GHG Daily
2/8/2016
SaskPower, developer of the Boundary Dam Unit 3 Carbon capture and storage project in Saskatchewan, Canada, on Friday announced that it will team up with mining giant BHP Billiton to develop a CCS knowledge center at the Innovation Place Research Park in Regina, Saskatchewan. “SaskPower’s partnership with BHP Billiton will allow us to share the benefits of CCS with the world while continuing to reduce carbon emissions here at home,” Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said in a SaskPower press release.
According to the Feb. 5 release, BHP Billiton will contribute $20 million to the center over five years while SaskPower will contribute its CCS expertise. The center’s mission is to help accelerate the development and application of CCS. SaskPower employees will staff the center.
“We are very pleased to have BHP Billiton as a partner in this centre,” SaskPower President and CEO Mike Marsh said in the release. “Talks between our two companies began at a United Nations climate change conference in Peru in late 2014. Just over one year later, we are celebrating a ground-breaking knowledge centre that will offer the world a vehicle to advance the technology and commercial viability of CCS.”
