As key clean electricity policies get rolled back, emissions from cheap and dirty gas power are becoming unstoppable. Here’s a chart-filled deep dive into Canada’s surging gas power emissions and the pivotal role played by emissions pricing in levelling the playing field for clean renewables.
To be fair Trudeau also put caps on extraction.
Carbon Taxes will never work without a parallel system to reward cutting carbon though. You can’t just tax the externality without adding incentives on the other side of the equation. Unfortunately most people hate the idea of a Carbon Coin.