NorthRiver Fort St John Carbon Storage Project

The NorthRiver Fort St John Carbon Storage Project involves NorthRiver Midstream Inc. applying for and receiving a subsurface storage reservoir licence near Fort St John, British Columbia for the purpose of storing CO2 in deep geological formations such as the Belloy Formation, which lies within the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and has been identified as having storage potential for large quantities of CO₂ alongside other promising saline aquifers and depleted pools mapped across northeastern B.C. (including areas north and northeast of Fort St John) that together could theoretically store several billion metric tons of CO₂ across multiple formations. While not yet fully developed as a injection project with finalized infrastructure and permitted injection wells, NorthRiver’s licence—issued in February 2025—represents a formal step toward establishing carbon storage capacity tied to industrial emitters in the region by capturing CO₂ and sequestering it underground in deep saline reservoirs. The initiative builds on broader provincial and federal support for industrial decarbonization and carbon management, including BC’s CleanBC Industry Fund which has supported feasibility assessments and technical evaluations of carbon capture, compression, and reservoir storage options in northeastern B.C. facilities.