Premier Doug Ford’s government is opening the door to allowing underground carbon capture in Ontario, a way of fighting climate change by trapping and storing greenhouse gas emissions.
The government brought in legislation to repeal Ontario’s previous ban on injecting carbon dioxide underground, and is now proposing rules for carbon capture pilot projects.
The process involves capturing industrial emissions of CO2, compressing them into liquid, then putting them deep into the earth, in effect cancelling their release into the atmosphere.
Ontario’s Minister of Natural Resources, Graydon Smith, calls carbon capture a big opportunity for the province.
“You look at other jurisdictions, not only in
