Hard to Abate Club Workshop

NRCan and the University of Waterloo hosted a periodic workshop for heavy industry in Southern Ontario including the steel, cement, gas fired power, oil refining and petrochemical sectors. These are known as the hard-to-abate industries with respect to abatement of CO2 emissions. The ‘Hard-to-Abate Club’ will provide (i) expert presentations on topics involving carbon capture, utilization and storage, electricity grids, transmission pipelines and other topics that these industries find important, and (ii) networking to develop industrial synergies to allow them to meet the 2030 GHG goals of the Federal Government and the 2050 Net Zero goal. Such a forum should ultimately led to improved environmental and economic performance by these hard-to-abate industries that were threatened with paying high carbon taxes and being penalized by border adjustment tariffs. The objectives of the workshop were to listen to experts on the technologies of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) and to encourage networking among Hard-to-Abate industries in Southwestern Ontario.