Courtesy of Forest and Kim Starr via Flickr.

By Veronica Beltran

carbon tax relief grants

Greenhouse operators able to apply for carbon tax relief grant

Apr 6, 2020 | 11:49 AM

VICTORIA—Greenhouse operators are now able to apply for carbon tax relief grants for the 2020 production year, according to the BC government.

Commercial producers in the province who grow vegetables, ornamental flowers and plants, forest seedlings and nursery plants are eligible to apply for the grant—Cannabis is not an eligible crop at any phase of production.

You are eligible if:

• had sales exceeding $20,000 in 2019
• used natural gas or propane to heat their greenhouses or produce carbon dioxide; and
• had a production area greater than 455 square metres

The grant covers up to 80 percent of the carbon tax that commercial greenhouse growers of eligible crops paid on the natural gas and propane they used for greenhouse heating and carbon dioxide production in 2019.

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In 2018 nearly 120,000 tonnes of vegetables were grown in greenhouses, including tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplants and lettuce.

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Photo Courtesy, Forest and Kim Starr via Flickr, original image.