Enterprise Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan offers well-grounded eco-solutions serving industries built on natural resources.

Our obligation to manage Saskatchewan's natural resources is both a responsibility and an opportunity. Eco-technologies, products and services are well established and adding wealth and value to the province's resource-based economy. For example, the provincial Crown corporation SaskPower is developing one of the first and largest clean coal power stations in the world.

Saskatchewan is addressing climate change by developing carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, the world's largest monitored CO₂ capture and storage project is located in southeastern Saskatchewan. This project, managed by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) in Regina, represents a strong potential to address climate change. Over its lifetime, PTRC's project will store enough CO₂ to take the equivalent of 8 million cars off the road for a year.

The United Nations estimates that carbon dioxide capture technology could provide almost half of all emission reductions necessary to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions in the world over this century.