Capital Power Corporation, Enbridge Inc.
and TransAlta Corporation have
decided to cancel Project Pioneer, a carbon
capture and storage project that was proposed for Capital Power and
TranAlta's jointly-owned Keephills 3 coal-fired power
plant located approximately 70 kilometers west of Edmonton,
Alberta.
The project was intended to include: a carbon capture facility
that would have removed CO2 from a portion of the Keephills 3 flue
gas, a pipeline to transport CO2 to a sequestration site
approximately 6 kilometers from the power plant, and a second
pipeline to transport CO2 to an existing oil production facility in
the Pembina oil field, approximately 75 kilometers from the
plant. CO2 from the second pipeline, which would have carried
the majority of the captured gas, was to have been used for
enhanced oil recovery. Project Pioneer was intended to
demonstrate the commercial scale-viability of carbon capture and
storage technology.
