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Oil Sands Vegetation Cooperative supports reclamation of disturbed areas

February 28, 2020 Energi Staff

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]

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Biotech firm looks to microbes to clean up oil sands process water

February 28, 2020 Energi Staff

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]

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AER names Gordon Lambert interim president, CEO

December 3, 2018 Energi Staff

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]

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Innovation

$20 million Carbon XPRIZE finalists ready to test transformative CO2 technologies at Alberta’s carbon conversion centre

April 9, 2018 Markham Hislop

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]

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Innovation

NAIT receives $800,000 to build testing unit for new oil sands water technologies

January 11, 2018 Markham Hislop

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]

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Markham on Energy

De-carbonized natural gas goal of next ARCTIC technology challenge

November 12, 2017 Markham Hislop

$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]

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Waste Heat Challenge example of how Alberta oil sands will lick GHG emissions issue

August 29, 2016 JZadmin

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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Huge battery plant subsidies are price Canada pays for lagging in clean energy industry

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

China dominates clean energy industry, US and Europe race to catch up Government subsidies totalling $28.2 billion for two Ontario battery plants require 20-year pay back, according to Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Yves Giroux. Clean [Read more]

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