Canwest News Service: Facing a half-billion-dollar hit from British Columbia’s looming new carbon tax, the province’s major industrial players are banding together in hopes of convincing the government to return more of the revenue-neutral tax to corporations. Representatives from the mining, cement, forestry and smelting industries will travel Friday to Victoria for the latest in a series of meetings with the province’s climate-change secretariat. Their goal is to impress upon government the damage they …