It sounds like this was intended. It looks like the project may've been based on winning a grant [from this call [PDF]](https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=

It sounds like this was intended. It looks like the project may've been based on winning a grant [from this call [PDF]](https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=2638932A61D80-09C7-C9F7-CCD99F5E0113E39A https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=2638932A61D80-09C7-C9... ) from 2009, which wanted: > The first round of commercial scale projects is expected to achieve annual carbon dioxide reductions by 2015 equivalent to taking approximately one-million vehicles, or about a third of all registered vehicles in the province, off of the road. Sounds like the Canadian-government was looking for projects that'd remove a lot of CO2 for the money, rather than necessarily a high portion of CO2 from the source. Then from the executive-summary of [this report from 2011](https://open.alberta.ca/publications/quest-carbon-capture-and-storage-project-report-2011 https://open.alberta.ca/publications/quest-carbon-capture-an... ): > Over one million tonnes of CO2 per year will be captured, representing greater than 35% capture of the CO2 produced from the Upgrader. Plus [this project-database](https://sequestration.mit.edu/tools/projects/quest.html https://sequestration.mit.edu/tools/projects/quest.html ) also listed it as being intended to capture ~35%. It's kinda weird to capture just ~35%, but apparently they didn't need to go higher to meet the project-specification.