Edmonton-based Capital Power is taking a multifaceted approach to decarbonizing electricity as it moves to replace coal with natural gas at its Genesee generating station in 2023, six years ahead of a provincial mandate, says a company official.
September 28, 2022, 12 AM MDT
It’s the gift that just keeps on giving.
August 23, 2022, 7:19 AM MDT
When Ontario-based Morgan Solar developed a solar farm for Enbridge Inc. at Burdett in southeastern Alberta, it was Morgan’s first utility scale development of its SimbaX proprietary optical film technology.
August 12, 2022, 6:33 AM MDT
An Edmonton-based company with technology expertise in Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) for the drone industry is ready to start regularly scheduled flights along an oilsands pipeline corridor in northern Alberta.
July 13, 2022, 7:38 AM MDT
The founder of the company that pioneered carbon capture and storage at a refinery in Alberta has a proposed new partnership — producing “bright green” hydrogen using the same gasification process but with wood waste fibre for feedstock.
July 5, 2022, 12 AM MDT
While carbon capture and storage is increasingly seen as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a Calgary company wants to not only capture CO2 but to put it to use in the production of carbon nanotubes (CNT).
May 17, 2022, 12 AM MDT
While the world is focused on net-zero emissions by 2050, a Calgary-based cleantech company has developed an improved lower-emissions diesel fuel that in the meantime could make a difference in providing cleaner air for communities.
May 2, 2022, 8:30 AM MDT
After having spent most of his working life in the auto industry, Paul Wickett knows something about manufacturing.
April 5, 2022, 6 AM MDT
A privately held junior oil and gas company is looking to develop a $50 million carbon capture and storage project in the greater Golden Spike area, southwest of Edmonton, the site of one of Canada’s most prolific oilfields.
March 21, 2022, 12 AM MDT
What goes around often comes around and that’s the case for Enbridge Inc., which is partnering with Capital Power Corporation to evaluate and advance an open access carbon capture and storage (CCS) hub in the Wabamun area west of Edmonton.
March 11, 2022, 8:21 AM MST
A pipeline conceived of a decade ago with funding from the Alberta and federal governments could play a major role in the province’s vision of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) that would help move it toward net-zero emissions by 2050.
February 22, 2022, 6 AM MST
While a University of Calgary researcher’s quest to provide new markets for Alberta bitumen began with dry pellets (dubbed “bitumen balls”), the research and development has shifted direction and evolved in the past four years.
February 1, 2022, 12 AM MST
When Jupiter Resources Inc. was sold to Tourmaline Oil Corp. just over a year ago, co-founders Simon Bregazzi and Patrick Elliott simply didn’t have the enthusiasm to launch another oil and gas company.
January 18, 2022, 12 AM MST
A new web-based software tool currently in development promises to assist the oil and gas industry in accelerating emission mitigation strategies, a recent Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada (PTAC) virtual information session heard.
December 24, 2021, 6 AM MST
From drilling and completions in Western Canada, to semi-submersible rigs offshore Newfoundland and Norway to an Edmonton biofuels plant, Jeff Tomaszewski has demonstrated his willingness to tackle new challenges during his 15 years in oil and gas.
December 2, 2021, 6 AM MST
When oil and gas companies face the myriad of regulatory approvals required for a new project, an essential member of the team is their regulatory counsel. And for her part, Martha Peden, vice-president of regulatory and public affairs at NorthRiver Midstream Inc., relishes the variety of that work.
December 1, 2021, 6 AM MST
Although he has spent the bulk of his industry career in a bear market, 32-year-old Brendan Paton likes being a bit of a contrarian.
November 30, 2021, 6 AM MST
At one time if anyone even thought about a company’s supply chain, it conjured up a vision of an older man sitting in a dusty basement writing out purchase orders in triplicate. Today, that stereotype could not be farther from reality, says Jennifer Lewis, category lead, engineering and survey services at TC Energy Corporation.
November 29, 2021, 6 AM MST
Although blue and green hydrogen typically come to mind when it comes to decarbonized hydrogen production, a new private company is proposing to add to the mix another colour — turquoise — with the use of microwave energy.
November 26, 2021, 12 AM MST
As a commerce student at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Devin Lacey spent three co-op placements at ExxonMobil Corp. in both operations and development.
November 26, 2021, 3:16 AM MST
Beginning with her first job as a recruiter at Shell Canada, people have always been at the heart of the energy industry for people and strategy professional human resources consultant Gillian Hynes.
November 25, 2021, 6 AM MST
More than a century ago, Ontario native Alexander T. Stuart envisioned the idea of water electrolysis to produce hydrogen and oxygen gases that could be used in the chemical, industrial and transportation industries.
November 24, 2021, 12 AM MST
Although Thomas Fox has an environmental science degree from McGill University in Montreal, the president and co-founder of Highwood Emissions Management, a rapidly growing start-up, attributes his current role to “a little bit of luck.”
November 24, 2021, 6 AM MST
Just over a year ago, Jessica Shumlich with a partner, Thomas Fox, followed her passion and launched a new company, Highwood Emissions Management, a consultancy specializing in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
November 24, 2021, 6 AM MST
As project manager with Landmark Resource Management Ltd., a Victoria-based natural resource management consulting firm, Brad Densmore helps both Indigenous and non-Indigenous clients navigate the evolving area of ESG (environmental, social and governance).
November 23, 2021, 6 AM MST
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