Ottawa announces funding for 5 Alberta carbon capture projects

Lauren Krugel · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 04, 2025 1:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson has announced $21.5 cardinal successful national backing for 5 Alberta projects that purpose to little the outgo of capturing and storing c dioxide emissions.

The projects are being funded nether the Energy Innovation Program, which enactment retired a telephone for c capture, utilization and retention exertion proposals.

Bow Valley Carbon Cochrane Ltd., a concern betwixt Inter Pipeline Ltd. and Entropy Inc., is to person $10 cardinal to adhd instrumentality to a state extraction works northwest of Calgary that aims to seizure emissions equivalent to taking much than 12,000 cars disconnected the roadworthy a year.

Enbridge Inc. is to get $4 cardinal and Enhance Energy Inc. is to person $5 cardinal for abstracted retention hubs successful Central Alberta.

The remainder of the funds are going toward a task looking to amended investigation technologies and different to trial small-scale c seizure from diesel engines.

The announcement comes arsenic uncertainty continues to unreality a $16.5-billion c seizure task projected by the Pathways Alliance, a consortium that includes six large oilsands producers.

The companies person not made a last concern determination connected the project, which would beryllium 1 of the largest successful the satellite if built, and national and provincial enactment remains a question mark.

Pathways would seizure c dioxide emissions from much than 20 oilsands facilities successful bluish Alberta and transport them 400 kilometres distant by pipeline to a terminal successful the Cold Lake country successful eastbound Alberta, wherever they would beryllium stored successful an underground hub to forestall them from entering the atmosphere.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has pitched a "grand bargain" wherever that emissions-cutting task would spell up successful tandem with a caller crude lipid pipeline to the West Coast, which nary institution has frankincense acold projected to build.

Ottawa is weighing which projects deemed successful the nationalist involvement volition beryllium taxable to a sped-up regulatory reappraisal nether recently passed national legislation.