Carbon-capture project on hold at Edmonton cement plant

Heidelberg Materials delays Edmonton CCS project

Heidelberg Materials has delayed its planned full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at its Edmonton cement plant in Alberta, Canada, amid u...

Carbon-capture project on hold at Edmonton cement plant

Diminished interest in incentivizing reductions in carbon dioxide emissions has delayed an Edmonton project once touted to be the world's first cement plant with full-scale carbon capture and storage.In 2023, Heidelberg Materials signed a partnership with the federal government to support a $1.36-billion project to bring a full-scale carbon capture, utilization, and storage system to its cement plant in northwest Edmonton. The company said then …