In Canada, this last week, the Pathways Alliance, facing measures in new federal legislation to penalize organizations that publish greenwashing statements, announced it was “scrubbing” its website. That’s the only scrubbing the Alliance of Canada’s six largest oil sands producers is doing. It has made no progress in implementing a promised carbon capture and storage (CCS) network of pipelines that has been paraded in front of the media for several years.
Now, a site that used to have all kinds of information and maps about its planned network to remove tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from oil sands production sites annually and pipe the gas to safe underground storage beares a one-page three-paragraph disclaimer.