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Originally Posted by Urban_Sky
Now compare that with VIA Rail, which had total GHG emissions of 146,212 tons CO2-equivalents, according to its 2019 Sustainability report, thus representing an annual tax payment of $7.3 million, assuming your $50/ton carbon tax. The main driver for sustainability in the intercity passenger rail industry of this country will continue to be a modal shift away from more pollutant modes much rather than electrification (which would be an expensive solution to a - in the scale of things - negligible problem)...
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Do you know, how does VIA pay carbon prices? Does it just pay for diesel through commercial vendors in each province, paying the same as what everyone else does? Or does VIA have some special system, or exemption?