Provincial Election 2019

NDP

• $30 per tonne CO2e carbon tax on transportation and heating fuel
• 100% of the revenues recycled back into the Alberta economy:
  • Carbon levy rebates to middle, and lower income Albertans
  • Transit projects
  • Flood prevention infrastructure
  • Upgrades at schools, universities, hospitals, and colleges for projects that cut operating costs and emissions
  • Energy Efficiency Alberta programs
• Maintain the Carbon Competitiveness Incentive Regulation (CCIR)

UCP

• Repeal Carbon tax
• Replace CCIR, with “Specified Gas Emitter Regulation (SGER)‐like” program

Alberta Party

• Exemptions from carbon tax for:
  • Business
  • Farms
  • Households
  • non-profits

• Revenue- neutral carbon tax**

NDP

• Energy Innovation Fund
• $1.4 billion over 7 years for innovation projects
• Use CCIR to provide Emissions Reduction Alberta with $80 million in core funding and a further $92.5 million for additional initiatives

UCPN

• First $100 million of TIER revenues to technologies to reduce GHG emissions

Alberta Party

• Increase Alberta Innovates budget by 30 per cent to $375 million by 2021*****

NDP

• Generate 30% of electricity from renewable sources by 2030
• End pollution from coal-generated electricity by 2030

UCP

• End all subsidies for renewable power generation
• return to energy-only market
• stop coal phase-out and require high emission standards

Alberta Party

• Support for “green electricity”**
• Enable Alberta’s Micro Power Producers through a review of existing micro- generation legislation with the goal of simplifying the application and permitting process
• Create a fiscal environment to promote a Smart Grid, and conduct full and detailed stakeholder engagements to ensure Smart Grid policy.**

NDP

• Energy Efficiency Alberta Program ($124M from carbon tax): financial incentives, financing, and rebates for individuals (~$540 annually for a family of 4)  and businesses to improve their energy efficiency and become energy generators

UCP

• Full audit of Energy Efficiency Alberta Program (and end the carbon tax-funded programs)
• Possible appeal of Energy Efficiency Alberta
• More free emissions credits biggest polluters

Alberta Party

Currently no Policies

NDP

• Supports market access through pipelines
• Reduce methane emissions by 45% from 2014 levels by 2025 and achieve the same equivalent reductions as the federal government’s methane regulations.
• Develop regulations for the 100MT Oil Sands Emissions Limit (OSEL)
• Maintain the $440 million Oil Sands Innovation Fund
• amendments to Bill C-69

UCP

• Supports market access through pipelines
• Cancel railcar lease with CN and CP, explore new methods of moving oil to ocean ports
• Stop Bill C-69 that creates the new Impact Assessment Agency of Canada*****
• End 100 MT Oil Sands Emissions Limit

Alberta Party

• Supports market access through pipelines
• Encourage the transition to an increasingly decarbonized energy system, shift from centralized fossil fuel based sources to localized renewable energy sources**

NDP

• Funds from carbon tax going to community transit initiatives such as funding for ROAM and community walkability such as Banff Bow River bridge ****
• Alberta Community Transit Fund provides $215 million in funding over 5 years for transit projects, $115 million of which is from Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan.
• Provincial Public Transportation Strategy to support the Climate Leadership Plan under development

UCP

Currently no Policies

Alberta Party

• Support for transit through infrastructure funding**

NDP

• Create Kitaskino Nuwenene Wildland, a preserve of 160,000 hectares south of Wood Buffalo National Park (buffer zone between oilsands projects and Wood Buffalo NP; preserve traditional Indigenous land uses)

UCP

• Increase funding for the Alberta Land Trust Grant Program for conservation projects by 50 per cent
• Create pre-approved land corridors moving east-west and north in the Arctic to expedite resource project approvals*****

Alberta Party

• Renew the Water for Life Strategy with a focus on the impacts of Climate Change on Alberta’s water supply
• Assess the risks posed by climate change on areas that are at risk of drought or flooding