Last month, Energy Efficiency Alberta announced that the
programs, funded by carbon tax revenues that were cancelled by Jason
Kenney’s United Conservative Party government, were no longer accepting
new applications, the Calgary Herald reports.
programs, funded by carbon tax revenues that were cancelled by Jason
Kenney’s United Conservative Party government, were no longer accepting
new applications, the Calgary Herald reports.
“Albertans made it clear over the course of the election that they have
no interest in taxpayer-subsidized home renovations schemes,” said Jess
Sinclair, spokesperson for Environment Minister Jason Nixon. But in
Medicine Hat, where falling as prices have forced
operators to shut down 2,000 wells and the jobs that go with them, the
owner of Energy Plus Insulation, Obi Sadden, said the efficiency
programs created work at the same time that they helped the environment.
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Jess
Sinclair, spokesperson for Environment Minister Jason Nixonlies. There were hundreds of thousands participating in the various programs.