The price of gas in Red Deer fell 7 cents between 9 a.m. (left) and 4 p.m. on Thursday (rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)

By Troy Gillard

Bill 1 passed in Legislature

Gas prices drop as province scraps carbon tax

May 30, 2019 | 4:32 PM

Gas prices in Red Deer fell as much as seven cents on Thursday as the United Conservatives cancelled the provincial tax on gasoline and home heating fuels put in place by the NDP.

An Alberta carbon tax on large industrial emitters of greenhouse gas emissions remains in effect.

Premier Jason Kenney says the tax didn’t stop the global rise of carbon emissions and his government is delivering the biggest tax break in the province’s history by getting rid of it.

The federal government says it will move quickly to impose a carbon tax on Alberta now that the province’s carbon pricing system has been scrapped.

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Kenney says if that happens Alberta will join other provinces fighting it in court.

(With file from The Canadian Press)