CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE (CCS) NEW CARBON CAPTURE PROJECTS TO PROCEED IN ALBERTA AS INVESTMENT IN EMISSIONS REDUCTION GROWS by Deborah Jaremko & Cody Ciona
T he recent announcements that two new carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in Alberta will proceed sends the signal that the province is a prime location for investment in emis- sions reduction, says an industry ex- pert. Shell and partner ATCO EnPower will proceed with a new CCS project at the Scotford refinery and chemicals com - plex near Edmonton, while on a small- er scale Entropy Inc. will add a second phase of CCS at its Glacier gas plant near Grande Prairie. Combined, the projects are expect- ed to capture and store about 810,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, the equivalent of taking nearly 200,000 cars off the
“It’s all great news and hopefully more are to come,”
emissions in their countries based on the lessons learned here.” More CCS needed CCS projects around the world to- day have the capacity to store about 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year. To meet climate targets, that needs to grow significantly. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Inter- national Energy Agency and others, by 2030 the world needs CCS to store one gigatonne of CO2 per year, rising to 10 gigatonnes by 2050. Valiaho says Alberta is drawing new CCS interest thanks to a mixture of fa-
vorable geology, close proximity of a variety of emitting industries, and a “hospitable” investment climate. “Western Canada has almost 400 bil - lion tons of sequestration potential. And when you look at where the emis- sions are, most of the emissions in Canada, the larger sources, are cen- tered over those storage opportuni-
road annually. Entropy’s project is to start in 2026 and Shell/ATCO’s in 2028. “It’s all great news and hopefully more are to come,” says Beth (Har- dy) Valiaho, vice-president of public af- fairs and international engagement for the International CCS Knowledge Cen- tre. “Not only is Alberta open for business to do these projects, but we’ve got a lot to share to help others reduce
ties,” she says. CCS in Alberta
including oil and gas production, refin - ing, petrochemicals, cement and fertil- izer. “CCS is a solution across industries. That’s why you see CCS popping up in Alberta, because of its diversified
emission profile.”
Alberta alone has more CO2 storage capacity than Norway, Korea, India, and double the entire Middle East, ac- cording to the Global CCS Institute.
Since 2015, CCS operations in Alberta have safely stored roughly 13.5 million tonnes of CO2, or the equivalent emis - sions of more than three million cars. And now more CCS is on the way.
It also has a broad industrial presence
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