An ongoing series investigating new energy innovation, sustainability challenges and opportunities.
Schlumberger New Energy, the CEA and partners have announced Florence Lambert as the CEO of the Genvia clean hydrogen production technology venture, effective March 1, 2021.
February 8, 2021, 10:32 AM MST
E3 Metals Corp. opened a direct lithium extraction (DLE) development and testing facility in Calgary.
February 4, 2021, 6 AM MST
Both for reliability and environmental purposes, oil and gas companies want to increasingly include renewables on their off-grid installations, which makes effective battery storage a necessary tool — an issue for which Québec-based EVLO Energy Storage Inc. has a safe solution.
February 3, 2021, 8:22 AM MST
B.C. is currently working on a hydrogen strategy, which it expects to release in the coming weeks or months, heard the recent B.C. Natural Resources Forum.
February 1, 2021, 12 AM MST
Royal Helium Ltd.’s Climax-2 helium exploration well was spudded Jan. 26 with a target depth of 2,600 metres targeting the Deadwood formation, a sand and shale sequence that is known to produce helium in Saskatchewan.
January 28, 2021, 6:47 AM MST
Western Canada has the resources, workforce and technical expertise to help meet both current and future lithium demand, according to a paper recently published in the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law.
January 25, 2021, 9:08 AM MST
Lithium developer E3 Metals Corp. has entered into an agreement with Echelon Wealth Partners Inc. and Canaccord Genuity Corp. as co-leads and joint bookrunners.
January 21, 2021, 7:16 AM MST
Money alone cannot give rise to a hydrogen economy, says Peter Tertzakian, deputy director of the ARC Energy Research Institute.
January 20, 2021, 7:04 AM MST
With its vast network of oil and natural gas pipelines, Western Canada is well positioned to benefit from the growing interest in hydrogen as an alternative energy source, says the head of a Calgary-based infrastructure information provider.
January 7, 2021, 7:53 AM MST
Royal Helium Ltd. has started its initial three well-drilling program at its Climax helium project.
January 6, 2021, 6:34 AM MST
E3 Metals Corp. appointed John Pantazopoulos as chief financial officer.
January 5, 2021, 12 AM MST
The federal government’s small modular reactors (SMR) action plan seeks to advance the safe and responsible development and deployment of SMRs through a pan-Canadian approach in partnership with provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous peoples, organized labour, utilities, industry, innovators, academia and civil society.
December 18, 2020, 11:35 AM MST
Federal energy and environment ministers left no doubt that natural gas would play a prominent role in the federal hydrogen strategy sketched out on Wednesday as part of its climate response and pandemic recovery plans.
December 17, 2020, 11:15 AM MST
Low-emissions hydrogen production — commonly referred to as “blue” and “green” hydrogen — is being touted as everything from a savior to decarbonizing the economy to a potential godsend for oil and gas producers that can make the pivot from one sun-setting energy source to another sun-rising one.
December 16, 2020, 8:21 AM MST
Federal Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan this morning launched the Hydrogen Strategy for Canada, a framework that seeks to “position Canada as a global hydrogen leader.”
December 16, 2020, 10:04 AM MST
A national hydrogen strategy to be released “very soon” will seek to make Canada a world-leading producer of clean hydrogen, Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan said this week.
December 10, 2020, 11:09 AM MST
The world is moving quickly towards a low carbon future that has the power to transform Canada’s energy economy, but the country needs to act quickly if it is going to benefit from this shift.
December 10, 2020, 7:14 AM MST
Livent Corporation has opted out of a joint development agreement with Calgary-based E3 Metals Corp. signed last year to advance E3’s pre-commercial lithium extraction technology.
November 30, 2020, 9:24 AM MST
Royal Helium Ltd. has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters to fund exploration drilling for helium on the company's lands in southern Saskatchewan and for general corporate purposes.
November 30, 2020, 9:36 AM MST
Canada has a “pretty big gap” in terms of a concise strategy on energy research and development, says Monica Gattinger, Positive Energy chair and director of the University of Ottawa’s Institute for Science, Society and Policy.
November 25, 2020, 6 AM MST
A preliminary economic assessment of E3 Metals Corp.’s planned 20,000 tonnes per year lithium hydroxide monohydrate project in central Alberta estimates the $602 million (all figures U.S.) facility could offer a pre-tax internal rate of return of 32 per cent over the life of the 20-year project.
November 23, 2020, 12:37 PM MST
FortisBC is investing $500,000 to study how the utility can further reduce emissions from its natural gas supply by delivering hydrogen through its extensive distribution network.
November 23, 2020, 10:23 AM MST
The board of the First Nations Major Projects Coalition (FNMPC) will provide “capacity support” to the Clarke Lake geothermal project as requested by Fort Nelson First Nation (FNFN).
November 23, 2020, 10:31 AM MST
E3 Metals Corp. has entered into an agreement with Canaccord Genuity Corp. to lead a brokered private placement of units of the company in syndicate with Mackie Research Capital Corp. (MRCC) of up to C$6.7 million at a price of C$1.10/unit.
November 20, 2020, 7:39 AM MST
Enbridge Gas Inc. and Cummins Inc., with the support of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (STDC), are undertaking a $5.2 million project to pilot the blending of renewable hydrogen produced at the Markham, Ontario-located power-to-gas facility, into a portion of the existing natural gas network serving about 3,600 customers in Markham in 2021.
November 18, 2020, 10:10 AM MST
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