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CALGARY – Alberta will be coal-power emissions-free by 2030 and will impose a $30 per tonne carbon tax on all emissions – including emissions from cars and furnaces – by 2018.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley unveiled her government’s climate change policies on Sunday before heading to a First Ministers meeting in Ottawa, announcing a broad-based $20-per-tonne price for carbon beginning next year, and $30 per tonne next year beginning in 2018.

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Previously, Alberta only charged large emitters, companies that produce more than 100,000 tonnes of carbon per year, a carbon levy. Now, anyone who pollutes will pay.

That includes anyone who drives a car or a truck, as the carbon levy translates to an additional seven cents per litre of gasoline in 2018. The levy will also boost the cost of natural gas at that time by $1.68 per Gigajoule, making it more expensive to run a natural gas-fired furnace.

“We are going to do our part to address one of the world’s greatest problems,” Notley said in a statement of climate change.