Alberta to spend $495M on carbon capture pipeline

With so much information showing that this whole climate change is bunk, you'd think that they would sit on this for a while. When it's all shown to be BS, Alberta is going to look pretty stupid with their brand new hole in the ground.

What a waste of money... Why not put it into healthcare, education or some other social program....

So, what's wrong with cleaning up the environment anyway? I'm kind of tired of companies using the water and air, and not returning it in the condition we lent it to them in. Why do I always have to pay to clean up their mess?

I've got more than a few family members who could always use another pipeline welding job.

Give it a while. You can bet governments around the world are sitting on this new revaluation and waiting for each other to react.
Another year and Al gore will be eating at the soup kitchen and Suzuki will be using grow-ops for his only source of income.

This will replace the practice of pumping millions of gallons of fresh water down wells to push up more oil. Albertans have been complaining of this for years, all this water is lost forever. Cleaning up the air, conserving fresh water and getting the Canadian tax payer to throw in a few nickels at the same time is a win win win situation.

at least its a more practical solution than D Suzuki has offered.

Regardless of if Global Warming is real or not, it doesn't hurt to keep that crap out of the air.

Anyone been to China or L.A. lately? Don't know about you but I do not enjoy the air quality there.

Lethbridge Alberta has poor air quality?

Has this been done anywhere abd does it work? I can't imagine pumping a gas underground, expecting it to stay there and expecting oil to float on it.

Has this been done anywhere abd does it work? I can't imagine pumping a gas underground, expecting it to stay there and expecting oil to float on it.

Yep they are, have been for a couple of years from Nova Petrochemicals and I believe from Union Carbide also, east of Red Deer. Right now their trucking it to the wells and as far as I know, all the smart guys are happy with it.

I should add that the oil doesn't float, it's pressure that forces it through the rock formations or say up hill. There might be a pool right next to a well but 100 feet lower and it's not worth spending $25 or so million to get it. The way I understand how it works is they drill a small hole to it, pump the crap gas down and it pushes the oil into the pool the well is sucking out of. Just like how gas forces the syrup out of the fountain pop machine at your local 7 / 11.

Someone like Dino may want to fine tune that explanation.

Yeah! Let's BURY the stuff... problem solved.
Forrest Gump for Minister of the Environment!

No doubt, especially given that drought has hit eastern and southern Alberta hard over the past few years. All that water can be used for drinking or something else instead of being injected a km under the surface.