Opinion Decarbonizing energy exports makes no sense
News Source : Financial Post
News Summary
- Peter Flynn: The world needs our oil and gas and we need the wealth from selling it.
- Carbon capture will mainly make us uncompetitive, he says.
- Flynn: If we insist on being the only player to cover our costs, we spike the cost of our exports.
- The Middle East, Africa, Venezuela, Mexico, Russia and the U.S. don’t decarbonize oil for the end user.
- We will need Canada’s manufacturing heartland to support, lots of it.
Two decades ago, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) created a detailed accounting system for assigning carbon emissions to countries. Its still used under the UN Framework Convention on [+5018 chars]
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