The world needs our oil and gas and we need the wealth from selling it. Carbon capture will mainly make us uncompetitive

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Two decades ago, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) created a detailed accounting system for assigning carbon emissions to countries. It’s still used under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to which Canada is a signatory. A fundamental but arbitrary decision in that accounting is that the