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May says voting for budget was ‘mistake’ and it won’t happen again
Elizabeth May calls her budget vote a mistake after the government extended tax credits to enhanced oil recovery, prompting a minister's resignation and environmentalist criticism.
- Elizabeth May, Green Party leader, said her support on the budget was a `mistake` after the reversal of EOR credits, calling it a `significant betrayal`.
- Last month, Steven Guilbeault was dispatched to secure May's support after assurances EOR tax credits would not be added, and May says she voted confidence after getting Carney's Paris target affirmation.
- Enhanced oil recovery captures carbon and injects it underground, increasing pressure while trapping CO2; Tim Hodgson said EOR credits were `important to Alberta` and predicted strong demand for Canadian steel.
- The tax-credit reversal prompted cabinet fallout, including Steven Guilbeault's departure, but the parliamentary budget vote passed as the NDP and Conservatives each had two abstentions, averting a winter election.
- The memorandum with Alberta, signed days after May voted, commits Canada to extending federal tax credits for large CCUS projects including the Pathways Alliance project, which May says she had heard rumours about a reversal.
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May says voting for budget was 'mistake' and it won't happen again
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·Winnipeg, Canada
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OTTAWA—Green Party leader Elizabeth May stated that supporting the Carney government in the budget vote was "a mistake" that she would not do again. Ms. May told La Presse Canada that the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on energy—in particular, the portion that applies federal tax credits to assisted oil recovery—was a "significant trace and turnaround" that led him to question …
·Richelieu, Canada
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