A slew of informational sessions is coming to the Lakeland region.
The event will be hosted by the Oil Sands Alliance and will focus on the Pathways Project.
The project is a large-scale post-combustion carbon capture and storage initiative proposed by the alliance, which is a group representing most of Canada’s oil sands producers. A component of the proposal is a 650-kilometre compressed CO₂ pipeline network that would gather carbon dioxide emissions from different oil sands sites across northeastern Alberta, including Fort McMurray, Christina Lake and Cold Lake.
The captured CO₂ would then be moved to a central storage hub in the Cold Lake region and permanently injected 1,000 to 2,000 metres underground into the Basal Ca,brian Sandstone formation, and sealed by impermeable cap rock layers.
Officials said the project aims to capture and store about six-million net tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year by 2035. A broader framework targets up to 16-million tonnes per year by 2045.
Dates and locations of the information sessions are as follows:
- Nov. 5 in Bonnyville at the GENMEC ACL Hall, C2 Centre
- Nov. 24 in St. Paul at the All Saints Ukrainian Cultural Centre
- Dec. 2 in Cold Lake at the Lakeland Inn
Additionally, a session is planned for Fort McMurray on Nov.18 in the Miskanaw Ballroom at MacDonald Island Park.
Officials said the goal of the sessions is to provide more information about the Pathways Project to residents and allow community members to speak with experts and ask questions related to the project.
The Oil Sands Alliance said all sessions will combine a structured morning program for invited municipal council members, held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with an informal open house for the broader community, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the same day.
More on the Pathways Project is also available on the Oil Sands Alliance website.
