He and his administration have made all kinds of commitments to voters and in the Paris Agreement to cut the nation’s carbon emissions, a large proportion of which come from boiling rocks in the Alberta oil sands.
Western alienation is not a small problem for Canadians, and Trudeau is not planning to phase out energy production but is trying to phase out subsidies to the oil industry.
The trouble is, a report by Global Witness concluded the Quest plant doesn’t work very well as a demonstration of CCUS and is only capturing 48% of the carbon emissions rather than the 90% that was promised by the industry.
This kind of defeats the entire purpose of the credit, which is to keep the oil, the money, and the votes flowing out of Alberta.