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On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:20:01PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> 
> > Of course, actually implementing such a scheme politically is up to
> > you... Have fun watching imports suddenly get a lot cheaper, relatively
> > speaking...
> >   
> This is the big problem, taxing carbon emmision will simply drive carbon 
> producing industries offshore where they can avoid the tax.
> 
> Taxing carbon extraction will simply mean that extraction is performed 
> in other parts of the world and the results imported (afaict most carbon 
> based fuels are not extracted in the west anyway).

Looking into the future "not-west" countries have roughly two-thirds of
all proven oil reserves. But that figure is way off due to stuff like
the Canadian oil sands. Actually if there isn't major development of
stuff like artic oil/gas reserves Canada will become the next
Middle-East, with the second largest reserves after Saudi Arabia. Much
of that possible artic oil/gas could end up in Canada's claim to the
arctic as well.

Politically though I'd be surprised if much could be done to slow down
the tar sands developments, the politics of it in Alberta are
unstoppable. Arctic oil would be the exact same thing, as that could end
up in the domain of northern canada, where the politics are of course
controlled by the natives living there and they don't give a damn about
environmental issues in comparison to actually having a livelyhood in
the future.

Not that I've said anything about coal...


BTW My dad is an economist working in economic development for the
government up north... So take all the above with a pinch of seeing the
forest for the trees. Maybe all too literally, he's got a forestry
degree... :)

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