Clean Coal Project Just Got A Little Bit Closer

By Norm Park of The Mercury

And then there were three.

The clean coal project at Boundary Dam's No. 3 unit took another major step toward becoming a reality last Friday afternoon when SaskPower announced that they now had a short list of three companies that were being invited to provide proposals to capture carbon dioxide at Boundary Dam Power Station.

Doug Daverne, manager of the SaskPower clean coal project, said the focus is now on upgrading Unit No. 3, a 100 megawatt power generating unit at Boundary, to modern standards while reducing greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, without causing an increase in power rates to the provincial customers.

The companies that have been selected to continue to a next stage of evaluation are Powerspan Corp. of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Cansolve Technologies Inc. of Montreal and Fluor Canada Ltd., with a Canadian headquarters in Calgary.

Daverne said SaskPower's original call for proposals for the large CO2 capture project went out to 15 companies and five ultimately submitted proposals before the end of 2008.

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