Alberta’s environment minister says her government is willing to talk to Ottawa about a federal price on carbon of up to $50 a tonne if the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is approved. “Kinder Morgan will ensure that we realize many of the economic benefits of economic access,” Shannon Phillips told Global News in an interview. “Of course more is better, but that is the one we have in the regulatory queue right now and that is the one project that we are looking to the federal government to resolve.” The National Energy Board approved the pipeline expansion back in May, attaching 157 conditions. A final decision now rests with the federal government, and specifically cabinet. The deadline for that decision is Dec. 19.
Staff – News Talk 770 – October 21, 2016.
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