Canadian Press reports that carbon dioxide is fizzing out of the ground over the experimental Cenovus (Encana) carbon-capture-and-storage project in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
The evidence comes in a study financed by the farming couple who reported that they were finding an increasing number of dead small animals in a quary that also featured explosions and fizzy geysers.
The programme is “yet another bung to industrial production”, experts say.
Critics say new LNG ventures in British Columbia saddle Indigenous communities with debt, opaque ownership structures, and financial risk that could leave them owing billions.
Campaigners have highlighted the irony of the Tory peer warning about threats to free speech at a think tank bankrolled by a repressive regime.
Corporate pledges to fight deforestation by turning degraded pasture into cropland seen boosting demand for harmful chemical inputs.
