Innovation Anthology #560:
Alberta is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
So meeting international reduction targets requires a major investment in innovation and transformative technologies.
Funding for this research is collected from Alberta’s largest final emitters of greenhouse gases, and is administered by the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation
Kirk Andries is the Corporation’s managing director.
KIRK ANDRIES: There is no silver bullet here. We like to think of it as silver buckshot. So the areas that we focus on that are actually based in Alberta’s Climate Change Strategy are cleaner energy production, carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency and conservation, and adaptation. And we finance work in everyone of those areas And yes, we have made investments in a variety of technologies that are really quite transformative and I think will serve us well as they get traction and they start to produce some results.
Kirk Andries says two promising projects are the world’s first carbon neutral bio-fuel plant at Hairy Hill Alberta, and an electro-magnetic extraction process that would eliminate the use of water in oil sands production.
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I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation
Program Date: 2013-05-28