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Jul 6, 2026
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The $75 barrel: Carbon pricing makes Canada’s next pipeline uneconomic before it’s built
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The $75 barrel: Carbon pricing makes Canada’s next pipeline uneconomic before it’s built
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6 JULY 2026
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New research shows Ottawa's industrial carbon tax pushes oilsands costs above market prices
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A barrel of oilsands crude costs $51 USD to produce before taxes. Corporate taxes and royalties lift that to $58. Add Canada’s $95-per-tonne industrial carbon price, and the figure hits $75 USD—against a Western Canadian Select price near $70 CAD. That is the arithmetic at the heart of a new Fraser Institute study by Jack Mintz, covered in The Hub by…
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