December 22, 2025
RED FM News Desk
The chief executive of a U.S.-based carbon capture startup says Alberta offers an ideal mix of policy support, industry need and technical opportunity to help scale emissions-reducing technology, as the company moves ahead with a project in the province’s oilsands.
Cameron Halliday, co-founder of Cambridge, Mass.-based Mantel Capture, says Alberta stands out as a place where carbon capture could move from demonstration projects to widespread commercial use.
“Alberta specifically is a really great confluence of all the right factors coming together to give Canada a chance to lead in this ecosystem,” Halliday said. “You’ve got the policy support. You’ve got the carrot and the stick.”
Mantel announced last week it has begun an early engineering and design study for a commercial-scale carbon capture project in the oilsands. While the company has not named its partner, it says the project involves a producer that uses steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) to extract bitumen from deep underground.
The proposed system is designed to capture about 60,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. Unlike many carbon capture projects that require large amounts of additional energy, Mantel’s technology is designed to make use of the energy it generates. The system produces roughly 150,000 tonnes of high-pressure steam per year, which can be redirected into the oilsands operation rather than wasted.
Mantel has not disclosed the project’s cost, but it is receiving support from Alberta Innovates, the province’s innovation-focused Crown corporation.
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