CCS is not designed to save the planet. It’s designed to save the fossil fuel industry.

Learn more in my latest video about the Carney Smith MOU
youtu.be/smDEzOiai10

Except don’t forget you’re giving it billions in subsidies. They’re getting you to pay them to build an industrial strength greenwashing machine all so they can look like they’re doing something good for the planet while getting an excuse to expand the fossil fuel industry.

To fill a new pipeline, you need to boost output by 1M barrels/day, so total emissions will rise—no matter how much CCS trims the “intensity.” The only thing that matters is the total, and it will go up 📈. But hey, at least we get more money, right?

Even if Pathways works perfectly (it won’t), its max capacity is 12M tonnes a year. Oil sands production creates 88M tonnes. So like 13% in Best Case Scenario reductions. That’s not a climate plan; it’s a rounding error.

Pathways is pegged at ~$16B, which will come from the private sector. But thanks to the MOU and the new federal budget, there are subsidies to build it, subsidies to run it, and subsidies to extract more oil, all tied to building a new pipeline!

Where does the CO2 go? Almost all of it goes to “enhanced oil recovery”pumping more oil out of wells that would’ve stayed put. CCS was literally invented to squeeze out extra barrels. This MOU allows for CCS to be used for enhanced oil recovery. In other words, it makes the climate worse.

Example 2: Quest CCS in Alberta released 2.7M more tonnes of CO2 than it captured over several years—and cost taxpayers over $700M. Pathways will be far bigger and far pricier.

Example 1: Boundary Dam, Sask. Touted as “clean coal,” it ran about 50% below target and burned through more than $200M in public subsidies.

When will it get built? Maybe it will break ground in 2029. Meanwhile other climate policies - like the clean electricity standard - get nuked so we can go all in on a higher pollution price meant to incentivize this CCS project.

Quick refresher: CCS only reduces emissions from producing oil and gas. It doesn’t touch tailpipes. This MOU hinges on building the world’s largest CCS project: Pathways Plus.

CCS is old tech Canada has hyped for decades. We were talking about it during Harper! But the history of CCS is littered with blown budgets, failed targets, and public money sucked away from solutions that actually cut emissions.

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Is that what they call it? Haha

I’m not super knowledgeable on immigration so I’d need to do some research but yeah there has been a hard turn against immigration and immigrants over the last few years and boy does it freak me out.

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