VICTORIA — Here are highlights of the 2023 British Columbia budget presented Tuesday. All costs are over three years, unless otherwise stated: $6.4 billion in new health spending, including $2.6 billion for health services such as cancer care, $1. Minister of Finance Katrine Co...
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British Columbia Premier David Eby will raise the province's film incentive to 36% in response to increased competition and an industrywide downturn.
British Columbia's budget in 2015 will see a $6 million increase in the provincial mining ministry's budget to provide for more regulatory inspections, the creation of a major projects office and the extension of industry tax credits, Premier Christy Clark said Jan. 27. Clark told members at...
When the University of British Columbia hosted a symposium to debate vaccination safety in the light of their discoveries, their effort to arouse more critical thinking and open dialogue on the topic ran into even greater opposition than had been anticipted. A number of University's own tenured ...
Introduction The proposal to eliminate British Columbia’s consumer carbon tax is stirring debate across …
The move comes weeks after California Gov. Gavin Newsomvowedto increase the state’s tax incentive from $330 million a year to $750 million. (California’s population is seven times larger than British Columbia’s, and its economy is 18 times larger.) ...
This paper uses the inventory of three actively managed forest estates located in the Coastal, Central Interior, and Northern Interior forest regions in British Columbia to estimate the cost to produce Carbon credits ($ per Carbon credit) when the harvest is reduced below the baseline level. The...
doi:10.4236/lce.2012.34019Balbinder DeoHan DonkerMichael SchulzScientific ResearchLow Carbon EconomyDeo B, Donker H, Schulz M (2012) Carbon credits on private lands in British Columbia. Low Carbon Economy 3:144–153
The forest inventory of an actively managed forest estate in the Coast forest region of British Columbia was used to investigate the potential of fluctuating harvest levels to produce carbon credits. Fluctuating harvest levels allowed the target harvest level to fluctuate between the baseline and a ...