Bitumen demand was down 4% in India in April-Sept.-hit by July 2017 goods and services tax reform after an abrupt demonetization scheme from Delhi in Nov. 2016. Several regional refiners reduced bitumen output in favor of 180-cst high-sulfur fuel oil, but demand fell faster than supplies ...
Even environment activists in Alberta, Canada blame the tar sand industry for the rapid depredation of Canada’s boreal forests. The year 2015 saw Republican legislators attempting to force the issue by approving a bill that would allow the Keystone XL’s proposed project to move ahead. ...
According to the Alberta government, the Path2Zero project — which already started construction in April of this year — will receive C$1.8bn ($1.3bn) from the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program, as well as C$400m in investment tax credits from the federal government for both carbon ca...
Thumbnail image: The Sherwood Park Suncor Energy Edmonton Refinery towers behind a Toyota car dealership in September 2021 in Alberta. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The tax credit, introduced in the spring budget, has no such restrictions. Collins pointed out even if the emissions from producing the oil are trapped, emissions still arise when the products are used. Last fall, environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco criticized an aid program to help oil and ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/carbon-tax-debate-1.5143916 Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation; University of Waterloo https://www.intactcentreclimateadaptation.ca/ “In the US, 20% of power comes from nuclear, producing only 2000 tons of waste per year that would not even fill 3000 sq fo...
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It was estimated that a net profit of 233,976 USD can be generated and simultaneously 210 tonnes carbon emissions can be reduced, using the historic traffic and electricity data of Alberta. Furthermore, considering the Canadian carbon tax in the optimization increases the net profit and carbon ...
When Dr. Julian Somers, director of Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA), was commissioned by Alberta’s Ministry of Health to conduct arapid review of safer supply researchin 2022, his team found that there was no credible evidence tha...
Stone wrote that the “fledgling Mahoney and Drevna efforts seem to signal an expansion of Koch-backed drives against subsidies and tax breaks for alternative fuels to the transportation sector, at a time when support may be on the rise in Washington and some states for boosting electric vehicles...