A carbon capture and sequestration facility is set to be constructed at the Glacier Gas Plant in Saddle Hills County, which is operated by Advantage Energy (Photo: Government of Alberta / YouTube)

By Shaun Penner

Net Zero

Carbon capture, sequestration technology being added to Saddle Hills County gas plant

Nov 18, 2021 | 9:46 AM

A gas plant just northwest of Grande Prairie will soon see a carbon capture and sequestration facility be added to it, thanks in part to funding from the provincial government.

The project will see Advantage Energy install a carbon capture and storage facility at its Glacier Gas Plant in Saddle Hills County. It is estimated the CCS facility will cut about 46,800 tonnes of emissions each year and improve the plant’s emissions intensity by 22 per cent.

The project was one of seven from around Alberta to split approximately $100 million from the province’s Industrial Energy Efficiency and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage program to help construct the CCS facility.

The funding is a stream from within the province’s Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction fund.

“The world needs more clean, Alberta energy and this announcement is another example of how the province’s producers are stepping up to deliver,” said Travis Toews, the MLA for Grande Prairie-Wapiti and Minister of Finance.

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“Over the past two years, we have seen continuous improvement and innovation in the production of clean energy and I am proud to see this investment continue in my constituency.”

Advantage Energy has tabbed Entropy Inc. to help construct the facility, with the first phase aimed to be in operation within the next five months.

“Using Entropy technology, industrial emitters in Alberta and around the world will have the opportunity to reduce emissions in stages to achieve targeted outcomes,” said Michael Belenkie, President and COO of Advantage Energy.

Other projects to receive funding include Tidewater Midstream building Alberta’s first fully-integrated blue hydrogen plant at the Brazeau River Complex, as well as Imperial, who plans to install five additional CCS units across the Kearl Oil Sands mine.

This is the second major clean energy announcement in the Grande Prairie area in as many weeks, as Northern Petrochemical announced plans to construct a $2.5 billion ammonia and methanol production facility in the Greenview Industrial Gateway just last week.

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