Alberta premier Jason Kenney shakes hands with Jason Nixon, Minister of Environment and Parks, after Nixon was sworn into office in Edmonton on Tuesday April 30.Alberta Environment Minister Jason Nixon says the new government’s climate-change strategy will focus on funding technology and working with industry, ahead of the start of a legislative session where its first move will be to scrap the provincial carbon tax.
The blueprint for the UCP’s climate strategy, unveiled earlier this year during the election campaign that brought Mr. Kenney to power, called for scrapping Ms. Notley’s carbon tax, as well as cancelling a plethora of renewable subsidies and energy-efficiency programs. Instead, the UCP said it would impose limits on emissions from large industrial facilities, requiring them to meet increasingly stronger targets or face a $20 a tonne tax.
Once it is fully designed and approved, the UCP’s plan will be Alberta’s third different type of carbon tax in a decade. Prior to Ms. Notley’s provincewide carbon tax, the previous Progressive Conservative government had created an emissions-reductions strategy similar to Mr. Kenney’s proposal that only taxed large emitters.
As a number of large and out-of-control wildfires burn across Northern Alberta, which required the evacuation of the town of High Level on Monday, Mr. Nixon was asked if the new government is treating climate change as a crisis. “We’re not in crisis mode. We’re focused on actually being able to address emissions where the previous government taxed people,” he said.
Could someone have offered the poor guy a box to stand on?
Who are the NDP again?
Just had an election over this, one party got 55% of the vote, all other parties combined got 45% of the vote. This issue has been decided.
Climate change is a natural process which has been taking place since the planet formed Limiting human impact on it and planning for the challenges and changes it will bring requires good policy not fear mongering and financial extortion