In an effort to reduce the environmental impact of the G7 Summit in Quebec, the federal government is investing in activities like the planting of 100,000 trees on Canada’s biosphere reserves. Saskatchewan has one of the country’s 18 biosphere reserves, at Redberry Lake, and it will be home to some of these trees. The trees are being planted this month at Aspen Innovation Park, which is about 7 kilometres west of Hafford on Highway 40. Today (Tues) is National TREE Project Planting Day in honour of this symbolic offset of part of the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the G7 Summit.
Trees Being Planted Because of the G7 Summit
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”