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Green Your Campbell Cash

VTACC has been working closely with The Tyee and other partners over the past month to develop a campaign promoting collective action with our coming climate action dividends. We invite you to check out the campaign online and get involved! Read on below for details

Cheers
Kevin
for VTACC

Dear Friend of Climate Action,

This month, you’ll receive a $100 cheque from the B.C. government.
Called the climate action dividend, it’s intended to help you reduce
your reliance on fossil fuels, and is part of B.C.’s “revenue neutral”
carbon tax announced earlier this year.

That’s $440 million going back into the hands of British Columbians to take action on climate change.

So what will you do with your $100?

When the carbon tax was announced in February’s provincial budget, and The Tyee first asked this question,
many readers suggested a collective approach. If we pool our resources,
we can have a much bigger impact than our individual $100 cheques ever
could.

And so, today we are pleased to invite you to the launch of the Green Your Campbell Cash
website developed by The Tyee, the Western Canada Wilderness Committee,
Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, the David Suzuki Foundation and
the Pembina Institute. The site is designed to showcase collective
climate action projects occurring throughout B.C. to which you can
pledge your support — and your climate action dividend.

How to Green Your Campbell Cash

B.C.-based organizations and individuals are invited to submit climate action projects
geared toward education, advocacy, public engagement, adaptation,
emission reductions or carbon capture. All projects will be reviewed by
Tyee staff prior to being published on the site, and those that meet
the campaign’s guidelines will receive their own project page
describing the scope of their project and fundraising goals.

As a visitor to the site, you can browse through the projects, vote
for your favourites and pledge your support by contacting project leads
directly to make a donation. You can also submit your own climate
action project.

If you’d rather spent your $100 some other way, you can share your commitment
with others on the site. You can also send your favourite projects to
your friends and social networks using the sharing tools provided.

Why Green Your Campbell Cash?

Maybe your neighbourhood could benefit from a community garden or a
bike co-op. Perhaps your child’s school could drastically reduce
emissions by switching to solar power. Whatever the case, we believe
that by taking collective action, we can take bigger steps against
climate change and work to ensure B.C.’s climate action dividend truly
makes a difference throughout B.C. communities. We hope you’ll join in
and Green Your Campbell Cash.

Sincerely,

Green Your Campbell Cash Founding Partners

http://www.greenyourcampbellcash.ca/

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Legislature, municipalities to vote on carbon tax

BC’s carbon tax is not yet law, and attention will be focused on the
measure in the legislature and at the North Central Municipal AGM in the
next few days.  This is a key time to show support for this tax, and
to press the province to provide support for local governments and
agencies as they gear up to lower emission from their
operations.

Tomorrow is the start of the North Central Municipal Association AGM in
Prince George.  Several municipalities and regional districts have
put forward resolutions opposing  the carbon tax, arguing that it
creates an unfair burden on their citizens because of  greater
travel distances and colder climate. The resolutions range from requests
for elimination, deferral, or exemption from the tax for north/central
municipalities, to requests that the province simply consider and
mitigate the economic impact of the tax on the Interior.  You can
view the resolutions here:

http://tinyurl.com/4lydw9

We think that a review of the available evidence doesn’t support the
argument that the carbon tax is an unfair burden on the Interior, as
emission related costs likely average across the province (information on
the fairness of the tax is provided on our web site).  VTACC is
encouraging citizens living in municipalities and districts which have
passed resolutions opposing the tax to contact their local governments to
express their support for the measure.  Email links and background
information are located at

http://tinyurl.com/4loqy4
. A list of
local governments and regional districts which have presented resolutions
opposing the tax is found at the bottom of this email.

On the other hand, it is clear that local governments and public agencies
such as school boards and health authorities all over BC will face higher
costs because of the carbon tax — and will not receive the corresponding
tax cuts delivered to individuals and small businesses.   While
we don’t think Victoria shouldn’t provide exemptions from the tax, we
think the province should use carbon tax revenue collected from local
governments and agencies to provide them with the resources needed to
lower emissions from their operations.  

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