New industrial carbon price set, pipeline to follow? – Resource Works

May 18, 2026

BC will be under pressure to lower carbon pricing to match Alberta

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Danielle Smith were all smiles last week when they signed a new agreement setting the price for industrial carbon taxes in Alberta.

Pipeline and $20 billion carbon capture project to follow. At least that’s the plan.

But the folks who would actually pay for all this – Alberta oilsands producers – weren’t smiling.

“The announced industrial carbon tax, while lower than the current industrial carbon tax, still maintains uncompetitive costs on the Canadian oil sands industry,” the Oilsands Alliance said in response to the new tax rates.

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