Is QEC among them with their Cleantech???



Minister Wilkinson Announces up to $800 Million in Project Funding to Advance Canada's Clean Fuels Sector Français

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Natural Resources Canada 

Nov 14, 2022, 14:12 ET


https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/minister-wilkinson-announces-up-to-800-million-in-project-funding-to-advance-canada-s-clean-fuels-sector-857963857.html


CLEAN FUEL PROJECTS FUNDED

Nov 14, 2022

Clean or low-carbon hydrogen can be produced either through electrolysis (using water and electricity) or from natural gas. The CO2 from the latter can be captured and stored to make "blue" hydrogen. But as Wilkinson noted, for carbon capture, geological sequestration capacity is needed.

Dedicated CO2 pipelines are also needed. Alberta has a dedicated CO2 pipeline -- the Alberta Carbon Trunk line -- that is already in use. B.C. has geological sequestration capacity in old natural gas wells, but has no dedicated carbon pipeline.

"Regionally, each of our provinces and territories has a unique mix of their own natural resources, and so the opportunities that are available to them are going to be different across the country," Wilkinson said. "What will be a big opportunity in Alberta will be very different in terms of the opportunities that present themselves in Nova Scotia."

Wilkinson noted there is another way to produce hydrogen from natural gas, without requiring carbon capture and storage, and named a B.C. company that has developed such a process: Ekona Power, which uses methane pyrolisis to produce both hydrogen and solid carbon from natural gas.

"The issue right now is we produce it (hydrogen) from natural gas and we don't capture the CO2," Wilkinson noted. "So the first step is actually putting in place systems where we actually are utilizing it for existing applications where we're actually either capturing the CO2, or doing what companies like Ekona are trying to do, which is drop the carbon out as a solid, so that you can actually use hydrogen without the the carbon emissions that cause climate change."

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https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-396202-3-.htm