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Saskatchewan Encourages Ottawa to Consider Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Successes

 
Saskatchewan's Attorney General is calling on Ottawa to consider the action being taken in his province and other jurisdictions as it considers its policies on greenhouse gas mitigation.
 
In April Saskatchewan launched a constitutional reference case in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to challenge the Federal Government’s authority to impose a carbon tax on the province and public support and support from other jurisdictions within Canada have been building.
 
Don Morgan, Saskatchewan's Attorney General and Minister of Justice, says his province's goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without a carbon tax.
 
Don Morgan-Attorney General Saskatchewan:
 
Given the issues that we have with international trade, our position that we have to be very much competitive with other jurisdictions around the world, we're hoping that the federal government will say maybe we should revisit this and look at the other things that our province and other jurisdictions are doing to try and minimize emissions.
 
We've introduced a Prairie Resilience Plan which focuses on resilience and on reducing emissions.
 
Our goal is to economically have sustainable and promoting growth with no carbon tax.
By 2030 we want to have a 40 percent reduction in emissions from electrical generation and a 40 percent reduction from methane.
Source : Farmscape

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