Emitters: A-Tonne Tax

emitters: The tax will be applied on 10 per cent of emissions produced by the province's biggest polluters starting in 2020, according to CTV. A new Parliament has begun Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Friday his department agrees that plan will meet federal requirements that each province have a price on pollution from big industrial emitters. In late October, Alberta unveiled a system to impose a 30-a-tonne tax on greenhouse-gas emissions from big industry, including the oilsands. Provinces that don't will have a federal version imposed on them. We are very pleased that Alberta has now agreed to commit to putting in place a price on pollution at least with respect to heavy emitters, said Wilkinson. The government amended regulations to exempt Alberta from the federal system for industry on Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.