Shell's Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It's Capturing

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BeauHD posted from the whoops dept. on Friday January 21st.

A new report has found that a first-of-its-kind "green" Shell facility in Canada is emitting more greenhouse gases than it's capturing, throwing into question whether taxpayers should be funding it. Shell's carbon capture and storage facility in the tarsands captured 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide between 2015 and 2019. The hydrogen plant emits 7.5 million tons of greenhouse gases in the same period, including methane, which has 80 times the warming power of carbon during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, according to a new report from Global Witness. Global Witness said that the "climate-forward" part of the Scotford plant has the same carbon footprint as 1.2 million fuel-powered cars.

Dominic Eagleton, who wrote the report, thinks Shell is misleading the public by only giving them one side of the story. He said industry has been pushing for governments to subsidize the production of fossil hydrogen that's supplemented with carbon capture technology as a "climate-friendly" way forward, but the new report shows that's not the case. In an email, Shell said the facility was introduced to display the merits of carbon capture technology, but didn't directly respond to the allegation that its hydrogen component emitted 7.5 million tons of greenhouse gases.

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