North Star

Carbon Alpha’s North Star project is a Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) carbon dioxide removal initiative planned near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, developed in partnership with the **Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC). It integrates CCS with an existing bioenergy facility that combusts sustainably sourced forestry waste from a locally owned sawmill, the project will capture and compress it for permanent underground geological storage, creating high-quality carbon dioxide removals. North Star is the first majority Indigenous-owned carbon removal project in Canada and is listed as a future facility on the Puro.earth carbon removal platform, an important validation of its design and methodology. When operational (targeted for 2027), North Star is expected to generate on the order of ~90,000 high-quality carbon removal credits annually by permanently storing biogenic CO₂ that would otherwise return to the atmosphere, while also providing local economic benefits, workforce opportunities, and revenue to support community programs across the nine First Nations represented by MLTC