Canada has been talking fast but moving slowly to promote a technology that could help it get out of the environmental doghouse.
Carbon capture, or sequestration, increasingly is touted as a potential solution for big, fat greenhouse gas emissions.
The process could prove important for Canada, a robust energy producer with an economy dependent on spewing emissions by the megatonne.
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Font:****And carbon capture may soon become a public relations necessity for the oilsands project. Some 70 per cent of the crude produced Reproductor dvd in northern Alberta is exported to the U.S., a profitable flow that could be disrupted by growing environmental sensibilities south of the border.
Under carbon capture and storage, C02 emissions are snared at source, then transported by pipeline to underground storage sites — such as depleted reproductor vhs oil and gas wells — instead of being pumped into the atmosphere. (more…)
