#TorontoStar: "Alberta’s #oilpatch is making record billions. So why should we pay for their carbon capture plant?

So far, 2023 is shaping up as another year of booming profits for the #Alberta oilpatch and another year of industry sloth in making a start on its promised reductions of greenhouse gas emissions (#GHG)."

#OILigarchy #abpoli #ableg

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/02/04/albertas-oilpatch-is-making-record-billions-so-why-should-we-pay-for-their-carbon-capture-plant.html

Oklahoma's oil patch jobs haven't bounced back from recent bust
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/business/employment/2022/12/11/oklahomas-oil-field-jobs-havent-bounced-back-from-recent-bust/69692570007/

🔐 #Oklahoma #Energy #Jobs #OilPatch

Alberta Appeal Court keeps $217-million oilpatch cleanup liability case alive https://bit.ly/3wPbHAD #AlbertaCourts #OilPatch #Bankruptcy #abpoli #cdnpoli

“This is work that is essential to the province and could easily have been modified to have been done safely so nobody was put at risk,” said NDP MLA Marlin Schmidt, who worked as an environmental consultant in the energy industry before he was elected.

“It didn’t make any sense in the first place and I am relieved they reversed this terrible decision.” — https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/varcoe-environmental-monitoring-in-oilpatch-to-resume-after-alarming-pause-amid-pandemic/wcm/ae2bdd58-1ad5-4077-8109-434ed36443f4/ #environment #oilpatch #monitoring #abpoli