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In the absence of public communication from the Pathways Alliance, a clean energy think-tank says the oilsands industry group is running out of time to deliver on its emissions reduction promises. An oilsands facility is reflected in a tailings pond near Fort McMurray, Alta., on July 10, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Pressure still on oilsands sector despite silence after greenwashing law: think tank

Proposed Pathways Alliance carbon capture project should still go ahead, say researchers, after company keeps quiet since imposition of Competition Act.

FILE PHOTO: Greenpeace activists protest outside the BP Canadian offices in downtown Calgary, April 15, 2010. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
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Canada oil industry group calls for changes to anti-greenwashing laws

CAPP urges Canada's Competition Bureau to revise anti-greenwashing laws, citing risks, penalties, and unclear guidelines.

Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson speaks during a press conference in Ottawa, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Wilkinson says he expects between 20 and 25 commercial-scale carbon capture and storage projects to break ground in Canada within the next decade.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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More carbon capture projects to be green-lit soon: Canada’s Natural Resources Minister

Minister Wilkinson says he expects between 20 and 25 commercial-scale carbon capture and storage projects to break ground in Canada within the next...

The Competition Bureau says it will speed the development of guidance on the interpretation of new provisions in the Competition Act aimed at greenwashing.The government's Competition Bureau website is pictures on a mobile phone and laptop screen in Ottawa on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Competition Bureau to speed development of guidance on new greenwashing rules

The Competition Bureau says it will speed the development of guidance on new provisions in the Competition Act aimed at greenwashing

Shell Canada Products says it's going ahead with its Polaris carbon capture project in Alberta.A Shell logo is displayed at a gas station in London, on March 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Frank Augste
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Shell going ahead with Canadian carbon capture and storage project

Shell Canada Products says it's going ahead with its Polaris carbon capture project designed to capture 650,000 tonnes of CO2 annually

The Alberta Energy Regulator says it expects the province's oilsands production to grow by more than 17 per cent by 2033. Boilers—where steam is created—at the Cenovus Christina Lake oilsands facility southeast of Fort McMurray, Alta., on Wednesday April 24, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracke
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Alberta regulator projects 17 per cent growth in oilsands production by 2033

The Alberta Energy Regulator says most growth will come from in situ operations.

Greenpeace activists, some dressed in business suits and wearing smoke stack hats, 'greenwash' BP's Calgary headquarters with large letters spelling out 'TAR SANDS' in Calgary, Thursday, April 15, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Canadian oil and gas industry making risky play over greenwashing law: experts

Experts in communications and greenwashing say Canada's oil and gas industry is making a risky play in so fully scrubbing environmental claims from...

Pathways Alliance CEO Kendall Dilling is interviewed at the World Petroleum Congress  in Calgary, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Pathways Alliance oilsands group removes all website, social media content

Pathways Alliance oilsands group has removed all content from its website and social media feeds amid uncertainty around an anti-greenwashing provision

FILE PHOTO: A bitumen sample from an experiment to get bitumen out of oil sands is shown at the Imperial Oil research lab in Calgary, Alberta, Canada March 12, 2020. Picture taken March 12, 2020. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
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Canada oil and gas emissions cap likely to curtail production, report says

In a report commissioned by Alberta, Deloitte modelling showed that implementing carbon capture and storage would render high-cost oil sands mines economically unviable.

dian oil and gas companies facing a federally imposed emissions cap will cut their production rather than invest in emissions-reducing carbon capture and storage technology, a new report by Deloitte says. A dump truck works near an oil sands extraction facility near Fort McMurray, Alta. on Sunday June 1, 2014.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Frans
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Canada’s emissions cap not possible without oil, gas production cuts: Deloitte

A new report commissioned by the Alberta government suggests that oil and gas companies will cut production rather than invest in carbon capture...

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