HYDROGEN: Saskatchewan pilots hydrogen to fuel the future

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Saskatchewan pilots hydrogen to fuel the future

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By Michael Bramadat-Willcock | News, La Ronge, Saskatchewan | July 14th 2020

(PHOTO: Jacky Wang, Dr. Ian Gates, Grant Strem, and Setayesh Afshordi during a 2020 hydrogen demo in Saskatchewan. Photograph courtesy of Proton Technologies.)

A hydrogen production pilot project in Saskatchewan could be the start of a new resource economy in Canada, industry insiders say.

"We plan to supply 10 per cent of the world’s energy needs in the form of exported hydrogen by 2040,” Proton Technologies CEO Grant Strem told Canada’s National Observer.

First of its kind in the world, Strem's method can extract hydrogen from orphaned oil wells and repurpose oilfields to produce close to zero-emissions fuel.

The new extraction method is being tested near Kerrobert, Sask., and could change the way we power our economy.

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