co-operative.coop - 28 days ago
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The study produced by The Co-operative Financial Services and WWF-UK debunks the idea, lauded by oil companies and the Canadian government, that carbon capture and storage (CCS) will significantly counter the high levels of greenhouse gases emitted in the production of oil from tar sands ...
guardian.co.uk - 25 days ago
businessgreen.com - 27 days ago
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Business Green: The potential rollout of carbon capture
and storage (CCS) technology should not be used to...
justify the continued expansion of Canada's controversial tar sands industry, according to a major investor-backed report released yesterday. ...
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Canada: Report slams low-carbon tar sand "myth"
itsgettinghotinhere.org - 29 days ago
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Today in Ottawa, 100 concerned citizens staged mock
deaths at the Royal Bank of Canada, accompanied by...
chanting and chalk outlines. Following a weekend of activity at Powershift Canada , the action called attention to RBC’s role as the lead ...
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Die-In at Royal Bank of Canada Includes 100 Protesters ...
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Canada: Report slams low-carbon tar sand "myth"
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The potential rollout of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology should not be used to justify the continued expansion of Canada's controversial tar sands industry, according to a major investor-backed report released yesterday. The report, from Co-operative Financial Services and WWF-UK, challenges oil industry and Canadian government claims that fitting emerging CCS technologies to the plants used to extract and refine oil from tar sands will sufficiently limit the emissions generated from the energy-intensive process. The study found that the amount of CO2 emitted ...
Tar Sands CCS Myth Shattered
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... (Business Green) Even under the most optimistic scenarios for CCS development, the projected emissions from tar sands developments would be greater than Canada’s entire 2050 carbon budget. The potential rollout of carbon capture and storage (CCS) should not be used to justify the continued expansion of Canada’s controversial tar sands industry, according to a major investor-backed report released yesterday. In August, Hillary ...
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