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What’s apparently different this time is that Canada’s largest oil sands producers have formed an alliance that plans to work with federal and provincial government to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from their operations by 2050.
The Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative will evaluate and accelerate the application of emerging emissions-reducing technologies including small modular nuclear reactors. The firms in the alliance account for 90% of tar sands oil production.
The province of Alberta last year joined New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan in a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to support the development and deployment of SMRs.
Canada's largest oil sands producers have formed an alliance that aims to work with federal and provincial government to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from their operations by 2050. The Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero initiative will, amongst other things, evaluate and accelerate the application of emerging emissions-reducing technologies including small modular nuclear reactors.