Oil & Gas Uses Carbon Capture As Three-Card Monte
Just as you’ll never make money on a street card hustle, CCUS doesn’t address climate change
A few months ago, Sami Khan, a Simon Fraser University Professor and MIT engineering PhD, reached out to me. He’d read something I’d published on ocean geoengineering and wanted to know if I was interested in talking with his PhD, master’s degree, and undergraduate students about the subject, and carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration as a guest lecturer in a CCUS co-op course he was running.
I checked to make sure that he knew how bearish I was on carbon capture in general, and he did, and wanted to expose his students to me regardless. Recently the date arrived and I spent three hours with Khan and his students. First, a bit of background on the program.
Khan was one of the first faculty members of Simon Fraser University’s Sustainable Engineering Program at the Surrey campus and had the opportunity with early colleagues to shape it. It’s a forward-thinking initiative designed to address the pressing environmental challenges of our time through innovative engineering solutions. Established with a vision to integrate sustainability principles into engineering education, the program focuses on the development of technologies and systems that promote…
