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Feds didn’t push carbon price backstop in Alberta in show of co-operation: Dabrusin
The agreement keeps the pipeline plan alive while lowering Alberta’s industrial carbon price, which the province says will save companies $240 billion by 2050.
- On Friday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney announced an implementation agreement in Calgary, finalizing a November 2025 memorandum of understanding on pipeline development and carbon pricing.
- The deal scales back federal carbon pricing goals, capping Alberta's industrial carbon price at $95 per tonne for 2026 while establishing a pathway for pipeline construction to begin as early as Sept. 1, 2027.
- Marilyn Slett, elected chief of the Heiltsuk Nation and president of the Coastal First Nations, stated "no project, no route" will proceed without Indigenous support. Environmental groups criticized the agreement as "bulldozing" protections.
- Premier David Eby criticized the deal as rewarding separatist threats, while Energy Minister Adrian Dix recently called a potential southern pipeline route a "positive shift," suggesting British Columbia may be open to the proposal.
- Smith must submit a project proposal to the major projects office by July 1, though critics warn the pipeline's financial feasibility remains uncertain without clear public support for subsidy costs.
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Feds didn't push carbon price backstop in Alberta in show of co-operation: Dabrusin
OTTAWA - The government didn't enforce the federal standard on Alberta's industrial carbon price as a gesture of co-operation with the province, Federal Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin said Tuesday.
·Winnipeg, Canada
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Eby says Carney must show same enthusiasm for B.C. projects as he does for Alberta
B.C. Premier David Eby says he’s looking for an equal level of enthusiasm from Prime Minister Mark Carney as he had for Alberta’s pipeline pitch and a lower carbon price.
·Kelowna, Canada
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