{"id":61605,"date":"2022-01-22T15:46:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T20:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61605"},"modified":"2022-01-22T15:46:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T20:46:45","slug":"shells-massive-carbon-capture-plant-is-emitting-more-than-its-capturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61605","title":{"rendered":"Shell\u2019s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It\u2019s Capturing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shell\u2019s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It\u2019s Capturing<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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SHELL’S QUEST CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE FACILITY IN FORT SASKATCHEWAN, ALBERTA.\u00a0THE CANADIAN PRESS\/JASON FRANSON<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A first-of-its-kind \u201cgreen\u201d Shell facility in Alberta is emitting more greenhouse gases than it\u2019s capturing, throwing into question whether taxpayers should be funding it, a new report has found.<\/p>\n

Shell\u2019s Quest carbon capture and storage facility captured 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the hydrogen produced at its Scotford complex between 2015 and 2019. Scotford refines oil from the Alberta tar sands.<\/p>\n

But a\u00a0new report\u00a0<\/a>from human rights organization Global Witness found the hydrogen plant emitted 7.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in the same timeframe\u2014including methane, which has\u00a080 times the warming power<\/a> of carbon during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, and accounts for about a quarter of man-made warming today.<\/p>\n

To put that in perspective, the \u201cclimate-forward\u201d part of the Scotford plant alone has the same\u00a0carbon footprint<\/a>\u00a0per year as 1.2 million fuel-powered cars, Global Witness said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do think Shell is misleading the public in that sense and only giving us one side of the story,\u201d said Dominic Eagleton, who wrote the report. He said industry\u2019s been pushing for governments to subsidize the production of fossil hydrogen (hydrogen produced from natural gas) that\u2019s supplemented with carbon capture technology as a \u201cclimate-friendly\u201d way forward, but the new report shows that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n

In an email, Shell said the facility was introduced to display the merits of carbon capture technology, but didn\u2019t directly respond to the allegation that its hydrogen component emitted 7.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n

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Shell\u2019s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It\u2019s Capturing A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars. SHELL’S QUEST CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE FACILITY IN FORT SASKATCHEWAN, ALBERTA.\u00a0THE CANADIAN PRESS\/JASON FRANSON A first-of-its-kind \u201cgreen\u201d Shell facility in Alberta is emitting more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[32534,23203,113,328,786,13929],"class_list":["post-61605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-anya-zoledziowski","tag-carbon-capture","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-technology","tag-vice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61606,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61605\/revisions\/61606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}