Source: Globe and Mail

Very few environment-related provisions were included in the Canadian federal budget announced yesterday, “except for $240-million to help Saskatchewan develop a clean coal power plant with an underground carbon dioxide sequestration system, $250-million over five years for automotive research on clean car technologies, $66-million to develop regulations for a carbon emissions trading market, and $500-million on public transit.”

The newly green Conservatives may not want to do anything to slow down the economy, but they appear to be putting the brakes on gas-guzzling SUVs with a new environmental levy that could come to as much as $4000.