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Posted on 12/03/08

National carbon market faces opposition

GLOBAL ENERGY REPORTER; With files from reporter Richard Blackwell

OTTAWA -- As the federal government moves forward with plans to create a trading system for greenhouse gas emissions, significant hurdles remain to building a national market. One of the principal barriers: the government of Alberta, which insists that companies can only purchase offsets - which are used to meet their emissions targets - from suppliers based in the province.

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