Despite what Shell Canada calls a very quiet 2009 and a plan to scale back on oilsands investment, the company says it continues to progress its oilsands-related carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiative. Quest, a $1.35-billion CCS project that would reduce emissions from Shell's Scotford upgrader (the downstream portion of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project) by 35 per cent, now has some $865 million in combined support from the Alberta and Canadian governments, but a decision to go ahead with full-scale operations remains at least a couple of years in the distance.
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