Regulatory application a first for Alberta
Shell Canada took its first regulatory step toward commercializing it carbon capture and storage project Quest, which will strip carbon dioxide from its Scotford oilsands upgrader near Edmonton. Photograph by: Ted Jacob, Calgary Herald
CALGARY Alberta could see its first commercial carbon capture and storage project as soon as 2015 if Shell Canadas application for its Quest project is approved by provincial regulators and the energy giants board.
Shell filed an application Tuesday on its $1.35-billion Quest joint venture with Chevron Canada and Marathon Oil Sands.
This is the first application that weve received for a commercial-scale CCS project, said Bob Curran, with Albertas Energy Resources Conservation Board, Tuesday.
If Quest proceeds, it will become one of a handful CCS projects around the world to inject carbon dioxide at a commercial level. The project is the poster child for the provincial governments quest to mitigate the effects of fossil fuel extraction, and is expected to capture up to 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year from Shells Scotford oilsands upgrader, north of Edmonton.
The controversial technology involves capturing carbon dioxide emissions, and transporting the gas via pipeline to deep underground storage in Shells case, an ancient saline aquifer. A successful project would remove the equivalent of 175,000 carbon-emitting cars from the road per year, but comes at a high cost, say both detractors and proponents.
Alberta is funding the project to the tune of $745 million over 15 years, out of its $2-billion carbon capture and storage fund, with Ottawa adding $120 million toward the project. Shell also negotiated a two-for-one carbon credit deal with the province, the only jurisdiction in North America to impose a carbon levy on industry.
The deal was essential for Shell to move forward on the project, expected to be commercial in 2015, and breach the provinces current $15 per tonne of carbon price versus the much higher cost of CCS, the global energy giant said.
Its not about profit, said John Abbott, Shells executive vice-president of heavy oil, in a recent interview. Its about breaking even.
The Shell project is one of four the province is funding to reduce greenhouse gases by 500 million tonnes a year by 2015
TransAlta Corp.s Project Pioneer received $436 million to capture one million tonnes annually from its coal-fired Keephills 3 power plant in Alberta.
Enhance Energy and NW Upgrading Albertas Carbon Trunk Line, a carbon capture and transportation project to supply gas for enhanced oil recovery, was awarded $495 million to transport 14 million tonnes annually. Swan Hills Synfuels was granted $285 million to capture 1.3 million tonnes annually from its in situ coal gasification power plant project.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
