Carbon Tax Putting Heavy Burden on Farmers

Carbon Tax Putting Heavy Burden on Farmers
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Jason Unrau
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Fourth-generation Saskatchewan grain farmer Jeff Bennett says increasing the carbon tax won’t reduce his operation’s emissions and risks damaging agribusiness and bankrupting growers.

“Tesla is not making combines or tractors—we don’t have that option. But we are doing a very good job of growing environmentally sustainable crops in the global market we compete in, and to put a carbon tax on that makes absolutely no sense,” Bennett told The Epoch Times.