ArcelorMittal Dofasco

[ScreamingViking]

Expect Fordo to trumpet this as another victory over the "cap and trade carbon tax" (and the announcement will also be a timely distraction from the government's handling of the pandemic "freedom" protests)

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by SteelTown

Premier Doug Ford was in Hamilton Tuesday (Feb. 15) for the announcement that the province would be contributing $500 million to the plan — matching the federal investment, which was announced last July.

https://www.insauga.com/green-steelt...el-production/

Has this announcement been made? Or is insauga.com getting the scoops?

[SteelTown]

Our air has been incredibly better since the Nanticoke coal plant closed (remember the smog days during Harris-era?). Imagine the impact once Dofasco goes electric.

[craftbeerdad]

You're right SteelTown, it's much better since the plant shut in 2015. There's even a booming cottage area that didn't really exist near Nanticoke that's grown dramatically over the last seven years.

[SteelTown]

$500M boost for ArcelorMittal Dofasco secures future steel jobs for Hamilton, province says
Investment will help transform province into a world-leading producer of green steel, premier says


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...ment-1.6352369

Ontario's quest to replace coal-fed coke ovens and blast furnaces with new, low-emission technology got a major boost on Tuesday, with the province contributing up to $500 million in loan and grant support to Hamilton's ArcelorMittal Dofasco plant.

Premier Doug Ford and company officials said the investment will help transform the province into a world-leading producer of green steel. This will boost the province's robust auto parts supply chain and skilled workforce in communities with deep roots in steel manufacturing, they said, to help meet the global demand for low-carbon auto production.

"Hamilton is steel town," Ford said at a Tuesday morning news conference at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco plant.

The city, he said, already makes "some of the finest steel in the entire world," and will soon be able to add "cleanest" steel to that designation.

"What this does, it gives every single person here — 4,600 [employees] — certainty, for decades," Ford said.

"…Because of our government's actions, Ontario will be a major player in getting the low-emission vehicles of the future built here in Ontario, and steel, clean steel, will be a critical ingredient."

Ron Bedard, president and CEO of ArcelorMittal Dofasco, said the investment puts the company on a path to low-carbon, sustainable steel.

Bedard said today's announcement "sends a signal that Hamilton is a centre of steel making, safety and excellence, and a key part of Ontario's economy, and that it's an industry that can help achieve our climate change goals."

Meanwhile, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, Vic Fedeli said the investment in green-steel manufacturing "will give auto makers and other industries yet another reason to buy Ontario and hire Ontario workers when they look to transform their supply chain."

"This Hamilton plant will be among the first in ArcelorMittal's global operations to replace blast furnaces with electric arc furnaces … The bottom line is this, if the car of the future is going to be electric, then the steel it's made with needs to be electric, too," Fedeli said.

"With this … investment, the car of the future will also be low carbon before it even rolls off the assembly line. It's a major turning point for the Ontario global auto sector."

ArcelorMittal Dofasco — Canada's largest flat-rolled steel producer, and Hamilton's largest private-sector employer, employing about 4,600 people — has produced steel in Hamilton for more than 100 years.

Last July, the federal government announced $400 million for a project at ArcelorMittal Dofasco that the company says will help it cut carbon emissions by more than half.

The government said its investment is part of a $1.765-billion project to phase out coal-fired steel making and is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to three million tonnes per year by 2030. The goal is to have the project completed by 2028.

TAF: Hamilton has largest per capita emissions in GTHA

Meanwhile, in its most recent report the Atmospheric Fund (TAF), a regional climate agency that focuses on the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, said Hamilton has the largest per capita emissions in the GTHA.

Additionally, TAF has highlighted the following:

* 53 per cent of Hamilton's emissions come from industry, representing 55.6 per cent of the GTHA's industrial emissions.
* Emissions decreased less than one per cent in 2019 and 13.6 per cent in 2020. The 2020 decrease is a result of pandemic-related impacts and expected to be temporary.
* Hamilton had a moderate drop in emissions from transportation in 2020 when compared to other regions.



On its website, the City of Hamilton said the impacts of climate change not only cause millions of dollars of infrastructure damage, but damage homes and businesses, and put people at increased risk to their health and safety.

The city said climate change is seen locally in the increased frequency and severity of heat waves causing drought, and the increased severity and frequency of storms, heavy precipitation leading to flooding, shoreline and escarpment erosion.

Hamilton is on a mission to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

[SteelTown]

ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s ‘green steel’ transformation to start in January
Multi-year project starts with the demolition of a defunct coke plant

https://www.thespec.com/business/202...een-steel.html

ArcelorMittal Dofasco will begin a $1.8-billion “green steel” transformation next year by knocking down a defunct coke plant once ranked among the city’s worst coal-fired polluters.

The bayfront steelmaker pledged last year to replace aging, coal-fired coke ovens and blast furnaces with electric arc furnaces by 2028 — with $900 million in public funding from Ontario and the federal government.

Those changes would slash cancer-causing air pollution and black fallout in Hamilton, and cut greenhouse gas emissions from Dofasco by nearly two-thirds. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Hamilton on Thursday for a groundbreaking on a project he called “an example to the world of what clean innovation will look like.”

Real work will begin in January with demolition of the defunct No. 1 coke plant, said Tammy Oommen, a Dofasco project program manager. That collection of 105 coke ovens was shuttered in 2015, to the relief of environmental advocates who called the battery one of the worst culprits for black pollution.

The demolition — which will not feature any spectacular explosions — is needed to make room for “direct reduced iron” technology that will extract iron from ore. The 150-metre-tall DRI facility should be under construction in 2024, with coal-free steelmaking meant to begin by 2028.

[Innsertnamehere]

150 metres! That would be the tallest structure in the city, depending on the timing of construction of the Stoney Creek waterfront towers.

[Fruitloops]

Finally the 30 floor limit is breached and then some.

What a great view for the millions that drive over the skyway each year. Something to tell their friends about

[Hawrylyshyn]

Hamilton will officially have a new, signature building to define us!

[ScreamingViking]

According to the diagram database on this site, we already have a stack that's taller than any other building in the city (aside from the CHCH tower, which is very tall but supported by cables)

136.2m: https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?buildingID=4371

[Innsertnamehere]

hmm, could it have been demolished at some point? The tallest stack I see at Stelco or Dofasco is at Stelco and it's about 85 metres tall according to Google Earth.. most of the stacks are in the 70 metre range.

[ScreamingViking]

Could be. We'll see more of the existing ones go as well, with AM-D's upgrading and Stelco's shrinking steel footprint.

Plus the Hamilton list hasn't needed much updating until fairly recently. And I doubt industrial stuff gets the same attention as office and condo towers.

[ScreamingViking]

Don, Don, Don...

Never waste an opportunity to make a point I guess. But the real question is, would we rather they keep using coke to make steel? Nobody thought the transition would be easy, but a transition it needs to be.

So long as the city isn't paying for this.


Dofasco aims to build 14-kilometre pipeline for ‘green steel’ project
$1.8-billion transition is expected to double steelmaker’s demand for natural gas

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...-pipeline.html

Teviah Moro
The Hamilton Spectator
Thu., Feb. 2, 2023


ArcelorMittal Dofasco says its plan to transition to “green steel” by 2028 hinges on the construction of a 14-kilometre natural gas pipeline in Hamilton.

The phasing out of coke ovens and blast furnaces in favour of electric arc furnaces will eliminate three million tonnes of carbon dioxide, says Tony Valeri, vice-president of corporate affairs.

The $1.8-billion project is expected to double demand for natural gas from roughly 500 million cubic metres to more than a billion, Valeri told council Wednesday.

“But it’s very important that we’re able to execute this project on time and on budget.”

The bayfront steelmaker and partner Enbridge’s preferred pipeline route would require municipal permits to build along city roads.

They “would very much welcome the support from the City of Hamilton to move this project forward,” Murray Costello, a regional director with Enbridge, told The Spectator.

The preferred option would see the pipeline constructed along Highway 56, Upper Centennial Parkway, Barton Street East and Kenilworth Avenue North to the steelmaker.

That trajectory involves the least amount of impact on natural areas, including a less favourable alternative through King’s Forest Golf Club, Costello noted.

Council offered mixed reactions to pipeline plan after the proponents’ presentation at city hall.

Coun. Tammy Hwang called the project a “really great opportunity” to cut greenhouse gases from the steelmaking operation.

That’s acknowledged, said Coun. Alex Wilson, but the Dundas councillor told the presenters they should investigate ways to reduce natural gas consumption in Hamilton.

“We have to ask sooner rather than later, and what we do matters more.”

Likewise, environmentalist Don McLean told council adding more fossil fuel to the mix will only exacerbate the climate crisis. “It’s really disturbing that we’re looking at another large pipeline.”

Enbridge could instead direct its “substantial” funds toward the replacement of natural gas in local homes with heat pumps, McLean suggested.

He also noted that steelmaking operations in Sweden have already gone free of fossil fuels.

“So it can be done, and it can be done right now in terms of the technology.”

Valeri said ArcelorMittal Dofasco is exploring alternatives such as hydrogen but “part of the challenge” is having enough supply to fuel operations in the short term.

“This is really the first phase to the transition to net zero or low-carbon steel,” he said.

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