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BUYER BEWARE: - Fossil Fuels Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada

1 Apr 2022

However in December 2021, the Parliamentary Budget Office estimated the cost of tax provisions to oil and gas Due to a lack of transparency and public reporting, companies and found that on average oil, gas and quantifying yearly financial support provided to the oil coal mining companies reduced annual federal and gas sector by the Government of Canada and its tax revenue by $1.8 billion on avera. [...] Building carbon capture plant’s full emissions, as well as the emissions infrastructure, capturing and compressing carbon from the energy used to power the CCUS system dioxide, building the infrastructure to pipe captured and the methane leakage from the extraction and carbon, and developing suitable geological storage transportation of the fossil gas, the total capture rate sites requires huge su. [...] The proposed tax credit is the result of lobbying from oil and gas companies.56 Oil and gas companies have asked the Canadian government to design the tax credit to pay for 75% of the cost to build carbon capture facilities.57 If the new CCUS investment tax credit is made available for oil and gas projects including fossil hydrogen, this would create a significant new fossil fuel subsidy, therefor. [...] 75 of 70%.77 (NWR) Partnership on public support between CNRL The first heavy oil refinery in However since the CCUS and the Alberta the world designed and built component was part of the Petroleum with carbon capture refinery, hasn’t been possible Marketing The carbon is transported to determine how much Commission via the ACT public support for CCUS (APMC) The project commenced in specifically t. [...] BUYER BEWARE 16 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA International leaders, such as the Executive Director • Cancel all government programs and tax of the International Energy Agency and the Secretary– measures that exclusively provide subsidies to oil General of the UN are urging countries to remove fossil and gas companies.
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