This is the second instalment of a two-part series on carbon capture and storage. Read Part 1, Alberta’s Carbon Capture and Storage Plan Stagnate as Carbon Price Lags.
As Alberta falls behind on its goal to capture 30 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year by 2020, hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies are being pumped into the carbon capture and storage (CCS) sector.
Enhance Energy’s Alberta Carbon Trunk Line project is receiving $495 million from Alberta and $63.3 million from Ottawa. Enhance says on its website the project would have been much smaller without the government (Read more…)