Alberta promises to phase out coal by 2030

He urged “bold” leadership from Trudeau on this file, noting that Alberta “just leapfrogged” the federal government on climate ambition.

Notley will bring her plan into a meeting on Monday of Canadian premiers with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to prepare Canada’s national strategy at the upcoming Paris climate change summit.

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark says Canada has unfairly had a black eye on environmental issues for a long time, with the focus on the oilsands obscuring measures provinces have been taking to combat climate change.

“This is about a global conversation about Alberta’s energy products”, said Phillips, in an interview with CBC News.

Jean says the only good news is the panel didn’t follow the lead of the federal NDP, which he says demanded the oil sands be shut down completely.

Among other things, the plan aims to cap oilsands emissions at 100 megatonnes annually – about 30 megatonnes more than the industry now emits.

Saskatchewan utility SaskPower yesterday set a target to double the percentage of renewable electricity generation capacity by 2030 to 50%.

An economy-wide carbon tax of CAD $20/ton will be introduced in January 2017 and rise to $30/ton in 2018.

This means hotter summers with more forest fires, melting permafrost and a smaller Arctic ice cover that will force polar bears onto land as they search for food, they said. They are proud to have worked with leading environmental organizations to better understand each other’s views and recommend solutions for the oil and natural gas industry that helped inform the policy.

The Alberta tar sands industry, for years the source of extreme environmental damage and fierce critical outrage for its contribution to global warming, on Sunday was served an enormous blow when Premier Rachel Notley announced a historic new climate change strategy. “We are turning the page on the mistaken policies of the past, policies that have failed to provide the leadership our province needed”.

Anthony Swift similarly told InsideClimate News “the devil is in the details” and raised concern about how the oil sands carbon tax will work.

Energy efficiency and energy-resilient communities: A new community-scale energy and efficiency program; boosted building codes and standards; municipal partnerships to encourage public transportation and transit-oriented development.

“Our goal is to become one of the world’s most progressive and forward-looking energy producers”, Notley said at a conference in capital Edmonton on Sunday, the Washington Post reported. “It’s a game changer and will change the debate about the oil sands industry doing its part to address climate change”, said Ed Whittingham, executive director of the Pembina Institute, an environmental think tank.

They are pledging to make a change to alternative sources of energy, where two-thirds of the province’s power would eventually be provided by renewable energy sources such as wind power and natural gas. Notely announced new pledges to limit fossil fuels in the province, by phasing out all coal power usage by 2030, imposing a carbon tax beginning in 2017, and placing a limit on carbon pollution from the tar sands industry.