Now to starting selling and building globally. Damn Conservatives and their world leading SK Crown owned tech.
SaskPower officially opened the world’s first commercial-scale, coal-fired power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage technology on Thursday, with expectations the facility will generate global opportunities for Saskatchewan’s state-owned utility.
After Alberta Premier Jim Prentice disparaged carbon capture and storage (CCS) this summer as a “science experiment,” Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said the $1.4-billion Boundary Dam project represents a major milestone in the quest for “environmentally sustainable coal power.”
The refurbishment includes retooling the 110-megawatt coal-fired plant, adding solvent-based processors to strip away carbon dioxide, and then piping the CO2 to a nearby oil field where Cenovus Energy Inc. will use the gas in its enhanced-oil-recovery project. Most of the CO2 is expected to remain trapped in the oil-bearing structures.
“This project is another Saskatchewan first,” Mr. Wall said in a release. “The rest of the world is very interested to learn how they, too, can produce environmentally sustainable coal power.”
Cenovus has for years been using CO2 piped up from North Dakota to boost production at its aging oil field, and scientists from around the world have studied that project to determine whether the gas would indeed remain sequestered. Now, SaskPower is pioneering the use of a solvent-based capture process at an operating coal plant in order to demonstrate its effectiveness. The Boundary Dam plant is expected to capture one muillion tonnes of CO2 annually – the equivalent of emissions from 250,000 cars.
The ceremony in Estevan on Thursday was attended by 250 people – including government officials, scientists and industry representatives – from 20 countries But the technology remains highly controversial and hugely expensive. Ottawa provided $240-million in subsidies for the plant, and has allocated $580-million for four CCS projects. Many environmentalists scorn CCS as the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig – a high-subsidy effort to justify the continued use of fossil fuel energy while the world should be turning to renewables.
SaskPower unveils world’s first carbon capture coal plant - The Globe and Mail
SaskPower officially opened the world’s first commercial-scale, coal-fired power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage technology on Thursday, with expectations the facility will generate global opportunities for Saskatchewan’s state-owned utility.
After Alberta Premier Jim Prentice disparaged carbon capture and storage (CCS) this summer as a “science experiment,” Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said the $1.4-billion Boundary Dam project represents a major milestone in the quest for “environmentally sustainable coal power.”
The refurbishment includes retooling the 110-megawatt coal-fired plant, adding solvent-based processors to strip away carbon dioxide, and then piping the CO2 to a nearby oil field where Cenovus Energy Inc. will use the gas in its enhanced-oil-recovery project. Most of the CO2 is expected to remain trapped in the oil-bearing structures.
“This project is another Saskatchewan first,” Mr. Wall said in a release. “The rest of the world is very interested to learn how they, too, can produce environmentally sustainable coal power.”
Cenovus has for years been using CO2 piped up from North Dakota to boost production at its aging oil field, and scientists from around the world have studied that project to determine whether the gas would indeed remain sequestered. Now, SaskPower is pioneering the use of a solvent-based capture process at an operating coal plant in order to demonstrate its effectiveness. The Boundary Dam plant is expected to capture one muillion tonnes of CO2 annually – the equivalent of emissions from 250,000 cars.
The ceremony in Estevan on Thursday was attended by 250 people – including government officials, scientists and industry representatives – from 20 countries But the technology remains highly controversial and hugely expensive. Ottawa provided $240-million in subsidies for the plant, and has allocated $580-million for four CCS projects. Many environmentalists scorn CCS as the equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig – a high-subsidy effort to justify the continued use of fossil fuel energy while the world should be turning to renewables.
SaskPower unveils world’s first carbon capture coal plant - The Globe and Mail