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Originally Posted by indes
Have any of the federal parties said anything about the Pathways CCUS? Last I can find Pathways was trying to make a deal with the federal government to fix carbon pricing but that was a year ago.
It's weird with everything going on we're not hearing anything about a potential $16bn project in Alberta
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The drivers behind pathways are shifting to a "take down the industrial carbon tax too!" platform. Led by our illustrious club owner N. Murray Go####yerself, they signed a letter. IMO it basically confirms the undermessaging that has been dogging Pathways for years; it was always a white elephant project that the sand miners were using to soak up government funds and make vague future promises while not actually advancing it in meaningful ways, or having meaningful negotiations about it.
I hope they are forced into it personally. If not, perhaps we can start a specific tax for that region and then build and operate it for them.
Alberta's already got one of (if not the) largest operational carbon sequestration pipelines in the world with the ACTL, and it is only like 20% filled. It's an incredible resource and enables investments like Dow's Path2Zero project ($11 billion in AB under construction right now) but ultimately we don't need too many more of these to be built asap while we have existing capacity. This one can't service the oil sands reasonably, so Pathways would be something separate, but Alberta is still making good strides in CCUS. Just not from those liars.