When it comes to carbon taxes, Jason Kenney spent years crafting himself a reputation as one tough hombre. Last week his United Conservative Party government rolled out its plan to tackle climate change and at the heart of it is, yes, a carbon tax. It will replace the across-the board carbon-pricing system that the former NDP government brought in to align the province with Ottawa’s national carbon tax. Instead of being imposed on everyone, the new Alberta plan will put a carbon tax amounting to $30 per tonne on large industrial emitters. The bottom line: Kenney is recognizing that he can’t credibly continue to stand against all carbon pricing.

Source: thestar November 04, 2019 22:31 UTC