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Article: Canada : Canada seen funding new carbon capture plans.
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- November 11, 2009
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Byline: manish03
Canada may soon fund carbon capture and storage (CCS) in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, expanding its plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt told Reuters on Tuesday.
Canada's central government in Ottawa, which has committed about half of the C$1 billion it set aside earlier for CCS projects, is in talks with natural gas producing companies in the two western provinces regarding new projects, Raitt said in an interview.
Last month, Canada's national and provincial governments announced CCS project funding worth more than C$1.6 billion ($1.5 billion) for a TransAlta-operated coal-fired ...