By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer Seven years after the 2015 Paris Agreement came into effect, Mark Carney said Canada should make a “big bet” on carbon capture to meet its emissions reduction goals. “For Canada as a whole, we need to make a big bet, or I should say investment rather than a bet, in carbon capture in Western Canada to address the 25 percent of our emissions that come from the oil and gas sector,” Carney remarked in 2022 at a conference in Montreal. That year, the oil and gas industry had emitted 216.7 megatonnes (Mt) of carbon, accounting for 31 percent of Canada’s total emissions. Three years later, as Prime Minister, Carney included Pathways Plus, a carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) proposal in…
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