Healthy Environment: Sustainable Prosperity

Sustainable Prosperity: "You often hear people say you can't have an healthy environment and a strong economy," said Stewart Elgie, a University of Ottawa professor of law and economics. "B.C.'s experience shows that's not true.", according to CBC. Sustainable Prosperity has released a report that shows since the carbon tax shift was introduced in 2008, B.C.'s consumption of fossil fuels has been reduced nearly 19 per cent per capita compared to the rest of Canada, while the province's gross domestic product has kept pace with the country's and When B.C. Premier Christy Clark sits down with her fellow provincial and territorial leaders Wednesday, she might trumpet her government's carbon tax success at what many critics said was impossible: reducing fossil fuel consumption without damaging the economy, the author of a new study suggests. Elgie is chair of Sustainable Prosperity, a national network of economics and environment professors funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.