Carbon dioxide (CO2) recovered from SaskPower's Clean Coal™ Project will be made available for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). EOR injects CO2 underground into depleted oil and gas reservoirs instead of releasing it to our atmosphere - helping to revive depleted production while storing a major greenhouse gas. In the event some CO2 is not used for EOR, it will be safely sequestered in deep saline aquifers, which extend across the southern reaches of the province.

Work conducted by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) - the IEA GHG Weyburn CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project - on the Weyburn field has demonstrated that EOR achieves permanent sequestration and that CO2 can have a significant economic value. The PTRC estimates that by using the Weyburn Project's methodology on a worldwide scale, one-third to one-half of CO2 emissions could be prevented from entering the atmosphere.

In addition to partnering with the PTRC, SaskPower also provides support to the International Test Centre for Carbon Dioxide Capture at the University of Regina. This organization is one of three major research centres in the world devoted to carbon capture. It is conducting a $5.2 million pre-commercial scale demonstration test at SaskPower's Boundary Dam Power Station.