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How Drumheller Is Helping Accelerate Alberta’s Energy Storage Market
On the prairie outside Drumheller, Alberta, rows of solar panels do more than soak up sunshine. They feed a battery that has quietly become one of Alberta’s most instructive experiments in the province’s energy transition, proving that pairing solar power with storage can work and be profitable in one of North America’s most competitive electricity […]
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From Guesswork to Proof: How a Calgary Startup Is Making Methane Data Make Sense
Somewhere in the world right now, a well pad is leaking methane no one has spotted yet. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of wells, vast networks of pipelines, and a patchwork of regulations in constant flux, and you start to see the problem Jessica Shumlich and Thomas Fox set out to solve. Methane is […]
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ERA Invests Nearly $51 Million in Alberta Innovation to Cut Emissions and Grow the Economy
EDMONTON, AB – Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) is investing nearly $51 million across 16 new projects worth nearly $180 million that reduce greenhouse gas emissions while driving innovation and economic growth in Alberta. This funding comes from the industry-funded Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund, delivered through ERA. “Alberta is home to world-class innovators, […]
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Integrated FEED Study for BECCS Project at Mercer Peace River
Svante is advancing its Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) initiative to decarbonize Mercer’s pulp mill operation, located north of Peace River. Building on a previous ERA-funded project, Svante will conduct a front-end engineering design (FEED) study of their carbon capture technology and appraise a new CO2 storage site close to the site. The […]
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Operationalizing Slow Release BioLodestone: Field Trials, AI Integration, and Regulatory Acceptance for Accelerated Site Closure in Alberta
LiORA aims to advance and test its BioLodestone technology, a natural nutrient mix to remediate sites contaminated by hydrocarbons (gasoline, crude oil, diesel). These contaminated sites are an environmental and economic liability across Alberta and Western Canada. Current soil remediation methods require long site closure and are carbon-intensive, costly, and impractical at remote or low-security […]
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ERA Invests $20 Million in Four Rural and Northern Alberta Technology Projects
EDMONTON, AB – Today, the Government of Alberta announced $20 million in funding, delivered through Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), for four projects advancing carbon capture, hydrogen transportation, energy infrastructure and land reclamation in rural and northern Alberta. Funding is sourced from the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund. The investment will put innovative solutions […]
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Doubling Oil Pipeline Throughput and Export Capacity While Halving Diluent Use with Continuous Multilayered Encapsulation (CME) Technology
Northiana has developed a technology that can enable the transportation of highly viscous fluids, such as under-blended crude oil and thickened mine tailings, through existing pipelines while using less energy. Traditionally, bitumen transport requires a 30% blend of diluent, an additive to reduce the thickness of the bitumen and help it flow through pipelines. Diluent […]
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Brooks Newell Hydrogen Hub
Funded through ERA’s Continuous Intake Program, the Brooks Newell Hydrogen Project brings together the two critical elements required to successfully introduce hydrogen as a transportation fuel in Alberta. The first is the design and construction of a stand-alone hydrogen production and refuelling facility (H2 Hub) capable of meeting local demand for clean hydrogen while also […]
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Weaving Sustainability into PPE Manufacturing at Davey Textile Solutions Inc
When Lauren Degenstein, Sustainability & Training/Production Coordinator at Davey Textile Solutions (DTS), graduated from the University of Alberta in Textile and Apparel Science, she knew she wanted to help make the industry better for the environment.
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Livestock Water Recycling Is Turning Livestock Waste Into a Resource
What if livestock manure could be transformed into clean water, dry fertilizer, and fewer greenhouse gas emissions — all on the farm? Livestock Water Recycling (LWR) is making that a reality with its PLANT system — an innovative on-site technology that processes liquid manure, recovers reusable water, and dramatically reduces the environmental footprint of livestock […]