Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says the province has game-changing carbon capture technology and he’s trying to sell the idea to the world.
Wall spoke Tuesday at an annual carbon capture conference in Pittsburgh. The premier says there was “very keen interest” from companies and other governments in a carbon capture project at the Boundary Dam power station near Estevan. The Saskatchewan government wants to commercialize the technology being tested at the plant.
Wall says the project will be tried out this fall and will “go live” as a generating facility next year. Carbon capture involves gathering carbon dioxide from power plants and injecting it deep into porous rock formations so it doesn’t add to greenhouse gas emissions. The plan at Boundary Dam is to capture up to 90 per cent of CO2 emissions. Most of the CO2 will be sold to oil and gas companies that use it to push more oil out of the ground in what’s called enhanced oil recovery.