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Posted on 06/15/2009 8:36:27 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
It looks like public hospitals in British Columbia, Canada, will have to cut patient services in order to comply with global warming laws established by the provincial government, says Paul Chesser, a correspondent with the Heartland Institute.
According to the Surrey Leader:
The Lower Mainland's health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.'s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints. Critics say the payments mean the government's strategy to fight climate change will further exacerbate a crisis in health funding. "You have public hospitals cutting services to pay a tax that goes to another 100 per cent government-owned agency," National Democratic Party health critic Adrian Dix said.
For example:
The Fraser Health Authority will pay $616,000 in carbon tax this year, rising to $821,000 next year, officials there said. And by 2010 Fraser will pay $1.3 million a year to the province's Pacific Carbon Trust to offset its projected 52,600 tons of carbon emissions released. Vancouver Coastal Health Authority also expects its costs will be close to $2 million next year in combined carbon tax and offset payments. And while human life is threatened, of course, the stated objective of global warming kooks is once again undermined: Dix warned that some of the potential cuts -- such as closing the emergency room at Mission Memorial Hospital -- would actually increase carbon emissions by sending patients further afield.
"Obviously when you shut down regional centers it makes people travel farther to get to their health care facility," he said.
Source: Paul Chesser, "Another 'Green' Policy That Leads to Death," GlobalWarming.org, June 11, 2009; based upon: Jeff Nagel, "Carbon Costs Add to Health Regions' Woes," Surrey North Delta Leader, June 11, 2009.
For text:
http://www.globalwarming.org/2009/06/11/another-green-policy-that-leads-to-death/
For Leader text:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/news/47823327.html
For more on Global Warming Impacts and Responses:
http://environment.ncpa.org/issues/?c=economics
For more on Global Warming:
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=32
Global Warming on Free Republic
The ice cream truck is passing as I write...
He’s got to go...
His products come from cows...
Cows are the enemy...
We can live without milk, cream, ice cream, yogurt, etc...
Just dont eat the grass...
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Guess this needs a /s
Global Warming PING!
Don’t feel like doing the fancy DOOMAGE graphic over again. See #21 for the usual links.
Then so was the cap and trade scheme for power plant sulfur emissions imposed by the Clean Air Act amendments back in the 1990s. That scheme actually worked, mainly because the technology to limit the emissions was actually readily available, unlike with the current cap and trade scheme, which will simply cause our electricity rates to "skyrocket" (0).
thanks, bfl
thanks, bfl
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