How Ottawa hopes to supercharge Canada's hydrogen fuel sector
Alberta has been working with Ottawa on the national strategy and is developing its own blueprint.
Hydrogen in Alberta is traditionally made from natural gas, but the province believes it can become a leader in cleaner "blue" hydrogen by introducing carbon-capture-and-storage technology to the process.
"By 2050, [hydrogen] is going to be a $2.5-trillion industry," said Dale Nally, Alberta's associate minister of natural gas, citing global hydrogen industry figures. "We need to keep advancing this sector."
It's impossible to know more than what we have already been told, but I recently wrote an article that quoted Associate Minister of Natural Gas Dale Nally, as saying, "Alberta will announce, no later than October, a strategy to develop “blue hydrogen” as a cleaner alternative to using natural gas to extract crude at steam-driven oil sands sites."
I'm thinking I'm going to be awfully disappointed if that's all the Alberta government plans to use Hydrogen for. Alberta is in a good position to become a world super power in the development, transportation and distribution of Hydrogen. What do you think?