The 2016 Alberta Budget has been announced along with the implementation of Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan:
- Phasing out coal-fired electricity generation;
- Developing renewable energy;
- Legislating a limit on oil sands emissions; and
- Targeting a 45% reduction in methane gas emissions from the oil and gas sector.
The implementation of the Climate Leadership Plan by Budget 2016 also includes preliminary details of a Carbon Levy that will become effective on January 1, 2017. You can find BLG's full analysis here.
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