Sometimes the process from a simple idea to an applied technology seems to move faster than we think. Just having posted an article about the prototype project CO2-Sink in Germany (storing CO2 underground), the Canadians are taking action in that matter. Not for the first time and with a slight difference to the German project.
The plan is to build a pipeline in Alberta transporting carbon dioxide emissions released through the production of oil sand to old oil fields, where it is injected underground. Storing CO2 in those fields is a technology which has been known about and applied for quite some time. There are several companies in Canada and the States using this technology. The problem is that only certain fields can be used for storage and that the process costs are enormous.

Finding new ways of applying CO2 not only to those fields but also to different layers of underground (e.g. layers of saline aquifer as it is done in Germany) would give us more alternatives and literally more ground to cover.
Nonetheless, the major pipeline project in Canada is good.
First, because it is the only incentive for oil sand producers to capture carbon dioxide formerly being released into the atmosphere. And second, with its estimated costs of 1.5 billion Canadian Dollar it shows that governments are now willing to spend some money in order to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.Read article Alberta eyes carbon dioxide pipeline for oil sands (globeandmail.com)