Plastics ban hits Alberta’s gas strategy
Federal measures to limit plastics pollution could frustrate the province’s petchems plans
Ottawa has rained on Alberta’s parade again. The federal government announced a series of measures in early October intended to counter plastics pollution, including a national ban on six single-use plastic items. The news came only a day after Alberta released its much-anticipated Natural Gas Vision and Strategy, two of the five pillars of which are a massive expansion of petrochemical manufacturing in the province and the establishment of Alberta as the “centre of excellence for plastics recycling” in western North America by 2030. Alberta’s vision and strategy Alberta’s gas industry has fallen on hard times since the US shale gas revolution took off in the mid-2000s. Gas production in the
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