Premier Rachel Notley says Alberta backs the concept of a national carbon price but won’t support the federal Liberal government’s plan without progress on pipelines. In Ottawa Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the federal Liberal government would set a minimum carbon price for provinces in 2018 of $10 per tonne, rising to $50 by 2022. In the House of Commons, Trudeau said it will be up to provinces how they implement the plan. Notley’s NDP government will introduce its own broad-based carbon tax based on the equivalent of $20 per tonne of carbon emissions on Jan. 1, 2017. “Alberta will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies,” said Notley.

Source: National Post October 03, 2016 17:15 UTC