CBC: Alberta’s government says it will oppose any federal efforts to bring in a carbon tax after an advisory panel commissioned by Ottawa released its report Monday. The panel was struck to study ways Canada can make a 60 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Large companies in Alberta that fail to cut their emissions intensity by March 31 will pay $15 a tonne on excess carbon output, which goes into a technology fund. (CBC) The National Round Table on Environment and …