EDMONTON – Compared to oilsands mines and coal-fired electricity plants, farms aren’t considered large emitters of greenhouse gases.
But agriculture accounts for about 10 per cent of Canadian greenhouse gas emissions, according to Environment Canada. Much of that comes in the form of nitrous oxide, released during fertilizer usage.
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A proposed pipeline that would carry carbon dioxide from east of Edmonton to Central Alberta should be operating by the middle of 2015, says the CEO of the company behind the project.
“We should start seeing some construction occurring in 2013, but the pipeline itself . . . would probably be in 2014,” said Susan Cole of Enhance Energy Inc.
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