Saskatchewan offers about $409 million in fossil fuel subsidies, but the lack of a public record makes it hard to get a clear picture of foregone revenue,…
“Transparency in government spending in general is important, fossil fuel industry or not,” Vanessa Corkal, author of the“Taxpayers deserve to know where their money is going.”
The five projects flagged as particular issues in the report don’t appear with specific dollar amounts in the main budget document Eyre pointed to. “There’s plenty of nuance behind the scenes that I think the authors should have looked at and talked to the province about and done further due diligence on,” she said.
The report’s definition of a subsidy should probably be seen in the light of whether it reduces emissions or not, he said. In 2016, the provincial auditor cast doubts over the farm fuel exemption, prompting the province to eliminate bulk purchases of gasoline and reduced the exemption for diesel. A Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers spokesman said the report takes aspects of tax measures and royalty programs and mischaracterizes them as subsidies.Article content
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