The Alberta government and the federal government are each providing $10 million to help build a test facility in Calgary for technologies that convert carbon dioxide emissions into usable products.

A Vancouver-based company hopes to revolutionize the mining industry by converting carbon into something other than waste.

"It's gone from this idea into now technology that's out in to world being produced and supplying hundreds of projects all around North America," - Robert Niven, CEO of CarbonCure