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Thursday, April 29, 2021

Externalities - unpaid cost of cars - radioactive oil industry waste

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What the oil & gas industry innocently refers to as "brine," a waste product from fracking, can have 443x the radium the Nucle...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

One externalitiy -- unpaid cost -- of cars and sprawl, is cancer

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It’s been more than a dozen years since the metaphorical alarm was first sounded, and yet the residents of Fort Chipewyan still don’t know...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

UK to spend £27.4bn over next five years on roads

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On the back of new chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement of £27.4bn in investment for the UK’s roads in today’s budget, the Department of ...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

New Zealand car drivers are subsidized by rate-payers

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But a surprisingly large amount don’t seem to know that driving does as well – 90% of roads in New Zealand are not fully funded out of fue...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Half of new oil production in US requires subsidy at $50 price

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"We find that, at recent oil prices of US$50 per barrel, tax preferences and other subsidies push nearly half of new, yet-to-be-devel...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

British Columbia giving taxpayer gift of $5.35 billion gift to Gas company

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The “right” fiscal framework amounts to a bouquet of government subsidies for B.C.’s largest carbon polluter, including tax reprieves, ta...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Anti-business tax to support cars - let's get cars off welfare

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Densely populated metropolitan areas like New York City have become ground zero for clashes among cars, bikes and trucks competing for lim...