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A northwest Edmonton cement plant will be the first in North America to test whether carbon capture and storage can meaningfully reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

Environment Minister Jason Nixon, who is banking on technology being Alberta’s primary solution to rising greenhouse gas emissions, announced Emissions Reduction Alberta will contribute $1.4 million to a $3-million feasibility study at the Lehigh Cement plant.

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“This project is good for the environment and good for the economy,” Nixon said, sporting a blue hard hat and yellow vest inside one of the plant’s buildings on Thursday. “Our government has said from the beginning that technology and innovation are the key pathways for meaningful action on climate change and managing emissions.”

Although Emissions Reduction Alberta’s current funding would have been collected under the former NDP government’s Climate Leadership Program, Nixon said the cement plant experiment is the kind of project that will be funded by the United Conservative Party’s new industrial carbon tax.