Home

Share

From this page you can share Little Gain From Oil Sands Carbon Capture: Report to a social bookmarking site or email a link to the page.
Social WebE-mail
Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Little Gain From Oil Sands Carbon Capture: Report
(Your Name) has forwarded an article to you from CommonDreams.org: Little Gain From Oil Sands Carbon Capture: Report

(Your Name) forwarded this article to you from CommonDreams.org.

Sign up here if you would like to receive daily news from CommonDreams.org.

Little Gain From Oil Sands Carbon Capture: Report

n This June 25, 2008 file photo, shows an aerial view just north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, where the world's largest oil companies are building massive open pit mines to get at the oil sands. Canada's oil sands industry is delaying expansion plans as crude prices decline and financial uncertainty slows the once booming sector. (AP Photo/Eamon MacMahon, File)

CALGARY, Alberta - Canada's government saw only limited opportunities to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the oil sands using carbon capture and storage technology, according to briefing notes obtained by a Canadian media.

The notes, prepared by a carbon capture task force, were used by Canadian federal and provincial politicians and were obtained by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, which said it requested them under freedom of information legislation.

Posted in oil sands