By Brian Curry, Ottawa Citizen Letter to the Editor, April 20, 2015
Re: Cap and trade is a revenue generator, April 16. Columnist Randall Denley’s
views on Ontario’s recent agreement with Quebec on a cap-and-trade system for
carbon emissions misses one important potential outcome. By encouraging
companies to find innovative ways to reduce their emissions, new technologies
will most likely result. These companies can then patent and sell innovative
technologies to other corporations, here in Canada and in other countries. There
is and will be huge market opportunities for emission-reduction technologies,
especially in the emerging economies where environmental issues are becoming an
increasing concern. These include China, Brazil and India to name but three
major players. via
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