Kenney now wants $30-billion more from Canadian taxpayers !

Hey, Kenney, you don't need 'carbon capture' if you don't put that shit into the atmosphere in the first place.

Canadians are damned fed up with your antics and those of your oil industry. When they're not getting our tax dollars through 'subsidies' from Trudeau, and you're not brow-beating him for bailouts, we are paying for your floods and wildfires and cleanups of 'orphaned wells'.

Get a life outside of politics, please. We can't afford you and your province anymore. Take the recent advice you received . . . "Fire yourself!"
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theglobeandmail.com - March 7, 2021


Alberta seeks billions in federal funding for carbon capture projects

Alberta is asking Ottawa to commit to $30-billion in spending or tax incentives over the next decade to spur the building of large-scale industrial carbon capture projects.

The provincial government says for Canada to meet climate goals, the country will have to help fund a series of carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, facilities that force CO2 emissions deep into the ground, and keep them out of the atmosphere. This is especially true in emissions-heavy Alberta.

“There isn’t a pathway to net-zero without carbon capture – globally or in Canada, or anywhere,” Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage said in an interview.

“And if we’re going to hope to get to net-zero by 2050 we’re going to have to start working on it now,” she said.

The $30-billion request is outlined in a “discussion document” obtained by The Globe and Mail in advance of the federal budget expected to be unveiled in April. Alberta is hoping that a recent, renewed global focus on this type of carbon capture technology will bolster its case. The few CCUS projects that exist in Canada today have only been built with major outlays from the provincial and federal governments.

The document says the province’s industrial emissions – including oil and gas production, and power generation – accounts for more than one-quarter of Canada’s total emissions. It also sheds new light on Alberta’s plans in how it will reduce that pollution: It states Alberta industries could deliver a 60-megatonne greenhouse gas emission reduction over the next decade. Half of that would be spurred from current government incentives, regulations and supports, and half of which would come from CCUS.

The document argues the Albertan industrial sector’s contribution to the national economy warrants the long-term investment from the federal
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government, and the country could become a global leader in the technology. CCUS, the report said, would protect high-value, difficult-to-replace industrial jobs while also “greening” them and “preserving valuable exports.”

Oil, mostly from Alberta, is Canada’s biggest export.

~[actually, Alberta produces about 79% of Canada's export oil - which also makes Albertans the highest-income earners in Canada even in the current economy].~

In recent months, Premier Jason Kenney’s government has gradually evolved its pro-pipeline and oil messaging to include greater concern for environmental, social and governance measures. The change has happened as some global funds have spurned oil sands investments, in part owing to concern about the sector’s high GHG emissions.

The Biden administration’s strong push on climate change and the President’s decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline also weigh on the outlook for the Canadian energy sector, headquartered in Alberta.

According to the Alberta document, the financial options to spur carbon capture projects could include direct grants, loans, tax incentives that reward investment and even direct government ownership – in the same vein as the Trans Mountain pipeline.

[reminder: "government ownership" = taxpayers of Canada ownership]

Alberta’s United Conservative Party government has often clashed with the federal Liberals over climate and energy policy – Alberta has taken its opposition to Ottawa’s consumer carbon tax policy to the Supreme Court, for example. But the province contends industrial emission reduction is an area where there’s room for common ground, and CCUS has to be a part of a suite of measures for the country to reduce its GHGs.

An announcement on a federal-provincial working group focused on CCUS technology is also expected this week.

The document also said Alberta is committed to significant emission reductions “in line” with the country’s climate obligations, including Canada’s Paris Agreement pledge to cut its emissions by 30 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, or the plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. “With a higher proportion of industrial, export-linked emissions than other provinces, Alberta will need to leverage and improve clean-tech innovations at large-scale and accelerated pace.”
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