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Canada Faces CCS Policy Push
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9
Latest Article
03/25
Active Days
148
Executive Summary
Canada backs major carbon capture plans for oil sands as officials weigh higher prices and pipeline support to secure lower-carbon exports
- Pathways Alliance plans a C$16.5 billion CCS project for Alberta oil sands
- The project would capture emissions from six major oil sands producers
- Ottawa and Alberta tied CCS support to a pipeline and higher industrial carbon pricing
- Officials said the plan is meant to reduce stranded asset risk and boost market access
- Critics say CCS remains costly, subsidy dependent, and technically uncertain at scale
- Advocates argue fossil fuel use can only continue if carbon is permanently returned underground
Quick Facts
- What: Support for carbon capture and storage in oil sands
- Where: Alberta oil sands and northern storage sites
- Why: To cut emissions intensity and protect export access
- Who: Canada Alberta and Pathways Alliance oil producers
- When: Late 2025 through 2026 planning period
Coverage Timeline: 148 Days
Featured Article
Canada announced July 2025 funding for CCUS projects, including Bow Valley Carbon in Alberta, as Alberta expands incentives and regulation amid debates over cost and environmental risks.
Additional Articles
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Climate scientists Myles Allen and Andrew Weaver propose in a Canada-focused analysis that governments mandate and internalize full carbon disposal costs to deliver verifiable net-zero fossil fuels.
Canada's federal government supports a 16.5 billion carbon capture and storage project in Alberta tied to a west coast pipeline, announced in Budget 2025.
In Alberta in 2025–2026, the provincial government and Pathways Alliance are accelerating CCS investment through hub infrastructure, cost-shared pipelines, and enhanced TIER carbon pricing incentives.
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No CO2 Pipeline coalition in Alberta urges federal action on environmental impact assessment for a proposed Pathways Alliance CO2 pipeline CCS project, citing inadequate consultation and rupture and contamination risks.
In Edmonton, a coalition of Indigenous leaders and rural Albertans asked Ottawa for a federal environmental review of Alberta's Pathways CCS pipeline after Alberta waived an impact assessment in 2024.
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Canada and Alberta push carbon capture in oil sands and plan higher carbon pricing by April.
Food and Water Watch reports CCS failures in the United States amid Google Decatur project activity.
Industry, policymakers, and researchers evaluate CCS viability in 2024 globally as renewables become cheaper.