Tax credit for carbon capture the wrong horse to back in a race against time

We don’t have time for industry to spend decades getting carbon capture technology right. Our climate can’t afford for us to continue powering up with oil and gas for decades to come.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's federal budget, set to be released April 7, will likely include an utterly misguided tax credit for carbon capture, utilization, and storage, writes Bruce Wilson.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BRUCE WILSON

April 6, 2022

Scarcely a year into my first job with now defunct Britoil in 1986, I lost my job like many others as oil prices crashed. Young and optimistic, I went to Africa and applied my skills to building a dam. Eventually, I returned to the oil and gas sector, building a 30-year career, half of those years w...

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