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JUNE 5, 2010

The government of Canada is awarding approximately C$5 million (US$4.7 A main component to help the algae grow will be carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion. In the project, NRC is collaborating with a number of industrial partners, including Ocean Nutrition Canada in Halifax; Menova Energy Inc. Dr. O’Leary.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

Black carbon (BC) from incomplete biomass and fossil fuel combustion is the most strongly light-absorbing component of particulate matter (PM) air pollution and a major climate-forcing emission. Baumgartner and her colleagues measured the daily exposure to different types of air pollutants, including black carbon, in 280 women (mean age 51.9

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AUGUST 10, 2023

Rio Tinto and H2 Green Steel , an industrial startup establishing large scale production of green steel, have signed a multi-year supply agreement for high-grade direct reduction iron ore (DRI) pellets from Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) operations. Earlier post.) This is a significant milestone for our project in Boden.

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MAY 2, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE), Natural Resources Canada and the Mexican Ministry of Energy have released the first-ever atlas mapping the potential carbon dioxide storage capacity in North America. Those technologies can also be used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) to produce hard-to-access oil, while storing the carbon dioxide.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

reported technical progress in its carbon capture program at the CO 2 Capture Technology Meeting sponsored by the US Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. Quebec, Canada. Codexis, Inc. Data showed CA performance has been improved by about two million fold over natural forms of the enzyme.

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JULY 4, 2009

are examining the possibility of using underground coal gasification (UCG) as a means to convert the coal into product gas at its recently acquired Drumheller, Alberta property. million for a $30-million deep coal gasification project being undertaken by a Calgary-based company. Nordic Oil and Gas Ltd. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The pyrg is only known to live in 13 small isolated springs around Thacker Pass in Humboldt County, an area where Canada-based Lithium Americas plans to develop a lithium mine. The sedimentary-clay deposit at Thacker Pass will use similar mining techniques to many coal deposits.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Province of Alberta (Canada) has executed a letter of intent with Swan Hills Synfuels to provide a C$285 million (US$273 million) grant in support of a underground coal gasification (UCG) project that will reduce emissions by capturing and sequestering more than 1.3 Swan Hills calls the process in situ coal gasification (ISCG).

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Our children and their children and their children's children will be paying that price.

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JULY 8, 2012

A new black carbon (BC) emissions inventory from China found BC emissions levels in 2007 of 1,957 Gg BC—higher than reported in earlier studies. The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Major emission areas are marked. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

has entered into an agreement with Clean Coal Ltd., an internationally based company whose technical team is based in the United Kingdom, for the development of an Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) project in Nova Scotia. Clean Coal Ltd. The United Kingdom Coal Authority has recently awarded five licences to Clean Coal Ltd.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest iron ore producers, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Baowu Steel Group (China’s largest steel producer) and Tsinghua University to develop and implement new methods to reduce carbon emissions and improve environmental performance across the steel value chain.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Use of coal, oil, and natural gas has to stop (in that order). tar sands) with a significantly higher carbon footprint than conventional oil, deserves a place at the front of the line. The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would enable development of oil sands from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S., but this dog will not hunt.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Schematic overview of the primary black-carbon emission sources and the processes that control. the distribution of black carbon in the atmosphere and determine its role in the climate system. Accounting for all of the ways black carbon can affect climate, it is believed to have a warming effect of about 1.1 Source: Bond et al.

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JULY 7, 2010

The projects are located in North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia, and Quebec, Canada (through collaboration with a company based in Lexington, Ky.). McGill University (Quebec, Canada). The work will be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). CCS Materials, Inc.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Canada Nickel Company Inc. has created a wholly-owned subsidiary, NetZero Metals, to begin the research and development of a processing facility that would be located in the Timmins, Ontario region with the goal of utilizing existing technologies to produce zero-carbon nickel, cobalt and iron products.

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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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JULY 6, 2011

US and Swiss researchers have modeled two climate scenarios with very high carbon emissions—above the A1F1 scenario, currently representing the upper bound of predicted carbon emissions in the IPCC work—to investigate the resulting climate change implications. —Sanderson et al. Benjamin M Sanderson et al.

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DECEMBER 10, 2016

Canada’s First Ministers (The Prime Minister of Canada and the provincial and territorial premiers) issued a joint communiqué and released the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change following the First Ministers’ Meeting. We will position Canada to contribute to global solutions that can be exported to the world.

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JULY 14, 2011

American Electric Power is terminating its cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy and placing its plans to advance carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology to commercial scale on hold, citing the current uncertain status of US climate policy and the continued weak economy as contributors to the decision.

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MARCH 2, 2019

The project is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs & Climate Policy, which has agreed to develop mechanisms and regulation that will help bring this new technology to full scale to support the low-carbon transition of the Dutch economy.

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The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don't need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

Carbon-netural synthetic hydrocarbon fuels. Green hydrogen, is produced through the electrolysis of water rather than from methane, a process that produces high levels of GHG emissions. Hydro-Québec’s Strategic Plan 2020–2024 outlines five applications for clean hydrogen: Ammonia and methanol production. Heating buildings.

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MAY 8, 2009

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer to work together on the development of one of the largest international carbon capture and storage demonstration projects to date.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

They also note that if the scale of analysis is that of the entire economy, the value commonly referenced for economy wide emissions is that oil sands constitute ~5% of Canada’s emissions. However, this only accounts for the processing that occurs in Canada and therefore excludes much of the refining and transport emissions.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

The Rentech MOU contemplates the production and purchase of approximately 250 million gallons per year of synthetic jet fuel derived principally from coal or petroleum coke, with the resultant carbon dioxide sequestered and the carbon footprint potentially further reduced by integrating biomass as a feedstock. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 21, 2011

TXE is engaged in developing a gasification facility in Beaumont, Texas that will convert petroleum coke, an oil refining waste product, into hydrogen and pipeline quality carbon dioxide. Zero Emission Energy Plants Ltd. ZEEP ) has entered into a definitive agreement with Eastman Chemical Company Investments, Inc.,

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Canada is an economic powerhouse that is powering away from its hewer of wood and drawer of water economy.

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For example, organizations such as the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Fund aspire to make the world carbon-neutral in 30 to 40 years. IEEE can also provide resources to its members so they can give talks to local schools about topics such as coal-burning power plants or solar energy. Carbon sequestration.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Northvolt AB, a Swedish sustainable battery corporate that’s exploring putting in store in Canada, gets a US$400-million funding from Ontario’s pension investmrent for presidency staff. The corporate, which already produces electric-vehicle batteries in Sweden, will worth the cash from Funding Control Corp.

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AUGUST 3, 2014

which designs, manufactures, operates and services carbonate fuel cell power plants, announced a broadening and deepening of its existing relationship with NRG Energy including a $35.0-million Projects must be located in the United States or pre-designated neighboring countries including Canada and some Caribbean nations. Technology.

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MAY 21, 2009

Major funding for the projects came from Industry Canada through Genome Canada and the Government of Alberta through Alberta Advanced Education and Technology. It is one of 6 similar Genome Centers across Canada funded in part by Industry Canada through Genome Canada. Genome Alberta announced C$25.2

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MARCH 5, 2013

This decision follows an investment decision in 2011 on a similar corridor in Alberta, Canada. million tons per annum) at its Shell Sarnia Manufacturing Centre in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Market forces rather than policies shape the energy system: oil and coal remain part of the energy mix but renewable energy also grows.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Led by the tiny Pacific island of the Federated States of Micronesia, a growing group of low-lying islands and other vulnerable countries are calling for fast action on the approximately 50% of global warming that is caused by pollutants other than carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). million lives lost each year due to black carbon soot.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

a provider of carbonate direct fuel cell power plants, has acquired the remaining shares of Versa Power Systems, Inc. Versa), a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) developer with research facilities in Littleton, Colorado, USA and Calgary, Canada. FuelCell Energy, Inc., Prior to this action, FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

World production of fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas—increased 2.9% Coal has led the growth in fossil fuel production. In 2000, coal provided 28% of the world’s fossil fuel energy production, compared with 45% for oil. By 2008, coal production represented a third of fossil energy production. in 2008 to reach 27.4

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will work together with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to deploy a Small Modular Reactor (SMR)—the BWRX-300—at the Darlington new nuclear site, the only site in Canada currently licensed for a new nuclear build. GEH SMR Technologies Canada, Ltd.,

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