Kansas City, Kan. (December 3, 2018) – The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB), a North American labor union that works extensively in the power generation industry, applauds the new Shand CCS Feasibility Study released by the International CCS Knowledge Centre November 28.

The study finds that the capital cost to retrofit the coal-fired Shand Power Station in Saskatchewan with the carbon capture and storage technology applied to SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Power Station unit 3 can be reduced by 67 percent (per ton of CO2 captured), with a capture rate of up to 97 percent. The Boundary Dam project, completed in 2014, marked the worlds’ first utility-scale use of post-combustion CCS on a coal-fired plant.

IBB International President Newton B. Jones stated: “This study shows that the pioneering work on SaskPower’s Boundary Dam CCS project provided vital lessons-learned that can now be applied to ‘second generation’ CCS projects. Accelerating the deployment of this and other CCS technologies is critical to mitigating climate change globally.”

“We’re very encouraged by the economic and technical findings of the study,” said Cory R. Channon, Assistant Director of Construction Sector Operations/Canada for the Boilermakers. “The CCS Knowledge Centre has long championed ground-breaking technology and proven that carbon capture can be an essential component in addressing global warming.”

The Boilermakers, in collaboration with 11 energy, environmental and industry experts, including the International CCS Knowledge Centre, recently produced a mini documentary exploring how CCS can help solve the three oft-at-odds issues of energy, environment and economy. The video examines how carbon capture and storage works and its positive implications for climate change, communities and jobs.