From the Vancouver Sun:
Carbon credits: only from the U.S., you say?
It's all supposed to be about saving the planet. But fighting global warming is creating the political environment for another wave of economic protectionism in the United States. Carbon could change the flow of North American and global trade.
Call it the rise of the carbon tariff. It turns out the "decarbonizing" of the atmosphere is seen by many south of the border as a useful lever in saving U.S. manufacturing jobs and reversing the country's unsustainable trade deficit.
Canada, and British Columbia, better be paying close attention....MORE