Safety

Project Pioneer will use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology that is proven and safe

CCS is not new. On a smaller scale, it is used in other industrial processes and carbon dioxide (CO₂) has been injected into oil reserves to increase oil recovery for more than 30 years. Over the past 20 years, considerable research and development efforts have been devoted to the long-term, geological storage of CO₂.

The same geological formations that kept gases and fluids in place will also safely secure the CO₂ captured by Project Pioneer

Once injected, CO₂ will be trapped in tiny pores within the storage rock far below the earth’s surface and it will be separated from usable groundwater by thick, impermeable barriers of dense rock.

Geological storage projects have already stored millions of tonnes of CO₂ for many years, without detectable leakage

Projects in Saskatchewan and Norway have safely stored 15 megatonnes of CO₂ in depleted oil fields and deep, underwater, saline formations without leakage.

Transporting CO2 is nothing new

Just like natural gas is today, CO₂ can be transported long distances at low-cost. Extensive CO₂ pipeline networks have been safely in use in the United States for more than 25 years.