Canada province may slap carbon tax on US coal exports
Ottawa
BRITISH Columbia's (BC) premier threatened to impose a C$70 (S$71) carbon tax on US thermal coal exports if she is re-elected next week.
"Ideally, the federal government will act on our request to ban thermal coal in our ports - but if they don't, British Columbia will charge a carbon levy on it," Christy Clark said at a lumber plant in southern BC on Tuesday, adding that it would "make it uncompetitive to ship through BC ports".
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