The Chemistry Industry of Canada (CIAC) welcomed the Government of Canada’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan today and its plan to help industries develop and adopt clean technology in their journey to net-zero emissions. Of note, CIAC was pleased to see the plan include a commitment to an investment tax credit for capital invested in carbon […]
On April 9, CIAC held a press conference and met with numerous government official to sound the alarm on the Government of Canada’s proposed Clean Fuel Standard (CFS). To start out the day, CIAC Chair and President of BASF Canada, Marcelo Lu and CIAC President and CEO Bob Masterson held a press conference to the […]
The Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC) welcomes the publication of the Generation Energy Council Report Canada’s Energy Transition: Getting to Our Energy Future, Together. Established by Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr in October 2017, the Council was tasked with engaging Canadians and providing advice to inform the Government of Canada as it develops an […]
Isabelle Des Chênes, CIAC Executive Vice-President, and Shannon Watt, Director of Environment and Health Policy, appeared before the Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources on May 3, 2018. Senators are conducting a pre-study of the provisions of Bill C-74, the budget implementation bill, that deal with the government’s plan to price greenhouse […]
CIAC President and CEO Bob Masterson underscored the chemistry sector’s crucial role to achieving Canada’s emission reduction challenge when he appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources in February 2017. The resulting recommendations were published earlier this month in a report called Decarbonizing Heavy Industry: The Low-Carbon Transition of Canada’s Emission-Intensive […]
Ottawa to levy tax against polluting industries in non-compliant provinces under planned carbon-pricing regime In response to the Liberal government tabling the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, Bob Masterson, President and CEO of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC), told the Globe and Mail in an article published March 28 that Ottawa should let […]