BC developing carbon management blueprint
The British Columbia Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE) said October 4 it was leading a coalition of changemakers in the carbon value chain to develop the BC Carbon Management Blueprint, aimed at guiding the scale-up of carbon management projects across Canada’s west coast province.
CICE has partnered with consultant Deloitte to produce the blueprint and is working in collaboration with the province’s ministry of environment and climate change strategy to steer the project. The blueprint is expected to be publicly available later this year.
“We know the world cannot reach net zero without actively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,” CICE executive director Ged McLean said. “BC companies and technologies already lead the world with carbon management technology developers in direct air capture, point source capture and mineralisation – BC should be the world leader in carbon removal and storage, and we intend this blueprint to be the first step towards helping BC realise this potential.”
The blueprint will highlight solutions across the carbon management value chain, including carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), negative emission technologies and natural climate solutions. It will also define key carbon management solution areas, assess BC’s techno-economic and regulatory place in global carbon management and conclude with a three-to-five-year actionable roadmap to implement carbon management solutions in the province.
“Our CleanBC plan supports a wide range of investments and projects that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, stimulate economic activity, and promote partnerships with industry,” said Bruce Ralston, minister of energy, mines and low carbon innovation. “The Carbon Management Blueprint helps us further target our actions to advance our CleanBC goals, grow our clean energy sector, and keep our economy strong.”
The guiding coalition includes John Sanden, in business development at BC-based direct air capture developer Carbon Engineering; Jason Switzer, director of carbontech at Carbon Management Canada; Santiago Arribas Picon, manager of business development at Enbridge; Alex Grzybowski and Candice Wilson from the First Nation Climate Initiative; Tim Shaw, senior energy transition advisor at NorthRiver Midstream; Tim Wiwchar, general manager, Canada CCS at Shell; Kurtis Barrett, director of sustainability at Petronas Canada; Brett Henkel and Roxane Roy from CCS developer Svante; Lindsay Mackay, vice president, non-regulated commercial & business development, Canada gas, at TC Energy; Scott Volk, technology and innovation lead at Tourmaline Oil; and Scott MacDougall, senior advisor at Pembina Institute.
“British Columbia is at a critical juncture as it develops its industrial policy to meet the province’s 2030 reduction target for the oil and gas sector, along with long-term pathways for other heavy industries,” MacDougall said. “Technologies such as carbon capture and storage, direct air capture, and forest carbon storage will play an important role in meeting the province’s 2030 and 2050 targets.”