Jason Kenney vowed to cancel the province’s carbon tax and launch a constitutional challenge to Ottawa’s climate policies; Rachel Notley has set her sights on building more petrochemical and upgrading projects
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Alberta’s carbon tax, introduced after Rachel Notley’s New Democrats won power in 2015 and set it at $30 a tonne, is at the centre of the province’s climate change plan, along with a 100-megatonne limit on emissions from the oil sands.“The NDP carbon tax is killing jobs,” said Mr. Kenney, speaking to workers in hard hats at an iron works company. “By May 30 of this year, the Alberta carbon tax will be history.
During Ms. Notley’s time in office, she approved more than $2-billion in incentives to open new facilities that produce plastics, fabrics, fuels and fertilizers. The government said late last year that the upgrading program had generated more than $20-billion in private investment so far.
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