Explained: The Absolute Audacity of Brad Wall
It's almost as if he knew when and how he was going to cash-in once he left the Premier's office. Which would, of course, have been wildly inappropriate, if not corrupt.
The carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology former premier Brad Wall’s been touting as a success story for Whitecap Resources…
…was actually introduced to Saskatchewan by the NDP.
In 2009 Environment Minister Nancy Heppner, today senior communications advisor to Scott Moe, nosedived straight onto the hyperbolic record, claiming the International Energy Agency (IEA) said it would cost three times more to mitigate pollution without CCS:
Guess what the IEA says now, Nancy?
If you haven’t already, you should read the IEA’s November 2023 report on this. For me, the most frightening summation was this one:
“Oil and gas producers account for only 1% of total clean energy investment globally…oil and gas industry as a whole is a marginal force in the world’s transition to a clean energy system.”
In other words, the oil and gas companies that Scott Moe and his MLAs bow down to will continue to take and take from our province until their market dries up. Then those companies will abandon our lifeless corpse, leaving behind a vacuous landscape of environmental destruction that you’re going to pay to clean up, carpeted by zombie labourers.
Anyway.
What is CCS?
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