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Heartland Area Redwater Project (HARP)Nominators: Canada (lead) and United States Recognized by the CSLF at its London Ministerial meeting in October 2009, this is a combined pilot- and large-scale project that will, after initial pilot-scale operations, permanently sequester at least one million tonnes per year CO2 emissions from multiple large industrial sources near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The goal of the project is to demonstrate feasibility of CO2 storage in onshore consolidated carbonate rocks with characteristics representative of North America, and the project will also include long-term monitoring and public outreach components. The storage target is a very large carbonate reef with a storage capacity of several hundred million tonnes of CO2; this type of formation presents different challenges than other geologic storage options because of its mineralogy (which affects geochemical processes) and its geometry/structure and porosity/permeability (which affect the spread of injected CO2). Links to More Information |