Alta. premier pledges to use impact assessment rebuke to fight federal climate goals
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith believes the Supreme Court’s recent rebuke of the Impact Assessment Act allows the province to bow out of federal climate change regulations.
While speaking to BNN Bloomberg Tuesday, Smith said the decision last week to overturn most of the law shows the federal government does not have control over Alberta industry and could thus ignore Canada’s planned emissions cap and its clean electricity regulations.
“We won’t follow it,” she said during the television interview. “I think the Supreme Court has made it pretty clear that we have the jurisdiction to be able to regulate our resources in our own way.”
Smith called federal emissions guidelines “unrealistic” and “unachievable,” and essentially amount to a cap on how much Alberta can produce.