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City staff seeks $650,000 from Climate Commitment Act to fund carbon-capture feasibility study at Waste-to-Energy plant
Summary
City staff told the Spokane City Council at an agenda-setting briefing that a supplemental budget ordinance would add $650,000 in Climate Commitment Act funds to pay Carbon Quest to study carbon-capture options and costs for the Waste-to-Energy facility; the study is expected to finish in June and be presented in July.
Chris Everett, city staff, told the Spokane City Council during its agenda-setting meeting that a supplemental budget ordinance (C36677) will add $650,000 in Climate Commitment Act revenue and a matching expense to pay Carbon Quest to conduct a carbon-capture feasibility study at the city’s Waste-to-Energy facility.
The study will examine how much carbon could be captured, what can be done with the captured CO2 and the economics for each option, Everett said. "Whether we sequester it and basically inject it into basalt, there's some federal taxes that you can receive by doing that, or if you, you know, recover it and clean it to be used in food and beverage," he said.…
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