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An interesting Twitter thread in recent days has debated the importance of carbon policies, clean technology and the science behind climate change.

Among the participants are federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney.

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For that reason, Wednesday’s release of the Ecofiscal Commission’s report on the effectiveness of carbon pricing to fight climate was a very timely addition to the debate.

Kenney has voiced his party’s intent to scrap Alberta’s carbon tax and replace it with a system of sector-by-sector regulation while McKenna is moving ahead with a national carbon price in the absence of provincial programs.

Ottawa intends to implement a $20 per tonne carbon price in January 2019, rising to $50/tonne by 2022.

It remains to be seen if Kenney’s ideas would satisfy Ottawa, however, and the reality could be Alberta will have a carbon tax — whether that’s the provincially designed system that now exists or a federally imposed one.