Alberta Says Emissions Have Declined for Nearly 10 Years Due to Innovation, Not Regulations

Alberta’s environment minister says the province’s dropping emission rates for the past nine years have been due to innovation, not rules. She cited a new national report showing Alberta was one of four provinces that had reduced emissions in the last year. “Our per-barrel emissions are in decline, electricity emissions are in decline, methane emissions are in decline, all while production and demand continues to rise,” Minister Rebecca Schulz said in a May 3 post on X, formerly Twitter. “We did it by investing in innovation and technology, not punitive rules and regulations.” She said the province could be doing more if it had support from the federal government....