Canada's Largest Carbon Capture Project Breaks Ground in Alberta
A major carbon capture project has broken ground in Alberta, Canada, near the Village of Clive. The Origins Project is expected to be the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) site in Canada, with a capacity to store up to 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 annually.
This amount is equivalent to removing approximately 500,000 passenger vehicles from the road each year. The project will capture carbon dioxide from heavy industrial sources in Alberta's Industrial Heartland and transport it through a pipeline for permanent storage underground.
The Origins Project has received $10 million in grants from Natural Resources Canada's Energy Innovation Program and has been approved by the Alberta government as a carbon sequestration hub. Enhance Energy, the company behind the project, currently operates a facility that has safely stored more than nine million tonnes of CO2 since its inception.
The new Origins Hub is expected to begin commercial operations in January 2027 and could support industries such as cement, oil and gas, power generation, hydrogen, and petrochemicals along the Edmonton-Calgary corridor.