EDMONTON, AB – Alberta leads the market in developing new ways to produce low-carbon fuels and energy. By creating world-scale CCS capacity for detecting and capturing methane, Alberta continues to advance global technologies to decarbonize hard-to-abate industrial sectors. Hydrogen is the next stage in this effort, and Alberta has an opportunity to be a global leader in low-carbon and carbon-negative hydrogen. This $3 million investment from Emissions Reduction Alberta will help Hydrogen Naturally develop a project that converts forestry harvest residuals and fire-kill fibre – wood damaged by wildfire – into hydrogen. It will then capture and sequester the carbon typically released into the air during this process underground, transporting it to saline aquifers or depleted gas reservoirs. Carbon-negative hydrogen will then be blended with natural gas to produce carbon-neutral energy.