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Originally Posted by Calgary14
And not only that, the total of $2.6B collected from carbon taxes has resulted in about a 1% reduction in emissions in Alberta (3 million tonne reduction quoted by Notley in the article, and in 2016 total Alberta emissions were 262.9 million tonnes)
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Further to that point, the main reasons emissions have dropped is the coal phase-out and the increased efficiency of oil-sands processing.
The carbon tax itself has done almost nothing to reduce emissions. That's why the NDP (and federal Libs) would/will have to massively increase the tax to actually have any effect on outputs.
And even further to that, these changes will have exactly zero effect on the environment at all.