Calling Carney’s Carbon Capture Bluff
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2026 10:59 amCalling Carney’s Carbon Capture Bluff
QUOTE: "He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here’s the reality."
Andrew Nikiforuk - July 27, 2026 - The Tyee
EXCERPT: "In a recent paper, two oilpatch veterans delivered a familiar verdict: “Despite extensive funding and research, carbon capture technologies have failed to deliver scalable, cost-effective, or operationally robust outcomes.”
CCUS is turning out to be a perfect example of what the social critic Jacques Ellul called the “technological bluff.” The bluff begins with prominent members of the state, media and industry making extravagant claims about the ability of an emerging technology to foster “progress.” Their boasts drown out authentic debate.
But once deployed, the technology creates more problems, requiring a new agenda to solve them and initiating another cycle of the technological bluff. By promising to give us what we want, the technology “ultimately dictates what we want,” warned Ellul.
Now we’ve been told by Carney and Smith that CCUS is key to ridding the world of carbon emissions by 2050, building a new Canada and accelerating innovation. What could possibly go wrong? . . . "
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QUOTE: "He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here’s the reality."
Andrew Nikiforuk - July 27, 2026 - The Tyee
EXCERPT: "In a recent paper, two oilpatch veterans delivered a familiar verdict: “Despite extensive funding and research, carbon capture technologies have failed to deliver scalable, cost-effective, or operationally robust outcomes.”
CCUS is turning out to be a perfect example of what the social critic Jacques Ellul called the “technological bluff.” The bluff begins with prominent members of the state, media and industry making extravagant claims about the ability of an emerging technology to foster “progress.” Their boasts drown out authentic debate.
But once deployed, the technology creates more problems, requiring a new agenda to solve them and initiating another cycle of the technological bluff. By promising to give us what we want, the technology “ultimately dictates what we want,” warned Ellul.
Now we’ve been told by Carney and Smith that CCUS is key to ridding the world of carbon emissions by 2050, building a new Canada and accelerating innovation. What could possibly go wrong? . . . "
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