carbon capture

Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says he expects between 20 and 25 commercial-scale carbon capture and storage projects to break ground in Canada within the next decade. Wilkinson made the comments in an interview in Calgary, one week after Shell Canada announced it will go ahead with its Polaris carbon capture project in Alberta. […]

A signature carbon capture and storage project in Saskatchewan continues to miss emissions reduction goals, raising questions about the cost-effectiveness of the technology, says a report. “We don’t think carbon capture works as well as industry and promoters claim,” said David Schissel, an analyst who wrote the report for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, […]

The Saskatchewan government is to spend up to $765,000 on an event space at a global climate conference in Dubai. An order made public this week includes the price tag for the pavilion at the COP28 conference later this month in the United Arab Emirates. The cost, which doesn’t include travel, appears to be the […]

By betting it can solve its emissions problem with carbon capture and storage, Canada’s oil and gas industry risks saddling itself with expensive stranded assets, a new report argues. The report, released Thursday by the International Institute for Sustainable Development — a Winnipeg-based think-tank that focuses on climate and sustainable resource development — concludes carbon […]

The Regina Airport Authority (RAA) has teamed up with SaskEnergy to pilot new technology in the province that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the airport by 20 per cent. The organizations partnered to install a CarbinX small-scale carbon-capture device manufactured by Calgary-based CleanO2 in the mechanical room of YQR’s Air Terminal Building. The device […]

Federated Co-operatives Limited is committing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. On Thursday, CEO Scott Banda announced that FCL is committing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent below 2015 levels by the year 2030 and FCL is also aspiring to achieve net zero by the year 2050. Co-op also announced that […]

There will soon be a change at the top of Saskpower. Mike Marsh announced he will be stepping down as President and CEO after 7 years at the position. Marsh has been with SaskPower for 30 years. He originally started with SaskPower as plant engineer at Boundary Dam in Estevan in 1991. Several infrastructure projects […]

The Mayor of Estevan is inviting Elon Musk to come tour the city’s Carbon Capture Facility (CCS). The invitation comes after the Tesla CEO tweeted that he would be awarding $100 million to communities with the best technology. Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, […]