Environment Canada Proposes Reduced Electricity Sector Emissions

On August 19th Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent announced that the Government of Canada are taking steps to reduce emissions from the countries coal-fired electricity sector. They "recognize the potential for significant emissions reductions", and created new regulations applying to coal fired electricity generation units. They will be phasing out traditional coal-fired electricity generation to make way for new units. These new regulations are expected to cause a decline in the greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation, contributing to the countries goals of reducing emissions 17% by 2020.

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