Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand. Hawking expensive, speculative technology to suck CO2 out of the air and store it underground — rather than transitioning away from fossil fuels — enables immensely profitable oil companies to continue business as usual while presenting themselves as part of the solution to the climate crisis.

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    Enhance Energy and Wolf Midstream’s 240-km Alberta Carbon Trunk Line, which has received $843 in government and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board subsidies, transports captured carbon from a refinery and fertilizer plant to drill for more oil.

    It’s 100% a scam just like the others, but if it only cost the government $843 I guess we got off lightly on that one.