Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) and Carbon Alpha have announced that their North Star project has successfully passed Puro.earth‘s preliminary assessment and is now listed as a future facility on the platform, thus becoming the first carbon removal project in Canada to achieve this milestone.
The listing, which can be viewed here, marks an important advancement for Carbon Alpha’s bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project.
The preliminary assessment involved a detailed review of the North Star project’s design, focusing on technical aspects, environmental safeguards, community benefits, biomass sustainability, and lifecycle assessment.
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The successful completion of the assessment highlights North Star’s compliance with the Puro Standard and its Geological Stored Carbon methodology.
Joseph Kochanski, Head of Operations for Puro.earth Americas, praised the collaboration between Carbon Alpha and MLTC, which aims to support wildfire mitigation in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan through carbon dioxide removal (CDR).
Kochanski expressed excitement about the project’s progress, commending Carbon Alpha for successfully completing the preliminary assessment, in anticipation of the next steps in deployment of the facility.
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