In Part 1 of this multi-part series, Alberta Innovates identified asphalt binder — the glue that holds the asphalt mix together — as the bitumen beyond combustion (BBC) product having “the greatest potential of achieving commercial success” in the short and longer term.
March 19, 2024, 7 AM MDT
Alberta Innovates has been promoting and supporting the Bitumen Beyond Combustion (BBC) program since its conception in 2016, with some modest successes to date across the three main potential product streams — asphalt binder, energy carbons and carbon fibre.
March 13, 2024, 6 AM MDT
The idea of engineering the climate by blocking the sun’s rays through various means has been around for decades.
March 5, 2024, 8 AM MST
My initial thought when the editors of the DOB asked me to come out of op-ed retirement to write about federal NDP backbencher Charlie Angus’s Bill C-372 — also known as the Fossil Fuel Advertising Act — was there’s no point because the bill has a snowball’s chance in hell of passing in the House of Commons.
February 21, 2024, 8:54 AM MST
In the two weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the DOB published my three-part “President Putin’s Massive Ukrainian Blunder” series.
January 31, 2024, 6 AM MST
Canada’s EV supply chain is widely viewed to have a great deal of potential, ranking second in the world after China in BloombergNEF’s latest global rankings in November 2022.
January 15, 2024, 6 AM MST
Electric vehicle bulls recognize the industry has significant geopolitical, economic and environmental impediments to overcome if EVs are to dominate the global road transportation market.
January 8, 2024, 6 AM MST
“The future will see tens of millions more EVs on the roads, even without government programs that favour or mandate them,” Mark P. Mills wrote in Electric Vehicles for Everyone? The Impossible Dream, a Manhattan Institute report released in July.
January 2, 2024, 6 AM MST
“We're off to the races on EV adoption,” Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport at BloombergNEF and lead author of its 2023 Electric Vehicle Outlook, said on an episode of Bloomberg Green’s Zero podcast in early October.
December 18, 2023, 6 AM MST
As discussed in Part 1 of this three-part series, Canada’s downstream subsector presently is the closest to achieving the level of emission reductions proposed in the federal government’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) — 31 per cent below 2005 levels by end of decade/42 per cent below 2019 levels — whereas the midstream subsector has reduced emissions by a relatively modest amount to date (see Figure 1).
November 30, 2023, 6 AM MST
As discussed in Part 1 of this series, Canada’s conventional oil and gas subsector may be able to achieve the level of emission reductions proposed in the federal government’s 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan — 31 per cent below 2005 levels by end of decade/42 per cent below 2019 levels — but the oilsands subsector doesn’t have a chance due to massive production increases dwarfing improvements in emissions intensity (see Figure 1).
November 21, 2023, 6 AM MST
The federal government’s oil and gas emissions cap is coming — much like winter in HBO’s blockbuster hit series Game of Thrones — with its draft legislation likely to be released by the end of the year.
November 14, 2023, 12 AM MST
As discussed in Part 1 of this series, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and provincial Crown corporation SaskPower have stated in the most extreme terms that transitioning to a low-carbon power grid by 2035 — the goal of the federal government’s proposed Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) — is not achievable as it “isn’t feasible technically, logistically, or financially."
October 31, 2023, 6 AM MDT
As discussed in Part 1 of this series, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) projected the cost of achieving a net-zero grid in Alberta by 2035 to be substantially higher than under a more gradual decarbonization approach in its “Net-Zero Emissions Pathways Report” released in June 2022.
October 25, 2023, 8 AM MDT
The British Columbia government was the quickest Canadian province to release a clean hydrogen strategy in July 2021, and in many ways appears to have the most developed and systematic strategy for developing a hydrogen economy in their province.
October 11, 2023, 12 AM MDT
The Canadian government released a draft version of its Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) in August, with the goal of achieving net-zero emission grids in all provinces and territories by 2035.
October 3, 2023, 9 AM MDT
Ontario appears to be taking more of a shotgun approach to its low-carbon hydrogen industry, in terms of sources of clean hydrogen and the markets it will serve in the province, than Alberta, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec — the focus of earlier parts of this series — based on a strategy document released in April 2022.
September 26, 2023, 12 AM MDT
Three high-ranking representatives from major oil and gas producing jurisdictions expressed similar views about matters related to net-zero emissions on a ministerial roundtable at the 2023 World Petroleum Congress in Calgary.
September 21, 2023, 8:30 AM MDT
The Quebec government appears to have relatively low expectations for the province’s clean hydrogen industry compared to either Alberta or Atlantic Canada — the focus of Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, respectively — despite releasing a Green Hydrogen and Bioenergy Strategy in May 2022.
September 11, 2023, 6 AM MDT
Atlantic Canada is off to a fast start in the global clean hydrogen race, with a plethora of small and large-scale projects proposed for the region — especially wind-based export projects in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland & Labrador (NL), with projects in Nova Scotia presently leading the pack.
August 23, 2023, 6 AM MDT
“We believe Alberta is on track to become a major producer and exporter of clean hydrogen and ammonia,” Alberta Energy and Minerals Minister Brian Jean tells the Bulletin.
August 9, 2023, 6 AM MDT
The federal and a number of provincial governments have released strategies in the past few years to help develop a strong clean hydrogen economy in Canada in the coming decades to stimulate economic growth and job creation and to slash the country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
July 24, 2023, 12 AM MDT
In Part 1 of this series, I argued that the direct air capture (DAC) industry is at last achieving liftoff, largely due to government support, especially in the U.S.
July 10, 2023, 6 AM MDT
Los Angeles-based CarbonCapture Inc. is taking a very different approach to developing large-scale direct air capture (DAC) projects than Carbon Engineering, in terms of type of sorbent, its open architecture and modular design, and all-encompassing business model (see The Direct Air Capture Series, Part 2 – Carbon Engineering Is The Dominant Force).
July 4, 2023, 12 AM MDT
Squamish, B.C.-based Carbon Engineering, in partnership with 1PointFive, an arm of U.S. mega-independent Occidental Petroleum, is the dominant force in the fledgling direct air capture plus storage (DAC+S) industry, with the potential to remain so far into the future.
June 13, 2023, 12 AM MDT
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