Alberta makes it official: Bill passed and proclaimed to kill carbon tax
Posted Jun 4, 2019 3:10 pm.
Last Updated Jun 4, 2019 3:16 pm.
EDMONTON – Alberta’s consumer carbon tax is now officially gone.
Members of the legislature voted last night to pass the bill that repeals the tax, and it was signed into law by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell.
The province stopped charging the tax last week, and the federal government announced it will soon replace the fee with its own carbon levy.
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The provincial carbon tax was implemented by the former NDP government, adding a surcharge to gasoline at the pumps and on fossil-fuelled home heating.
United Conservative Premier Jason Kenney won the April election on a promise to kill it, saying the tax hasn’t helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions and took money out of the pockets of working families.
Kenney’s government will continue with a tax on large industrial greenhouse gas emitters, and has promised to challenge the constitutionality of the federal carbon tax in court if Ottawa imposes it.
