Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Province intends to allow carbon sequestration

The Ontario government has served notice it intends to amend legislation to allow for carbon sequestration.

Projects are most likely to be located in rural areas.


The notice said we are proposing to amend the Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Act to remove the prohibition on carbon sequestration (i.e. the permanent storage of carbon dioxide in deep underground geologic formations). 


If approved, these changes would represent a first step towards enabling geologic carbon storage in the province, it said.