A report on savings and service improvements from the City of Saskatoon indicates over $30-million in efficiencies, revenues and additional funding in 2017. Part of that is over $4.5-million in operational efficiencies and additional revenue, $800-thousand in savings from improved Information Technology initiatives, and the big one was Saskatoon Land delivering over $25-million. Greenhouse gas emissions for the City were reduced by approximately 48-thousand tonnes a year, which is the equivalent of taking over 10-thousand cars off the road. Recycling programs diverted just under 28-thousand tonnes of waste from the Saskatoon Landfill, extending its life.
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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.”