Alberta’s carbon capture leadership grows as stored CO₂ tops 18 million tonnes

Alberta’s carbon capture leadership grows as stored CO₂ tops 18 million tonnes

A wall of industrial-size fans sits on the outskirts of Innisfail, Alta. It may seem out of place in the rolling foothills southwest of Red Deer until you realize this bank of steel turbines serves a vital environmental purpose — pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. When the Tamarack direct air capture (DAC) facility began operating last fall, it became Canada’s largest DAC deployment, capable of capturing 2,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year — t…