This is what the Alberta Innovates, Emissions Reduction Alberta and Lafarge are recommending on their recent report about impacts to water if there is to be carbon capture in Alberta. “Foster a better province-wide understanding of Alberta’s groundwater resources and enhance data collection and accessibility to help project proponents meaningfully evaluate sustainable groundwater use as an alternative to surface water use. This should leverage existing efforts to understand and responsibly manage groundwater resources and could include the development of a centralized database to store and share groundwater data.
3. Support the further development and deployment of technologies to enable the reuse of excess recovered water from CCUS projects. This will reduce the water consumption of CCUS broadly and has the potential to beneficially offset the demands of other industries (e.g., hydrogen) within a given river basin.” Read the report Study of Water Impacts of CCUS Development in Alberta https://www.eralberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/WaterSMART_CCUS-Study_Report_2025.04.08.pdf
They give 3 scenarios for water use and availability and have a new GOA branch working with water use and circulation it would seem the water act is being amended by the EPA or Environmental Protected Areas with the survey made public until June 30. More details on the website here https://www.alberta.ca/water-availability-engagement
They have chosen Milk River, Battle River and South Saskatchewan to remove the 10% holdbacks and these are in basins that are currently available as a water basin of the 11
Hay
Peace/Slave
Athabasca
Beaver
North Saskatchewan
Battle
Red Deer
Bow
Oldman
South Saskatchewan
Milk.
There are proposed CCUS projects in all of these basins depending on water availability. This is mainly a reminder that water is becoming a commodity more so when the GoA and their branches have been sharing with industry partners for these water resources.
Please see the attached information regarding the EPA on water availability since there was a lot of discussion on the recent water act the mediators for EPA might not have shared that there are changes to be included in the water act once a survey has been made available it would also be a concern during the mediation process if changes to water licences are enacted in the future
Here is a report which was just published by Alberta Innovates a few weeks ago.
The title is: Study of Water Impacts of CCUS Development in Alberta. It paints a disturbing picture of the massive volume of water potentially needed for the proposed Pathways Alliance CCUS development. All the water would be sourced from the Athabasca River Watershed. I don't think the northern communities have been honestly informed about the massive water requirements of this CCUS proposal.
This is what the Alberta Innovates, Emissions Reduction Alberta and Lafarge are recommending on their recent report about impacts to water if there is to be carbon capture in Alberta. “Foster a better province-wide understanding of Alberta’s groundwater resources and enhance data collection and accessibility to help project proponents meaningfully evaluate sustainable groundwater use as an alternative to surface water use. This should leverage existing efforts to understand and responsibly manage groundwater resources and could include the development of a centralized database to store and share groundwater data.
3. Support the further development and deployment of technologies to enable the reuse of excess recovered water from CCUS projects. This will reduce the water consumption of CCUS broadly and has the potential to beneficially offset the demands of other industries (e.g., hydrogen) within a given river basin.” Read the report Study of Water Impacts of CCUS Development in Alberta https://www.eralberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/WaterSMART_CCUS-Study_Report_2025.04.08.pdf
They give 3 scenarios for water use and availability and have a new GOA branch working with water use and circulation it would seem the water act is being amended by the EPA or Environmental Protected Areas with the survey made public until June 30. More details on the website here https://www.alberta.ca/water-availability-engagement
They have chosen Milk River, Battle River and South Saskatchewan to remove the 10% holdbacks and these are in basins that are currently available as a water basin of the 11
Hay
Peace/Slave
Athabasca
Beaver
North Saskatchewan
Battle
Red Deer
Bow
Oldman
South Saskatchewan
Milk.
There are proposed CCUS projects in all of these basins depending on water availability. This is mainly a reminder that water is becoming a commodity more so when the GoA and their branches have been sharing with industry partners for these water resources.
Thanks for sharing and more details on the link here https://edmontoncouncilofcanadians.ca/2025/05/20/prairie-water-sovereignty-scarcity-and-conservation/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4-KhnspKu-kJyXlU04xaSC84AT1uIk9Z8Z0JvaDPvunN9F3YXVRksVOW_CAA_aem_qpg2Wv3hL30Gb__ZZwB7lg#like-6834
Please see the invite to our Prairie Water Webinar on Wednesday, June 4 at 7 pm you can register on the link below. https://canadians.org/event/prairie-water-sovereignty-scarcity-and-conservation/
I hope that you are able to attend.
Please see the attached information regarding the EPA on water availability since there was a lot of discussion on the recent water act the mediators for EPA might not have shared that there are changes to be included in the water act once a survey has been made available it would also be a concern during the mediation process if changes to water licences are enacted in the future
The phase one engagement feedback also included ideas to improve physical water availability. https://your.alberta.ca/water-availability?tool=qanda#tool_tab
More details on the website here https://www.alberta.ca/water-availability-engagement
Here is a report which was just published by Alberta Innovates a few weeks ago.
The title is: Study of Water Impacts of CCUS Development in Alberta. It paints a disturbing picture of the massive volume of water potentially needed for the proposed Pathways Alliance CCUS development. All the water would be sourced from the Athabasca River Watershed. I don't think the northern communities have been honestly informed about the massive water requirements of this CCUS proposal.