Natural Resources Canada announces over $21.5 million for Alberta carbon capture, storage projects
The projects are being funded through Natural Resource Canada's Energy Innovation Program, which had put out a call for proposals for next-generation carbon capture, storage and utilization technologies.
'We are taking action to make Canada a conventional and clean energy superpower — getting good products to market, cutting emissions, creating jobs and delivering the technologies that will power our economy for decades to come,' said Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson in a Friday statement.
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Six weeks after delivering my first speech as Canada's new Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, I'm back in Alberta to announce $21.5 million in federal funding for five carbon capture projects across the province.
These investments will:
✅ Lower emissions across our… pic.twitter.com/0Nd2bUrXMC
— Tim Hodgson (@timhodgsonmt) July 4, 2025
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Almost half of the funding — $10 million — is going to a project which involves the design and installation of a carbon dioxide compression and conditioning system, transportation pipeline and sequestration well. The Bow Valley Carbon Cochrane Limited Partnership, a collaboration between Inter Pipeline Ltd. and Entropy Inc., is behind the project.
'Together, these components will aim to capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year of emissions, equivalent to taking approximately 12,255 cars off the road annually, from the Interpipeline Cochrane Natural Gas Extraction Plant,' said a Friday Natural Resources Canada release.
Enbridge is getting $4 million towards a storage hub in central Alberta, and Enhance Energy Inc. is receiving $5 million in support of another central Alberta storage hub.
Another project, by OCCAM's Technologies Inc., is receiving $2 million in federal funding to look into capturing carbon from diesel engines.
'This approach has the potential to develop economically viable capture processes for distributed emission sources in hard-to-decarbonize industries such as locomotive rail transport, marine shipping and heavy-duty trucking,' said Natural Resources Canada.
And an OptiSeis Solutions Ltd. project getting $538,000 in funding will aim to improve new and existing subsurface analysis technologies.
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