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Alberta Warns Guilbeault That Ottawa’s Plastic Ban Will Hinder Local Progress, Innovation

July 5, 2023
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The Alberta government has sent a letter to Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault, objecting to the federal government’s designation of plastics as a toxic substance. Rebecca Schultz, Alberta minister of the environment and protected areas, said in a July 5 letter that Ottawa’s sweeping ban on plastics “will punish innovative solutions, and hinder locally driven…

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Provinces Intervene in Court Challenge of Feds’ Single-Use Plastic Ban

March 23, 2023
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Saskatchewan and Alberta’s governments have intervened in a court challenge of the federal government’s decision to declare single-use plastics as “toxic substances” and ban them by 2025. The challenge was heard in the Federal Court of Canada in Toronto from March 7 to 9, brought by the Responsible Plastic Use Coalition, a group of plastic…

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