Canada Infrastructure Bank will provide a loan of $277 million to a joint-venture partnership between Shell, Suncor, Proman and the government of Québec that will enable construction of Canada’s largest biorefinery, the Varennes Carbon Recycling facility, according to a news release.
The $1.2bn facility will include an electrolyzer which will supply clean hydrogen and oxygen to convert more than 200,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste and residual biomass into biofuels with a capacity of up to 130 million litres annually.
The project will be using Enerkem’s proprietary thermochemical process.
This is CIB’s first project from its low-carbon fuels, carbon capture utilization storage and hydrogen initiative.
