The Billion-Dollar Detour
Alberta's heavy emitters paid $2.6 billion into a climate fund over four years. Most of it never funded climate anything.
The story is in the ledger.
An engineer writing within the water-energy-food nexus, primarily about the distance between what the public is told about carbon accounting and what is actually happening in the ledgers, filings, and regulatory systems that define it.
Alberta's heavy emitters paid $2.6 billion into a climate fund over four years. Most of it never funded climate anything.
An ongoing investigation into Alberta’s Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) system — the carbon-pricing regime that collects billions from industrial emitters and spends most of it on something else.