Affordable Housing, Cleantech Investment, Carbon Capture Subsidy Headline 2022 Federal Budget

The 304-page document confirms funding for the $9.1 billion in new measures announced in the government’s Emissions Reduction Plan last week, while adding $2.6 billion over five years for the CCUS tax credit. “Carbon pricing is an important part of driving Canada towards a cleaner economy,” the budget states, in a section that acknowledges the […]

Don’t Count on Carbon Capture to Win ‘Race Against Time’, Ex-Shell Engineer Urges Ottawa

Wilson’s post appeared just a day before Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled a 2022 budget that contained a long list of green economy and affordable housing measures, but drew climate hawks’ wrath with its promise of C$7.1 billion in carbon capture tax credits over an eight-year span. “That’s because it’s faster and cheaper to scale […]

IPCC: New methods for Australia’s carbon future – Cosmos Magazine

It’s also one of the world’s more significant contributors to climate change and, of the so-called ‘developed’ nations, one of the most reticent to abandon its attachment to the fossil-fuel sector. In Australia, carbon drawdown has additional benefits. Agriculture is at once part of the problem and a key to the solution. Farming requires clearing […]

UCP government ‘pleased’ with federal budget’s carbon capture tax credit | Edmonton Journal

Alberta has leaned heavily into investing in CCUS technology to tackle its emissions, and federal credits of up to 75 per cent have been called for by some industry proponents. In late March, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals announced a goal of reducing emissions more than 40 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 — […]

Budget 2022: Ottawa unveils $2.6B carbon capture tax credit for energy sector – Red Deer Advocate

Starting in 2022, companies will be able to claim a tax credit of up to 60 per cent for direct air capture projects and 50 per cent for all other eligible carbon capture projects. “It’s potentially a lot of money, and especially very quickly,” Fellows said of the tax credit. Canadian oil and gas companies […]

Carbon capture tax credit is Budget 2022’s big-ticket climate item | Canada’s National Observer

Up until 2030, the investment credit rates are set at 60 per cent for direct air capture technology, which sucks carbon dioxide out of the air, 50 per cent for other CCUS projects, including the capture of emissions from oil and gas production and hard-to-decarbonize industries like steel, and 37.5 per cent for storage, transportation […]

Tax and the budget: from carbon capture investment credits to hikes for banks – The Lawyer’s Daily

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Canada creates carbon-capture incentives, critical mineral plan to cut emissions | Reuters

“This in and of itself probably isn’t enough for a final investment decision, but it’s a very important step. The government will extend a C$5,000 incentive for buying electric vehicles – begun in 2019 – to March 2025. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching […]

Trudeau proposes tax credit to cover 50% of carbon capture technology cost – Financial Post

The Trudeau government’s new fiscal plan also includes a 60-per-cent credit for investment in direct air capture technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Conventional oil producers in particular were disappointed with the federal government’s decision to opt against extending the credit to projects that capture carbon dioxide for use in enhanced oil recovery , […]

Price volatility and greenwashing: do Gas and LNG make economic or climate sense? – Energy Post

The international scientific community says unequivocally that the world must reduce dependence on coal, oil, and natural gas to meet climate targets. Industry proponents are also lobbying for gas to be added to green finance rules, which would open new sources of capital for gas projects. Instead, natural gas and LNG are fundamentally unsustainable, given their greenhouse […]