Hope is not a strategy. Unless, that is, you’re a fervent supporter of big carbon-capture-and-sequestration (CCS) projects, believing that they’ll significantly reduce emissions of CO2. In that case, hope is pretty much all you have. That’s because CCS projects have a history of raising hopes and then dashing them. For people who want another oil pipeline built from Alberta to the west coast, hopes are today being raised again, this time via the Pathways Alliance proposal.