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Gee, I wonder if an announcement by provincial parties is just waiting for an election...


ArcelorMittal Dofasco still seeking provincial cash for historic green steel overhaul in Hamilton

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-re...lormittal-dofasco-green-steelmaking.html

Matthew Van Dongen
The Hamilton Spectator
Fri., Oct. 29, 2021




ArcelorMittal Dofasco says it is in discussions with the province for funding needed to go ahead with a historic green steel transformation that would end the use of polluting coal at the Hamilton plant.

But without that still-uncommitted cash, the much anticipated $1.8-billion environmental overhaul remains in limbo.

The federal Liberal government announced $400 million with great fanfare July 30 to help the Hamilton steelmaker end coal-fired steelmaking — and eventually, transition to using green hydrogen as fuel. The project would cut the plant’s carbon emissions by two-thirds by 2028 — as well as radically reduce local air pollution.

Three months after the federal announcement, there is no provincial cash commitment — but general manager and environment director John Lundrigan told residents this week he is “very optimistic” the project will go ahead.

Lundrigan told a virtual community liaison meeting that ArcelorMittal Dofasco is “in discussions” now with the Progressive Conservative provincial government about potential funding. But he also reiterated the project is “contingent” on more government help.

An emailed statement from Ontario’s Economic Development Ministry said the province is in “continual dialogue” with the steelmaker about ways to ensure its competitiveness and “environmental sustainability.” It did not say if specific green steel project funding is under negotiation.

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Green steel ‘decarbonization’ project: what is it?

The proposed $1.8-billion overhaul includes:
- Building a massive new electric arc furnace (EAF) and upgrading an existing furnace to make steel;

- Building a “direct reduced iron” facility to turn mined ore into feedstock for an EAF using natural gas (and, someday, green hydrogen);

- Mothballing two coke plants (where coal is currently oven-baked into high-carbon coke);

- Shuttering three blast furnaces (where coke is burned to transform iron ore into liquid iron);

- Ending the use and storage of coal.


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