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Todd Korol/Reuters
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Calgary, Ottawa
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Alberta officials expect to see first oil move through a new pipeline to the West Coast by 2033 or 2034, after the province and Ottawa signed a long-awaited deal on carbon pricing and emissions reductions in the energy sector.
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The agreement was inked on Friday by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith at the McDougall Centre in Calgary. It finalizes the fine print of a memorandum of understanding they signed last year,
which tied Ottawa’s support for a potential pipeline to Alberta increasing the carbon price it imposes on oil producers and reducing greenhouse gas emissions through carbon capture and storage, also called CCS.
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The two governments have agreed to an effective carbon price of $130 per tonne by 2040 by instituting annual benchmarks for the headline carbon price – or policy price – including $115 by 2030 and $130 by 2035.
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Under Friday’s agreement, Alberta will submit an application for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast to Ottawa’s Major Projects Office on or before July 1. The federal government will then look to designate the pipeline as a project of national interest by Oct. 1.
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