Americas > UPDATE – Alberta opposition party pledges to weaken large emitter programme, eliminate climate plan

UPDATE – Alberta opposition party pledges to weaken large emitter programme, eliminate climate plan

Published 22:26 on March 31, 2019  /  Last updated at 19:13 on April 1, 2019  / Matthew Lithgow /  Americas, Canada, Carbon Taxes

Alberta’s poll-leading United Conservative Party (UCP) has pledged to soften the performance standards and excess emissions charge that make up the Canadian province’s pricing system for large installations, as well as scrap the ruling NDP’s climate plan that provides the basis for multiple other GHG reduction and clean energy goals.
Alberta’s poll-leading United Conservative Party (UCP) has pledged to soften the performance standards and excess emissions charge that make up the Canadian province’s pricing system for large installations, as well as scrap the ruling NDP’s climate plan that provides the basis for multiple other GHG reduction and clean energy goals.


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