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Pathways Alliance or Oil Sands Pathways Alliance is a consortium established on June 15, 2022 of Canada's largest oil sands producersCanadian Natural Resources, Cenovus Energy, Imperial Oil, MEG Energy, Suncor Energy and ConocoPhillipswith the goal of achieving "net-zero by 2050". Together these companies represent about 95% of "Canada’s oil sands production."

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Background
The Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) was established on 2 March 2012 by oil sands producers to accelerate responses to Environmental Priority Areas (EPAs). It was described in a 2013 Geoscience Canada journal article as a "new kind of industry association" that was created in the early stages of a new environment management regime in Alberta2010 to 2013.

On 19 June 2021, with the price of oil plummeting during the COVID-19 pandemic the Oil Sands Pathways to Net-Zero was unveiled. It predated the increase in the price of oil and included a call for the federal government to finance 75% of the proposed projects.

By November 2021, Suncor, Imperial, Canadian Natural Resources, MEG Energy, ConocoPhillips, and Cenovus, were testing their Oil Sands Pathway Alliance campaign with focus groups.

Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero Alliance, Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), and the Oil Sands Community Alliance (OSCA)

In June 2022, the Oil Sands Pathways to Net Zero Alliance described their plan for reaching net-zero that "centers on carbon capture and storage (CCUS) processes and "other emerging technologies like direct air capture".

On June 15, 2022, Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus Energy, Imperial Oil, MEG Energy, Suncor Energy and ConocoPhillips established Pathways Alliance.

In 2022, Pathways Alliance "announced that exploratory drilling would begin that winter to create underground reservoirs in northern Alberta, where carbon captured during the process of oil sands extraction would be stored. The proposal, which may take several years to gain regulatory approval, includes the construction of a pipeline to transport captured carbon from over twenty oil sands facilities to an underground storage facility near Cold Lake".

By January 2023, Phase 1 was under construction with a $500 million already invested by the consortium. On 4 January 2023, the Pathways Alliance and the Alberta Government entered into a Carbon Sequestration Evaluation Agreement.

In March 2023, Pathways president, Kendall Dilling, called on the federal government to financially support their CCUS projects.

Misleading advertisement campaign
In March 2023, Greenpeace Canada filed a complaint against Pathways Alliance with the Competition Bureau, alleging that the consortium had "been running a misleading advertisement campaign to influence federal regulations and manipulate public support for oil sands development."