Renewable energy sector adds concerns about wind-tower costs to steel industry crisis talks: ‘there’s a ton of urgency’

The tightened tariff rate quotas for steel imports from non-free trade agreement partners will come into force on Dec. 26.
To help protect Canada’s steel industry, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced new measures in November, including for imposition of a global 25 per cent tariff on targeted imported steel-derivative products such as wind towers.

Ottawa's plans to limit imports of foreign steel may also drive up the cost of electricity as wind towers become more costly, warn representatives of the renewable energy sector who are hurrying to voice their message to Ottawa before the measures come into force later this ...

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