October 2, 2014
Estevan, Saskatchewan
Natural Resources Canada
The Honourable Greg Rickford, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, today celebrated the opening of the carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at the Boundary Dam in Estevan, Saskatchewan, the world’s first post-combustion carbon capture project in a coal-fired power plant.
The Government of Canada has invested $240 million from Budget 2008 toward SaskPower’s $1.4 billion project to integrate CCS at its existing Boundary Dam coal-fired power plant. Since 2008, the Government has also invested over $580 million in the research, development and demonstration of CCS technologies through Natural Resources Canada’s ecoEnergy Technology Initiative (ecoETI), the Clean Energy Fund (CEF), ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative (ecoEII) and the Program for Energy Research and Development (PERD).
The Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration project has transformed Unit 3 at the Boundary Dam power station into a reliable, long-term producer of clean electricity by including CCS technology in its operation. The project will collect carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant and seal them deep underground, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by capturing up to one million tonnes of CO2 per year.
Greg Rickford
Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources
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