The federal government says Canada’s promised oil and gas emissions cap framework could drop any day.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault — now in Dubai for the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP28 — said Friday he would be “shocked if this framework wasn’t presented at the end of this conference.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed the Liberal government’s plan to impose a lid on emissions from the oil and gas sector at a previous COP summit in 2021.
On Friday, Guilbeault said recent legal setbacks were among the reasons the government is taking more time to develop the framework.
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