Canadian carbon removal developer Deep Sky has officially launched operations at Deep Sky Alpha, marking North America’s first-ever sequestration of CO₂ captured directly from the atmosphere.
Built in just 12 months on a five-acre site in Innisfail, the facility integrates multiple direct air capture (DAC) technologies to accelerate scalable carbon removal. Entirely powered by solar energy, Alpha will capture 3,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually, with the gas permanently stored in Alberta’s deep saline aquifers.
“This is a defining moment, not just for Deep Sky, but for the global carbon removal industry,” said CEO Alex Petre. “We went from breaking ground to pulling carbon from the sky and locking it underground for good.”
The facility has created more than 110 construction jobs and will employ 15 full-time operators. Current DAC units on site include systems from UK-based Airhive and Mission Zero Technologies, as well as Quebec’s Skyrenu, with more units to follow later this year.
Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz welcomed the project, calling it proof of the province’s attractiveness for clean technology investment. “We’re proud to see companies investing here — and proving once again that Alberta is the best place in the world to build, innovate, and grow,” she said.
Deep Sky Alpha is the first step in a global carbon removal strategy for the Montreal-based company, which recently secured a $40 million grant from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst and carbon credit purchase agreements with Microsoft and RBC.