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On a single Sunday afternoon, Premier Rachel Notley changed everything in Alberta.

Her climate action plan may be the most radical policy shift ever seen in this province. It seeks to re-engineer an entire economy into something different, by gradually shrinking the main energy drivers and raising up whole new industries to take their place

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We will have a $3-billion-a-year carbon tax, much like B.C. and Quebec.

Everyone will pay at the pump and through their electricity bills. Lower-income people will be reimbursed by some undecided means, with money from the tax itself. Plenty more will go to industry incentives (or funerals, as in the case of coal.)

The other provinces haven’t been overly burdened by such carbon taxes, but there’s much more to Notley’s plan. She also pledges quicker phase-0ut of all coal-fired electricity, and an eventual cap on oilsands emissions at 100 megatonnes per year.