Ottawa announces funding for five Alberta carbon capture projects
The projects are being funded under the Energy Innovation Program, which put out a call for carbon capture, utilization and storage technology proposals.
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4 days ago
- Global News
Feds announce funding for 5 Alberta carbon capture projects
Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson has announced $21.5 million in federal funding for five Alberta projects that aim to lower the cost of capturing and storing carbon dioxide emissions. The projects are being funded under the Energy Innovation Program, which put out a call for carbon capture, utilization and storage technology proposals. Story continues below advertisement Bow Valley Carbon Cochrane Ltd., a partnership between Inter Pipeline Ltd. and Entropy Inc., is to receive $10 million to add equipment to a gas extraction plant northwest of Calgary that aims to capture emissions equivalent to taking more than 12,000 cars off the road a year. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Enbridge Inc. is to get $4 million and Enhance Energy Inc. is to receive $5 million for separate storage hubs in Central Alberta. The remainder of the funds are going toward a project looking to improve analysis technologies and another to test small-scale carbon capture from diesel engines. The announcement comes as uncertainty continues to cloud a $16.5-billion carbon capture project proposed by the Pathways Alliance, a consortium that includes six major oilsands producers. The companies have not made a final investment decision on the project, which would be one of the largest in the world if built, and federal and provincial support remains a question mark. Story continues below advertisement Pathways would capture carbon dioxide emissions from more than 20 oilsands facilities in northern Alberta and transport them 400 kilometres away by pipeline to a terminal in the Cold Lake area in eastern Alberta, where they would be stored in an underground hub to prevent them from entering the atmosphere. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has pitched a 'grand bargain' where that emissions-cutting project would go ahead in tandem with a new crude oil pipeline to the West Coast, which no company has thus far proposed to build. Ottawa is weighing which projects deemed in the national interest will be subject to a sped-up regulatory review under newly passed federal legislation.
Calgary Herald
4 days ago
- Calgary Herald
Natural Resources Canada announces over $21.5 million for Alberta carbon capture, storage projects
The federal government announced Friday more than $21.5 million in funding for five Alberta projects that aim to significantly reduce costs associated with capturing and storing carbon. 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. Article content 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… — Tim Hodgson (@timhodgsonmt) July 4, 2025 Article content Article content 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.
Global News
4 days ago
- Global News
Canada awaits private sector move on Pacific crude pipeline, minister says
Canada's federal government has not been presented with any private sector proposal to build a new crude pipeline to the Pacific coast, the country's Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said on Friday. Hodgson said in an interview in Calgary that the government is beginning to have 'concrete discussions' with various proponents of projects that could get the go-ahead under new legislation passed by Canada's Senate in late June. The legislation aims to fast-track approval for natural resource and infrastructure projects, part of a campaign promise by Prime Minister Mark Carney to transform Canada's economy in the face of U.S. tariffs. 3:02 Carney calls for energy partnerships to make Canada a global superpower Hodgson declined to provide specifics about the discussions under way, saying the government has done its part to give project proponents the clarity they need to invest. 'Now it's up to the private sector to make those decisions,' he said. Story continues below advertisement Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said in June the province is working to present the federal government with a proponent and route for a potential new crude pipeline from Alberta to the Port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia. Get weekly money news Get expert insights, Q&A on markets, housing, inflation, and personal finance information delivered to you every Saturday. Sign up for weekly money newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Smith said the pipeline would be built in tandem with the Pathways Alliance carbon capture and storage project. Canada is trying to diversify oil exports to be less reliant on the United States, but has struggled to find private companies willing to build a pipeline. 1:54 Alberta premier says she is in 'active' pipeline talks Hodgson confirmed Friday that if there is to be a pipeline to tidewater, it must be built together with the Pathways project, which has been proposed by a consortium of oil sands companies to reduce emissions from Canada's energy sector and which could cost between C$10 and C$20 billion to construct. Story continues below advertisement In recent years, major Canadian oil pipelines have faced years of regulatory delay and legal challenges, leading to cancellations for some projects and spiraling costs for others, like the Trans Mountain expansion. Canada's largest pipeline company, Enbridge, said in an emailed statement last week it would need to see significant provincial and federal legislative change — including changes to the country's industrial carbon policy — before considering proposing a new pipeline. Hodgson declined to say whether the government would consider changing or eliminating some of its existing environmental and regulatory policies in order to encourage a pipeline proposal. 1:54 Can Canada really build another oil pipeline?
