Don Martin, National Post Published: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Oilsands projects built after 2012 will be forced to incorporate technology to capture and bury "the vast majority" of their carbon discharge through a future pipeline subsidized by the federal government.
Good news there. But existing oilsands plants and those now under construction must only curb the "intensity" of emissions per barrel of output, which means today's carbon discharge will double by the year 2018 before it flatlines.
The push to stamp out "dirty coal" power generation sounds impressive because it will banish new plants of that type entirely after 2012.
But the department only knows of two or three coal generators still on the drawing boards anywhere in Canada.
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