Branding themselves the Pathways Alliance, six of the biggest producers operating in Canada’s oilsands have been running commercials touting their enthusiasm for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and their “plan” for doing so.
That plan might be more of a proposal at this point, and it might depend on billions of dollars in public funding. But one way of looking at the federal government’s proposed oil and gas emissions cap is that it might simply call on the Pathways Alliance — and every other oil company executive, industry association and political leader who agrees even in theory with the need to reduce emissions — to get moving.
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