Morning Update: Alberta deploys sovereignty act, floats its own power corporation to defy federal clean-energy plan

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Good morning, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith deployed her signature sovereignty legislation for the first time yesterday, hinting at the possibility of creating a government-owned corporation to defy Ottawa’s proposed environmental regulations for the country’s electricity grid. The federal government’s draft Clean Electricity Regulations calls for an electricity grid that produces net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2035, but Smith and her governing United Conservative Party say the proposal would infringe on Alberta’s constitutional right to manage its electricity industry, and that the 2035 goal is unrealistic in the province, which relies heavily on natural gas, a producer of greenhouse emissions, to generate...