Former Liberal premier Iain Rankin: 'The practice has changed from a dedicated fund that had certainty and programs in place to looking at funds from general revenue at a time when they are not budgeted and in fact approved by the legislature.' - Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle HeraldIain Rankin says Nova Scotia’s energy efficiency programs are key to combatting climate change but the former Liberal premier says future program funding and priorities could be in jeopardy.
“Is that the practice moving forward, that we’re going to look at unbudgeted spending and an ad hoc basis to look at priorities in varying orders to get them approved by Treasury Board?”“I would say that the climate plan is the roadmap,” MacEachern said of the plan released in December by the majority Progressive Conservative in December that provided 68 actions framed by the latest provincial climate change risk assessment released days earlier.
“There is no more certainty through that program than there is in the program going forward but now we have a clear plan, we have clear legislation and a solid five-year plan, an established fund and flexibility in that fund so that we are not just reliant on what was previously the cap-and-trade funding.”
“With a full commitment to fund what is needed for the climate change action plan over the next five years, we feel very confident that all of our needs will be met and that that action plan will be fully implemented.” “Those revenues will go into the Green Fund,” he said. “After that, we’ll be transitioning to the output-based pricing system. That program is still under development and we also cannot say with certainty what the revenue will be in that but it is a carbon-pricing program that is also market based so it will be dependent on how the participants participate in that market in a similar way to the cap-and-trade program.
All Green Fund money allocated over the years as gone to Efficiency One, Clean Foundation and the Federation of Nova Scotia Municipalities. “The cap-and-trade program covers the period from 2019 to 2022 so the companies that are covered under cap-and-trade would have been collecting revenue during that period to apply to purchase the allowances in 2023 to complete their compliance requirements,” Hollet said.
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