Climate change fight has new Canadian businesses sucking CO2 from the atmosphere
Somewhere in west Texas, amid one of the most productive oilfields in the continent, a Canadian company is building a plant that it hopes will eventually suck from the air a million tonnes of carbon being pumped out of the ground all around it.
“We’re pulling the CO2 back down,” CEO Steve Oldham said in a recent interview.
People in labs and boardrooms around the world are beginning to confront
the realization that more needs to be done than cut emissions if the
world is to remain livable. Vast amounts of carbon already in the
atmosphere will have to be removed.