Sergeant at Arms David Bromwich opened this week’s meeting with the quotation, “I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.” Often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, its likely author is the American poet Muriel Strode. President Rick Erven welcomed everyone to the meeting and called it to order.
Michael Pierson and Manon Mitchell led the singing of O Canada, while Trevor Axworthy’s invocation reflected on peacebuilding and conflict resolution.
President Rick thanked volunteers Deana Haley, Eugene Wasylchuk and Murray Young.
Jennifer Lavier Jankovic welcomed visiting Rotarian Steve Ricard from the Rotary Club of Calgary West and welcomed several non-Rotarian guests. She also acknowledged the six club members who celebrated birthdays this week.
Did you know that the Rotary Peace Fellowship is one of Rotary International’s most prestigious programs? Applications are now open for the 2021-2022 Rotary Peace Fellows. Candidates have until May 31 to the district, and districts must submit endorsed applications to the Rotary Foundation by July 1.
The Rotary Peace Fellow program began in 2002 and develops leaders with work experience in peace and conflict resolution. Each year the Rotary Foundation awards 50 fellowships for master’s degrees and 80 for certificates to study at one of the Rotary Peace Centres, located in England, Thailand, the United States, Japan, Australia and Sweden.
The total average funding is 75,000 USD for master’s degree fellowships and 11,000 USD for certificate fellowships. The peace centre program has a vision of sustainable peace: encompassing a network of leaders dedicated to preventing and resolving conflicts across the global community.
Abdi Ahmed is a Canadian peace fellow who was born in Somalia, and he and his family fled conflict and settled in Kenya. He moved to Canada as part of a national resettlement program as a young adult. While studying International Development at the University of Manitoba, Mr. Ahmed volunteered with refugee children who were struggling in school. After graduation, he began working with the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba. He discovered that refugees coming to Winnipeg often live in areas predominantly inhabited by indigenous people, and there is tension between the newcomers and the indigenous people. Abdi completed his Peace fellowship in Queensland, Australia, in 2012, developing a course to teach refugee high school students about indigenous life and heritage to smooth relations between the two groups.
Announcements:
Catherine Evamy introduced our newest Paul Harris Fellow, Julie Hamilton. Following the loss of her son Tim in a workplace accident, Ms. Hamilton has become a workplace safety advocate and has shared her story “Missing Tim” more than 300 times. Ms. Hamilton received the Alberta Order of Excellence for her efforts in turning personal tragedy into a selfless commitment to making a difference as an inspiring advocate for workplace safety.
Bring your family and friends to our annual Ski and Stroll on March 14th. The $30.00 price for bus transportation includes hot chocolate and treats, but does not include lift tickets. Our 7:15 am departure will be from the Canadian Tire store at Richmond Road and Sarcee Trail, and the bus will return by 7:00 pm.
Bob Taylor introduced Kevin Jabusch, President and CEO of Enhance Energy Inc. Mr. Jabusch's presentation described the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL Project), the world's most significant integrated carbon capture, storage, transportation and utilization project. The project takes carbon dioxide from Alberta's upgrading, refining, power generation and petrochemical operations for use in enhanced oil recovery projects. The project builds on the world's highest capacity carbon dioxide pipeline, which runs from Alberta's Industrial Heartland to a storage facility located east of Lacombe. The total investment in the project to the end of 2019 exceeds one billion dollars.
Enhance Energy purchases carbon dioxide from the North West Redwater Partnership's Sturgeon Refinery, fertilizer company Nutrien, and transfers it to Wolf Midstream for compression and entry into the pipeline system. Enhance Energy receives the carbon dioxide at the ACTL's Clive terminus and stores it in a mature, well-understood reservoir for future EOR use. Sequestering and reusing this carbon dioxide equates to the removal of 325,000 automobiles from the road.
Mr. Jabusch described how carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been used for decades in many industrial and power applications and will be part of the world's energy future. However, it is not yet profitable because current carbon pricing does not justify large-scale CCS. Despite this, there is a great deal of room for capture costs to decrease over time while carbon prices rise. As well, EOR generates revenue that can help close the revenue gap. Currently, there are 136 successful carbon dioxide EOR projects in the United States, while there are three in Alberta and one in Saskatchewan. However, the American EOR projects are not carbon reduction projects as they use natural carbon dioxide from producing formations to enhance oil recovery, which circulates in a closed-loop.
Using carbon capture and sequestration to produce oil results in a carbon-neutral product when measured "wells to wheels" as half a ton of sequestered carbon goes into the production of one barrel of crude oil. (Production requires 0.1 tonnes per barrel, while consumption of the barrel emits the remaining 0.4 tonnes per barrel.)
The ACTP terminates at the Clive field, a world-class reservoir that still contains close to fifty percent of its recoverable oil. Enhance Energy understands this reservoir based on its 50-year production history and is confident of its ability to store carbon dioxide permanently.
Mr. Jabusch concluded his presentation by noting that CCS EOR is Alberta's opportunity. The province has 200 large emitters that produce 148 megatonnes of carbon dioxide annually.
After an informative question and answer session, Shondell Sabad thanked our speaker for his presentation.
COG Staff - February 11th, 2020
Editor
Craig Henderson
Photography
Ralph Lundberg
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