TD Bank Buying Carbon Dioxide Removal Credits From Occidental's Stratos Plant
02 November 2023 - 12:10AM
Dow Jones News
By Colin Kellaher
Canadian banking giant Toronto-Dominion Bank has agreed to buy
carbon-dioxide-removal credits from Stratos, a direct-air-capture
plant that Occidental Petroleum's 1PointFive unit is building in
Texas.
Occidental and Toronto-Dominion on Wednesday said the bank's TD
Securities unit will buy 27,500 metric tons of direct-air-capture
credits over four years in one of the largest such purchases by a
financial institution.
Occidental is investing $1 billion in the Stratos plant, which
is slated to be commercially operational in mid-2025 and will use a
complex of large fans to suck massive amounts of carbon dioxide out
of the air and funnel it thousands of feet down deep wells into
geological formations, where it should remain for centuries.
Toronto-Dominion said the deal adds to TD Securities' portfolio
of voluntary carbon offsets as it works to build out its carbon
advisory and trading capabilities in the voluntary and compliance
carbon markets.
Toronto-Dominion, which is targeting net-zero greenhouse gas
emissions associated with its operating and financing activities by
2050, said it plans to use a portion of the credits from the
transaction to offset its own operational emissions.
Occidental's Stratos plant is expected to capture up to 500,000
metric tons of CO2 a year, and 1PointFive has said it could deploy
more than 100 direct-air-capture facilities worldwide by 2035 under
current compliance and market scenarios.
Write to Colin Kellaher at colin.kellaher@wsj.com
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