Alberta will not support the prime minister's national carbon price plan until the federal government makes serious progress on a pipeline from the Alberta oilsands to an ocean port, Premier Rachel Notley said Monday. "This has to be concurrent with a pipeline," Notley said moments after Justin Trudeau announced his plan. $50 a tonne by 2022Premier Rachel Notley wants the government to move on pipelines concurrently with implementing a new national price on carbon. If neither a carbon pollution price or cap and trade system is in place by 2018, the government of Canada will implement a price in that jurisdiction, he said. Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said he opposes any plan to impose a national price on carbon.

Source: CBC News October 03, 2016 17:48 UTC