{"id":1669187,"date":"2022-10-03T02:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669187"},"modified":"2022-10-03T02:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T06:52:53","slug":"japan-firms-eye-ammonia-methanol-projects-in-canada-alberta-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-firms-eye-ammonia-methanol-projects-in-canada-alberta-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan firms eye ammonia, methanol projects in Canada, Alberta minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjapan-firms-eye-ammonia-methanol-projects-in-canada-alberta-minister-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669187&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Yuka Obayashi<\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2013     Japanese companies are looking to invest in the Canadian province of Alberta to produce ammonia and methanol in the effort to build global supply chains of greener energy to fight climate change, a provincial minister said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Home to Canada\u2019s oil sands, Alberta aims to become a hub for hydrogen production as well as carbon storage, as the world tries to cut climate-warming carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>As part of such efforts, Japan wants to step up investment in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and low-carbon fuels such as hydrogen and ammonia to ensure stable supply and reach a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are having LNG conversations with Japanese companies as well, but most of their interests are around new projects for hydrogen, meaning ammonia or methanol,\u201d said Dale Nally, Alberta\u2019s associate minister of natural gas and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJapan wants diversified clean energy portfolio and they also want a diversity of jurisdictions that they get that energy from,\u201d he told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The resource-poor Asian nation views Alberta as a secure provider of diversified clean energy products, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese trading company Itochu Corp and Malaysia\u2019s state energy firm Petronas are already exploring the feasibility of one of the world\u2019s largest production facility of low-carbon ammonia and methanol in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>They aim to start construction there in 2024, with commercial production to follow in 2027. <\/p>\n<p>Itochu\u2019s rival, Mitsubishi Corp, and Shell Canada signed a pact last year to produce low-carbon hydrogen in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are other Japanese companies that are looking to get into ammonia and methanol space in Alberta,\u201d Nally said, though he declined to give specific names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese companies looking to produce clean hydrogen need carbon capture utilization storage (CCUS) to do that, so they will be also looking to invest in CCUS,\u201d he added.    <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/japan-firms-eye-ammonia\/attachment\/file-photo-an-lng-tanker-is-tugged-towards-a-thermal-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI92097-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI92097-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) \u2013 Japanese companies are looking to invest in the Canadian province of Alberta to produce ammonia and methanol in the effort to build global supply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/japan-firms-eye-ammonia\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japan-firms-eye-ammonia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}