers in Saskatchewan are disappointed Ottawa has closed the door on a rebate on carbon tax for drying grain from last fall’s harvest. Agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says the carbon tax on grain drying was not significant. But APAS president Todd Lewis says it cost thousands of dollars for many farmers. For some farmers, he […]
While the pandemic is wreaking havoc on the economy is not the time for a carbon tax. That from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation which is lobbying for an end to the tax or at least a delay until the economy turns around. Prairie Director, Aaron Wudrick, says the federal government is making life more expensive […]
The Western Canadian Wheat Growers is calling on Ottawa to roll-back the ten dollar a ton hike in the federal carbon tax, which came into effect Wednesday. Wheat Growers Chair Daryl Fransoo of Glaslyn says the 50 percent hike in the carbon tax is bad timing when the economy is in facing a major pandemic, […]
Grain movement backlog and the carbon tax will be among the issues raised at the SARM annual meeting, which opens Monday in Regina. SARM president Ray Orb remains hopeful the federal government will provide some form of support for farmers who faced a tough harvest and a costly carbon tax on fuel used for drying […]
EDMONTON — The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that the federal carbon tax is not constitutional. In a 4-1 decision, the court says the legislation that brought in the tax erodes provincial jurisdiction. The Alberta government had argued in its challenge of the tax that climate change isn’t a national issue requiring overriding federal intervention. The federal government countered […]
There are many topics to cover in a limited amount of time for Ray Orb, president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities. The rail blockades are dominating national media coverage and are impacting grain exports as well. “The grain movement is reported about every two days, so we can see the unloads at the […]
The “Harvest From Hell” now has its own official website. The term was coined last fall while Western Canadian farmers struggled with weather conditions to combine the 2019 crop. Some growers were not able to finish the harvest with an estimated two million metric tonnes of canola left to take off on the Prairies this spring. […]
Federal Agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau is still considering some type of relief for farmers facing high costs from the carbon tax for grain drying. Last week APAS released a report showing the carbon tax will take eight percent or $8,000 to $10,000 from farmers this year. Within two years, the rising tax will cost farmers […]
