"Alberta Launches $3 Billion Climate Change Strategy With Carbon Tax"

"Albertans will pay $3 billion more annually in a new economywide tax on carbon, and will likely have to shell out more for electricity as a result of an accelerated retirement of coal-fired power plants under the NDP government’s new climate-change strategy released Sunday.

Premier Rachel Notley said she thinks Alberta families will willingly pay the tax and higher price for power, but some of the tax revenue will be returned to people and businesses that need help.

'Low- and middle-income families will get support to help them make ends meet,' she said following the announcement of the long-awaited strategy at the Telus World of Science in Edmonton."

Darcy Henton and Chris Varcoe report for the Calgary Herald November 22, 2015.

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"Justin Trudeau, Premiers Seek To Unify Canada's Message on Climate Change" (CBC News)