OTTAWA — Emissions reductions from a new agreement to build a large-scale carbon-capture project for the oilsands would be offset by the expected greenhouse gas pollution linked to the promised major pipeline through British Columbia, provincial documents show, as Alberta strives to double its production of oil over the next decade.
The federal government, Alberta and a group of oil companies unveiled a new “memorandum of understanding” on Monday that outlines an agreement to build the Pathways carbon capture project. Prime Minister Mark Carney has repeatedly said the Pathways project is required for the federal government’s support of the new oil pipeline Alberta wants built along the existing route of the Trans Mountain pipeline system from outside Edmonton to B.C.‘s Lower Mainland.
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