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New Natural-Gas Power Plants To Pay Carbon Tax On All Emissions By 2030

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 28 Jun, 2019 11:48 PM

    OTTAWA — The federal government is increasing the carbon tax on new natural-gas plants to discourage power companies from building them.


    The change is part of final regulations for the government's carbon-tax system for big industrial greenhouse-gas emitters, which are being released this week.


    The system affects businesses that produce more than 50,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases a year.


    It is designed to limit impacts on competitiveness for major industrial emitters, who will pay the carbon tax on a portion of what they emit rather than on all the fuels that they use.


    The emission standard set for natural-gas power plants originally meant that new ones would likely never pay any carbon tax, which was a disincentive for power companies to turn to renewable-energy sources instead of gas.


    The change made this week means new natural-gas plants will have their emissions standard toughened each year after 2021, until in 2030 they will pay the carbon price on every ounce of their emissions.

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