Life alongside the $16-billion plan to bury oilsands carbon pollution under rural Alberta – The Narwhal

Oct. 30, 2024

The Pathways Alliance of six oilsands companies plans to reduce carbon pollution by transporting it through a 400-kilometre pipeline then injecting it underground. But what about water, farmland and Indigenous Rights?

The town of St. Paul, Alta., is the kind of place where you can buy a basket of homemade preserves and local beef jerky from the Chamber of Commerce on Main Street. It’s a farming community at heart, surrounded by fields and gently rolling hills. It’s not huge, just under 6,000 people, and the biggest tourist attraction is the world’s first UFO landing pad, which attracts “an average of 20 people per day,” according to the local newspaper.

“It’s not the center of the universe,” Amil Shapka says with a smile. He’s a retired dentist who describes himself as being “born here, raised here, went to school here, left for the big city, hated it, came back and lived happily ever after.”

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