Tax credits for carbon capture projects will just encourage more carbon emissions – Toronto Star

On Jan. 19, more than 400 Canadian scientists and energy experts wrote to Chrystia Freeland, the federal finance minister, and two of her cabinet colleagues urging the Trudeau government to scrap a forthcoming tax credit designed to hasten CCUS development.

The report found that since it went into production, in 2015, Quest has prevented about five million tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.

For starters, CCUS doesn’t do a thing to stop the burning of fossil fuels.

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