Massive carbon-capture project remains iffy
EDT Last updated on Friday, Oct. 09, 2009 2:15AM EDT D espite a pledge of $865-million in public funds, Shell Canada says it's not certain that a planned $1.35-billion carbon capture and storage project near Edmonton will ever go ahead.
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- News Source: The Globe and Mail | about 1 month agoEDT Last updated on Friday, Oct. 09, 2009 2:15AM EDT D espite a pledge of $865-million in public funds, Shell Canada says it's not certain that a planned $1.35-billion carbon capture and storage project near Edmonton will ever go ahead.
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- Blog Source: thegovmonitor.comThis project will integrate CCS technology at Shell Canada's Scotford oil sands upgrader, near Edmonton. The application of carbon capture and storage technology could capture up to 1.1 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually, ...
- Blog Source: www.greencarcongress.comThe provincial government of Alberta and the federal government of Canada will invest C$865 million (US$822 million) in a large-scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the Athabasca oil sands. The province signed a Letter of ...
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- Blog Source: royaldutchshellplc.comOct. 8 (Bloomberg) — Higher costs and low oil prices are limiting further development of oil sands projects in Canada, the chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc said. ... He also said The Hague-based company is working with the
- Blog Source: www.smalldeadanimals.com(CVX) and Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) a total of C$865 million (US$817.6 million) in funding Thursday to help create the first commercial carbon-capture demonstration project in Canada's oil sands industry. ...
- Blog Source: greeninc.blogs.nytimes.comBut the paper's author, Graham Thomson, a journalist at The Edmonton Journal, argues that there's a unproven leap between enhanced oil recovery projects and long-term, large-scale carbon capture and storage. ... United States Environmental Protection
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