Canada greenlights world's largest CCS project

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$1.24bn Boundary Dam facility should be capturing one million tonnes of CO2 each year from 2014

The world's largest commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has been given the go-ahead in Canada. The $1.24bn project in Saskatchewan will see CCS technology constructed next to the...

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