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Alberta’s NDP government is set to reveal more details of its carbon tax plan, including who will be exempt from parts of the economy-wide charge when it is introduced next year — including oilsands operations, First Nations and agricultural producers.

Government sources said Wednesday that large greenhouse gas emitters now subject to the existing Specified Gas Emitters Regulation (SGER) levy will be exempt from parts of the new carbon tax being brought in as part of the province’s climate-change strategy.

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The group of 109 large emitters that pay SGER includes oilsands operations, refineries and upgraders, fertilizer plants and cement producers.

“Those people who are going to be paying on their emissions won’t be paying on their heating fuel because that would be sort of double taxation of the same facility,” said a senior government official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

There will also be exemptions for federal entities and First Nations individuals and bands.

Farmers also won’t have to pay the carbon tax on fuel used for agricultural purposes, including marked gasoline. Alberta now gives eligible agricultural operators a nine-cent-a-litre provincial fuel tax exemption on buying dyed gasoline and diesel.