Oh, darn.
A plan by Saskatchewan and Montana to clean up the air by pumping carbon dioxide emissions underground has been buried.
Saskatchewan Innovation Minister Rob Norris admitted Thursday that talks on the proposed $270-million carbon capture and storage project quietly ended late last fall.
“That chapter has come to a close. Those talks have been discontinued,” Norris said at the provincial legislature in Regina.”
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Saskatchewan was prepared to provide up to $50 million for the project and asked the Canadian government to pitch in $100 million. Montana wanted about $100 million from a U.S. federal stimulus package.
But federal money never came in either country.
I’d like to think that this is evidence of an outbreak of common sense, but my cynical side says it simply means the Federal governments have found better boondoggles to pi$$ away their taxpayers’ dollars.
I’d just like to point out that you can’t clean up the air by pumping carbon dioxide emissions underground. CO2 IS air.
Yippee ki-yay!
Whew! That was a close one.
Suzuki must be going apoplectic.
I’ve got a great idea, pump it into the air, maybe it will warm up to -20.
“Innovation Minister”? The idea that any government entity could innovate is laughable to anyone who has ever dealt with the public sector.
Now how will Dr Evil hold the Canadians hostage for warmer weather. Before all this common sense broke out Gore was going to control the CO2 tap, and for a billion dollars he was going to let the CO2 back out to warm this artic paradice. That was close, we could have not had freezing to death to look forward to, whew.
Wait… NEITHER federal government kicked in? To hear the story on Newstalk yesterday afternoon, the impression was left that it was only the Canadian government that wasn’t willing to kick in.
If that’s the case, then this is yet another non-news story.
I love good news first thing in the moroning.
But, but, but the premier insists it not dead.
Saskatchewan premier says carbon capture project changed, but not over
The Canadian Press
Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:52:00 CST Share |
SASKATOON – Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says a project aimed at cleaning up the air by pumping carbon dioxide emissions underground isn’t dead.
Something about tthe private sector ya da ya da.
I think the private sector will find out that $400/ton plant food is not feasible for any purpose. I wish these politicians would just have enough balls to come out and speak against the eco-freaks
And when they do Riel Diel, I will happily start contributing to them again.
Another Climate Gate dividend.
The governments seem to feel more comfortable standing up to the eco-facist blackmail.
After the winter Saskatchewan and Montana have had, this crap would be tough to sell. There are only so many lefties after all. The whole idea that carbon “capture” would be “cleaning up the air” is just absurd, anyway, though that never stopped the ecofascists before.
I phoned the Prime Minister just before he signed the Copenhagan POS, I mean accord.
I didn’t speak to Prime Minister Steve but one of his secretaries mentioned carbon capture as the way to handle global warming.
This is a step.
Yay! Mr. Wall may actually get a donation again…
the whole idea of this is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of….unbelievable.
Stelmach’s demise was certainly helped along by his plan to capture CO2. Let’s hope his successor takes note.
The governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer, Democrat, was a little bit presumptuous and a lot of dumb in assuming Obama would dump Federal vote-buying dollars into a state he lost in 2008.
This is good news!
Maybe it will drop the price on building new coal fired power plants. (although I still like the small nuke option.)
Does this mean that the CO2 capture infrastructure already in place can now be killed off?
(Wouldn’t that lower the price of electricity from those coal plants now having to maintain equipment for CO2 sequestration? I don’t know.)
The socialist leaders in Saskatchewan, James Wood & Murray Mandryk, are portraying this as a failure. All it is going to do is entrench people further…that might be a good thing.
I don’t know why people think it’s a good idea when there is evidence that it can kill.
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/21/the-strangest-disaster-of-the-20th-century/
Another stupid (and expensive) solution to a non existent problem thwarted by government incompetence.
Sometimes that trait among the political classes can wor FOR you.
G, I wouldn’t bet on it. Power generation is always thoroughly political long before the economics are considered, which is why we have the wind turbine fiasco.
Depressing as it may be, I can’t help but think that this decision has completely killed the chance for any new base load coal-fired facility. Because now the politicians can no longer argue that a solution to the emissions is in the works. Irrespective of the lack of any other solution to the non-existent problem of CO2, I will bet dollars to nickels that within our lifetimes not a single new coal-fired plant will be built anywhere in Canada. To do so, any Canadian government would be stating publicly and in policy that the country is deserting the Kyoto Protocol. No Canadian government has ever walked away from an international protocol, however silly it might be, and I don’t think our current crop has any more political courage than those in the past.
I hedge this bet in one respect only. If the WR gets elected in Alberta, it might happen there, because clearly they and their voters don’t give a rat’s @$$ about the green slime or enviro-diktats from Ottawa.