Alberta's new Carbon Tax is already hitting the Agricultural community hard.

According to local rancher John Lee, the impact is already being felt.

"It's an immediate cost. It's not even down the road, a year or two years from now, it's an immediate cost increase."

Lee, who's also a Director with the Airdrie and District Agricultural Society, feels this levy is a tax on what farmers need, not what they want.

"It's not going to help to decrease that emission, because strictly in the Province of Alberta, they are taxing the need. I need to heat my house, I need to heat my water so there's clean fresh water for my cattle."

Lee and other farmers are also disappointed that Governments have never recognized the efforts they've made to help with climate change in the past.

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