Talk:Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture & Storage Demonstration Project
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The Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture & Storage Demonstration Project he publicly-owned to convert Unit 3 at the existing coal-fired Boundary Dam Power Station to a 115-120 megawatts power station with Carbon Capture and Storage. It is proposed that the captured carbon dioxide used for enhanced oil recovery.[1]
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in southeastern Saskatchewan to tour the Boundary Dam power station where the federal and provincial governments are spending hundreds of millions of dollars working on a "clean coal" pilot project. Per capita, the province is the largest emitter in the country due to its reliance on burning coal to generate electricity, and has the second-highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita of any jurisdiction in the world — 72 tonnes per person annually — according to the Saskatchewan Environmental Society. The company estimates it would cost $1.2 billion to rebuild Boundary Dam 3 as a fully integrated carbon-capture and storage unit.[2]
Unit 3 is expected to come on-line in 2014, and SaskPower plans to sell 1 million tonnes of CO2 a year to for enhanced oil recovery.[3]
- ↑ SaskPower, "Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture & Storage Demonstration Project", SaskPower website, accessed July 2010.
- ↑ "Sask. delays 'clean coal' power" The Canadian Press, December 10, 2010.
- ↑ Richard Van Noorden, "Two plants to put ‘clean coal’ to test," Nature, April 29, 2014.
