Ottawa ties stalled carbon-capture project to new pipeline

Reducing emissions from Alberta’s oil sands, including progress on a massive carbon-capture project, will be a “necessary condition” to unlocking new pipelines to Canada’s coasts to access export markets, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday.

The Pathways Alliance carbon-capture initiative is a 400-kilometre-long pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil-sands facilities to an underground hub near Cold Lake, Alta., with the aim of reducing emissions by 22 megatonnes a year.