The federal natural resources department has been working with industry and different levels of government for the last three years on the project.
The strategy is expected to lean into the strengths Canada already possesses, including low-carbon intensive electricity, like hydro, and ample fossil fuel reserves, according to background documents provided by the federal government.
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.”
Source: How Ottawa hopes to supercharge Canada’s hydrogen fuel sector | CBC News
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France and the rest of Europe are getting in on it too…
France’s 7 billion-euro ($8.3 billion) plan to use clean hydrogen in industrial processes and transport will cut the country’s carbon dioxide output in 2030 by the equivalent of the annual emissions of Paris, the government said.
A global race to scale up green hydrogen has begun, with Europe pushing the fuel as key to the bloc’s future energy mix. But producing clean hydrogen from water using renewable energy is currently costlier than extracting it from fossil fuels, requiring government subsidies to drive down costs.