“Scrap the cap.” That’s the new battle cry out of Alberta, following Monday’s announcement by federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault of regulations that would force upstream oil and gas operations to cut carbon emissions to 35 per cent below 2019 levels, sometime between 2030 and 2032.

According to Guilbeault, said operations contributed 31 per cent of Canada’s total emissions in 2022, and he wants the industry to do its “fair share” to reduce them.