Alberta freezes the amount of carbon taxes on large issuers star-news.press/wp

Alberta Minister of Environment, Rebecca Schulz, accompanied by the Prime Minister of Danielle Smith, announces that the amount of the main emission taxes will be frozen $ 95 per $ 95₂And this, with “unlimited term” and immediate effect.

The Albertan government says he has consulted the energy sector. The industry has told us that it would be harmful to the additional increase in $ 100 carbon taxesreveal Danielle Smith Monday morning.

Next year, carbon industrial taxes should increase $ 110 per tonne emission, and reach $ 170 to 2030.

Countries around the world are looking for products that we produce daily, have petrochemical products, minerals, wood or other resources. For ten years, our province has faced the wave of federal politics, agriculture and resource exploitationhe said Rebecca Schulz.

The Minister of Environment added the frost of carbon prices It will offer a stable, predictable and effective environment for companies to be competitive.

Uncertainty

According to Dale BeininThe director of the Canadian Climate Institute, the announcement of the morning Monday, creates more uncertainty for the energy sector. There are, there are or future projects (energy), partly reducing programs to earn money to earn money. This is precisely what this policy allows.

By changing the rules of the game, we also create uncertainty, suggesting that they could still changeincrease Dale Beinin.

In addition, the price system of the main transmitters, in its current form, is based on compliance with the minimum standards of federal government rigor.

Provinces and territories can design pricing systems adapted to their particular circumstances if they meet minimum state standards, We can read the Federal Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change. If this is not the case, the carbon federal price system will come into force.

If the price is frozen, it does not meet the criteria established by the federal. According to current rules, this means that the Federal System will apply Alberta than the provincial systemreveal Dale Beinin.

Pour Beautiful victory, Director General of the President of the Renewable Energy Association of the Electricity Sector. They are harmonized political frameworks between the provincial government and the federal government. Without harmonia between provinces and Ottawa, the investment is prudent, he said.

Any item that reduces certain level of certainty is the problem for industry.

Alberta become competitive

The new route alliance, the coalition of the greatest fibers in Canada, said Alberta government efforts.

We are going through the period of economic uncertainty marked by many pressure on the competitiveness of our sector. The current federal system (…) is not competitive compared to the entities we are in the competitionThe new road alliance supports the President, Kendall Dilling.

This is not a review Janetta MckenzieDirector of the PEMBINE Institute of Oil and Gas Program.

He says it must be a petroleum sector detergent. Most of the commercial partners are preparing to enter new prices of energy imports that are not dependent on the United States.

Rebecca Minister Schulz He said on his side: Uncertainty related to American customs rates, combined with ideological policies, asked (Government) to start dialogue with the industry in the future of our (price) program. Current regulations expired in 2026.

The announcement is not surprising, it believes in Vittoria Bellissimo, but the time selected is interesting: We have not yet heard the new federal government (at carbon industry prices). The question is the question is that the strategy is a long strategy or trading tactic between the Alberta government and the federal government.