Reducing greenhouse gas emissions can potentially reap huge profits for companies and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, experts told the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) 2007 Oil Conference in Calgary.
However, speakers in a session that addressed the “profligate use of energy” had different views on whether fossil fuels should or will continue to play a dominate role in light of the need to reduce emissions and stave off disastrous global warming and climate change.
David Keith, an expert on carbon capture and storage and a Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment at the University of Calgary, told…
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