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The Alberta government is considering enshrining in law its target of generating 30 per cent of the province’s electricity from renewable sources by 2030, said Shannon Phillips, the minister responsible for the climate change office.

Her comments were in response to an open letter released on Monday and signed by a dozen renewable energy companies, industry associations and think tanks that urged Alberta to adopt a legislated clean energy target.

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“We are considering it,” Phillips said in an interview. “We are going to be back in the House very soon and if we need to pass legislation then that will be our opportunity for doing so.”

Alberta is Canada’s biggest oil producing province and also its largest emitter of greenhouse gases.