Company/Alliance: SaskPower and TransCanada Energy
Location: Proposed: Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan, Canada
Feedstock: Coal and Petcoke (imported from Alberta)
Size: 300 MW, up to 4.7 million tonnes of CO2 per year captured and 2.3 million tonnes of CO2 avoided
Capture Technology: Pre-combustion
CO2 Fate: Sequestration and/or EOR
Timing: Prefeasibility study (2007)
Motivation/Economics: Saskatchewan is conducting a $20 million study assessing this $3 billion proposal for a polygeneration facility without support from the federal government.
Comments: The synthetic gas product is being considered for use at the Mosaic Potash Mine, the Saskferco fertilizer plant, both at Belle Plaine, for use in a gas turbine for SaskPower, or turned into hydrogen for industrial processes. The captured CO2 is being considered for EOR at the already functioning EOR site in Weyburn, Canada
Project Link: SaskPower Clean Coal Project [PDF] (February 2006)
Other Sources and Press Release:
Standing Committee on Crown and Central Agencies: Hansard Verbatim Report (January 2007)
FED - Clean air awaits Ottawa cash: Projects across the country are on hold until Tories make a decision (November 2006)
