Canada is cleaning up it's oil sands Today from oilprice.com
A new study, however, shows that Canada is already making progress in bringing down the carbon footprint of the Albertan oil and gas industry. Using internal company data from three Albertan oil sands operations, researchers from the University of Calgary, University of Toronto and Stanford University found that these companies’ greenhouse gas emissions are on the decline. “Current emissions at the three sites are 14 percent to 35 percent lower than reported in previous studies,” The Globe and Mail reported last week, and “new technologies could further decrease those upstream emissions by 14 percent to 19 percent compared with current technology.
I have read that Suncor's Foot Hills site is already cleaner in terms of GHG than some oil produced in California.
In an attempt to sway Biden's mind about KXL, TRP was boasting this week that they would be able to deliver net zero GHG emmissions for their proposed KXL pipeline by 2030. If TRP can do it, ENB can do it.
Suncor and CNQ are going to keep LIne 3 running at capacity well past the end of my life.
I think the goal should be to clean it up, not tear it up.