I mentioned CCS because one of our members is involved in coal mining. The carbon capture and sequestration is actually through SaskPower, but because they use coal—if you're not mining coal, we wouldn't be into it. Boundary Dam was the first commercialized carbon capture and sequestration. It's also used for enhanced oil recovery. The CO2 is actually sold to an oil and gas producer, so SaskPower has a revenue stream coming in as well, to help offset that.
As I said, Boundary Dam was a $1.4-billion total investment. Most of it was provincial money, but there was also some federal money involved in that. It's a test pilot. The provincial government now has to make a decision about whether it's going to invest in carbon capture and sequestration technology across the two other thermal coal-generating power plants in Saskatchewan.
The pilot is done. It's working successfully, as designed. We'll have to see if there's an appetite for investing in additional fleets. A lot of it, obviously, will come down to what the federal government is going to do.
We know there's a lot of pressure from groups that aren't looking at the outcome, they're just looking at coal as bad. They're not looking at the total GHG emissions. Natural gas emits far more GHG than CCS. It's not even comparable. If you're really looking for clean energy, CCS is leaps and bounds ahead of natural gas.
To respond to that, I think the government is looking to invest more, but they need to make sure their investment is going to have some payback.