This article was published by COSIA on Nov. 19, 2019. By its nature, oil sands development—particularly mining—disturbs surface lands. Sections of forest in Northern Alberta have been cleared so the underlying bitumen can be recovered. [Read more]
This article was published by COSIA on Feb 6, 2020. Mathijs Martens was sitting around a barbecue conversing with friends and family when the topic of the oil sands came up. “We were talking about [Read more]
The Board of Directors of the Alberta Energy Regulator announced on Friday that Gordon Lambert has been named interim president and CEO of the AER following the retirement of Jim Ellis. AER photo. Gordon Lambert [Read more] [Read more]
Canadian Natural, CNOOC Nexen, Cenovus Energy, ConocoPhillips Canada, Devon, Imperial Oil, Suncor partnered on the $20 million global competition to re-imagine CO2 Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) joined XPRIZE and NRG Energy in revealing the [Read more]
Oil sands in situ production uses water for generating steam, requires less than 0.3 barrels fresh water per barrel of oil produced Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) is receiving almost $600,000 from Western Economic [Read more]
$500,000 in funding available for combined Challenge Sprint and Field Testing Natural gas is already the cleanest fossil fuel, but a new competition aims to “de-carbonize” Canada’s gas supply even further, possibly helping the country [Read more]
Technology competitions like Waste Heat Challenge are terrific policy for stimulating technical innovation When Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced her climate change policies last Nov., energy industry leaders promised they would “take the carbon out [Read more]
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