{"id":4849,"date":"2024-05-02T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2024-05-02T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:44:57","slug":"carbon-capture-plan-not-economically-feasible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2024\/05\/02\/carbon-capture-plan-not-economically-feasible\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Capture plan &#8220;not economically feasible.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well duh! If it costs $2.4 billion to extract &#8220;up to&#8221; 3 million tonnes per year, then at Canada&#8217;s carbon &#8220;tax&#8221; rate of $80 per ton it would take about 100 years to pay for just the capital cost of the plant.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-capital-power-alberta-carbon\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Energy&amp;utm_content=2024-5-2_15&amp;utm_term=Carbon%20capture%20plan%20faces%20doubts%20after%20Capital%20Power%20cancels%20%242.4-billion%20project&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter&amp;cu_id=rhD40Z4eHoO77sGY5czjHg%3D%3D\">Carbon capture plan faces doubts after Capital Power cancels $2.4-billion project &#8211; The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well duh! If it costs $2.4 billion to extract &#8220;up to&#8221; 3 million tonnes per year, then at Canada&#8217;s carbon &#8220;tax&#8221; rate of $80 per ton it would take about 100 years to pay for just the capital cost of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2024\/05\/02\/carbon-capture-plan-not-economically-feasible\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}