Abstract
This dissertation is an attempt to determine the economic impact of tax changes and the introduction of environmental controls on mineral extracting industries. The theory developed is applicable to any mineral extracting industry that encounters tax changes or pollution restriction. The empirical portion of this dissertation is concerned with how specific tax and environmental changes apply to the mineral industries of Canada and Ontario. The study estimates the effect of the recent Canadian and Ontario tax and environmental changes upon long-run investment. Canada and Ontario mineral industries are chosen because they are adjusting at this time to the types of changes in question. Since the tax and environmental changes considered are structural changes to the economic system, there is no record of industry response to such past alterations of these variables. Therefore predictive equations, based on past evidence of tax variation and environmental control variation, cannot be derived. This study instead relies upon modification of standard economic theory to estimate the impact of the structural changes.
Bennett, Gordon Larguier (1977). The impact of environmental controls and taxes on mining. Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -357276.