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Alberta’s energy industry has solved carbon dioxide. That’s what you need to know as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau drives the final stake into the heart of our province’s innovative oil and gas sector with his obnoxious bills C-48 and C-69.

Alberta’s energy industry is on the cusp of saving the planet. I believe this after sitting through three days and nearly 50 presentations from CEOs, scientists, financiers and other energy experts at the Global Petroleum Show this week. It was like being in a parallel universe.

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In 2016, a group of industry leaders created the Natural Gas Innovation Fund and began funding projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The projects they seeded are too numerous to mention, but energy industry CEO Sue Riddell Rose said we are close to being able to achieve zero-emissions natural gas.

You have to pause for a minute to appreciate the breathtaking implications of what that would mean.