'Pumping billions of public money into CCUS basically amounts to a blank check to oil and gas companies to continue fossil fuel production and expansion.'
"There is no fixing fossil fuels, we need to ditch them to protect our climate."in a statement Monday as advocacy organizations revealed that 31,512 people across Canada are calling on the federal government to scrap a proposed carbon capture, utilization, and storage tax credit expected in the upcoming budget.
"Carbon capture is being used as a Trojan horse by oil and gas executives to continue, and even expand, fossil fuel production," Julia Levin, the group's senior Climate and Energy Program manager, said Monday."It's a dangerous distraction driven by the same polluters who created the climate emergency."
During the COP26 summit in Scotland late last year for parties to the Paris agreement, over 700 groups Leadnow campaigner Jesse Whattam declared Monday that"pumping billions of public money into CCUS basically amounts to a blank check to oil and gas companies to continue fossil fuel production and expansion."
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