Climate Tech Startup CarbonCapture Moves Flagship Project from US to Canada After Trump Funding Cuts

As policy changed, CarbonCapture moved its Project Tamarack pilot from Arizona to Alberta, citing better incentives and regulatory stability.

At the beginning of this year, a climate tech startup called CarbonCapture was ready to break ground on its first commercial pilot at a site in Arizona. The company, which specializes in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, had secured a grant under the former administration’s cleantech subsidies. However, following the termination of various cleantech funding awards—including CarbonCapture’s own regional DAC hub project—the company made a swift decision to pivot.

The pilot, now relocated to Innisfail, Alberta, Canada, is expected to be the country’s largest single DAC deployment, capturing up to 2,000 tonnes of CO$_2$ per year. The move was driven by what CEO Adrian Corless called more stable government support and incentives in Canada, specifically a 60% investment tax credit from the federal government, plus an additional 12% from Alberta’s provincial government. CarbonCapture has partnered with Canadian startup Deep Sky to deploy the system at its Alpha facility.

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