Nova Scotia will publish a plan for dealing with climate change and have a new deal on carbon pricing the end of this year, but Environment Department officials offered few other details to MLAs on Wednesday.
The change in the proposed Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act introduced Wednesday moves up the phasing out of coal by about 10 years.
Nova Scotia is moving to legislate a series of environment and climate change targets that include a new goal of phasing out coal-fired electricity generation by 2030.
The associate deputy minister said the delay is partially related to ensuring members of the public have fair and equitable access to participate. Some people have had mostly normal lives in the last year during the pandemic, but that’s not the case for everyone.