North America's largest direct air capture plant is set to operate in southwestern Manitoba as early as next year after Canadian company Deep Sky gave the green light for the carbon-removal facility.

Once at full capacity, the Deep Sky Manitoba direct air capture (DAC) plant, which is being built in three phases near Brandon, expects to draw 500,000 tonnes of CO2 a year directly from the atmosphere using what look like huge walls of extractor fans, before pumping it deep underground for storage (see factbox below).

Announcement of the $1-billion project, which follows the switch-on of the company’s DeepSky Alpha technology testing platform in Alberta earlier this year, puts it on track to rival US oil titan Occidental’s Stratos facility , being built in Texas.

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