The cost of going green in the oil patch

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A day after the federal green plan got leaked last week, the reaction from Alberta was swift: the Apocalypse was nigh, its fourth horseman none other than Environment Minister John Baird. News the feds would require a 20 per cent reduction of greenhouse gases by 2020 prompted a Calgary front-page headline to scream: “New federal green plan could ‘crush’ oil sands.” Meanwhile, Baird’s Alberta counterpart, Rob Renner, maintained that recently introduced provincial reductions would supercede dearer federal ones — as if to say, “Lookit, we set our own rules. Feds — back off.”