Fort St. John, BC: BC has partnered with Spectra Energy on a project to remove carbon emissions at the province’s heaviest-emitting industrial facility—the Fort Nelson Gas Plant.
The process is called carbon sequestration and it’s done in power plants, oil refineries or even from the air.
But Energy Minister Richard Neufeld said it’s not yet known if the carbon emissions can be stored in saline aquifers in the Fort Nelson area.
Saline aquifers are underground layers of rock, sediment or soil that yield water, and Neufeld said experts are conducting geological work to confirm their presence.
About 40 small-scale carbon and acid-gas sequestration projects have been operating at various natural gas facilities in Western Canada since the early 1990s.
Neufeld said the latest project in Fort Nelson could lead to better carbon capture and sequestration technology and techniques.
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