Learn how capturing carbon dioxide can create more power, reduce dependence on fossil fuels and provides safe storage for CO₂ underground.

Narrator:
The power to run our world comes at a price to the environment. Reducing the output of carbon dioxide and other emissions from power generation and industrial sectors is a key goal of the Government of Canada's clean energy strategy. One likely solution is cutting edge research and development into capturing CO₂ and toxic particulates such as nitrogen oxide and mercury.

John Marrone, Director - CanmetEnergy - Natural Resources Canada:
"In that process, we use, we react, typically coal under pressure with steam, to produce a relatively clean synthetic fuel rich in hydrogen and carbon monoxide. That relatively clean stream is then burnt to generate electricity and the heat from that process is then recycled to form steam into the first process."

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Complementing these capture strategies is a massive research project to store carbon dioxide underground. Located near the town of Weyburn in Canada's prairie heartland of Saskatchewan, scientists are injecting 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into an old oil reservoir. Some of the CO₂ is pushing oil to the surface– some of it is stored underground forever. It's good for the environment in that greenhouse gas does not escape into the air and contribute to global warming.

The Weyburn monitoring and storage project is a joint venture of the Government of Canada, the International Energy Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. Early results indicate great success.

Malcolm Wilson, Director - Project Development, Petroleum Technology Research Centre:
"What we have here is a made in Canada solution to a problem that's affecting people regardless of where they are in the world. We can show quite categorically here that it's safe to store carbon dioxide under the ground - that we can make a difference to climate change."

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To learn more about C0₂ Capture and storage go to nrcan.gc.ca-slash-cleantech.

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