Alberta can launch an ambitious program to begin reducing carbon emissions by 2012 or be abandoned by a world economy that will no longer want the oil it produces, Liberal Leader Kevin Taft said Tuesday.

In his alternative version of the "speech from the throne" two weeks before the Stelmach government's actual one, Taft pitched a plan to capture carbon dioxide from the oilsands within five years and replace Alberta's natural-gas rebates with home retrofit incentives.

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