Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2014

Canada-based Petrostar Petroleum Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a joint venture with US-based Maverick Synfuels to facilitate the development and operation of GTL (gas-to-liquids technology) in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

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MARCH 2, 2019

Shell will join a consortium comprising Air Liquide, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals), Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam in an effort to build Europe’s first advanced waste-to-chemicals facility in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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MARCH 10, 2023

This includes a plan to purchase more than 3,500 fully electric last-mile delivery vehicles and the electrification of more than 60 terminals across Canada. The company will achieve this goal by electrifying 60% of its last-mile delivery vehicles and investing in alternative-fuels and low-carbon technologies. Richmond, B.C.;

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MAY 19, 2013

The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

a nationwide distributor of propane, fuel oil and related products and services, as well as a marketer of natural gas and electricity, is purchasing a 39% stake in Oberon Fuels, a San Diego, CA-based development-stage producer of low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel. Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.,

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AUGUST 24, 2016

a waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer, has obtained certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) system for the biomethanol production of its Enerkem Alberta Biofuels full-scale facility in Edmonton, Canada. Enerkem Inc., Click to enlarge.

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JULY 8, 2014

Maverick Synfuels and Petrostar Petroleum Corporation, a Canadian-based oil and gas exploration company, formed Maverick Northstar, Inc., a joint venture to facilitate the deployment and operation of gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology in the Canadian Provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Multi-year pilots demonstrated an ability to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions up to 40%, using hydrogen-injection technology and fuel source without impacting truck performance or range. Natural gas distributors can also use the green hydrogen to meet renewable content requirements. In Canada, 10.5%

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APRIL 6, 2022

energy projects in Canada and since then, Suncor has developed eight wind power projects in three provinces—Saskatchewan, Alberta and Ontario. By doing so, we use our strengths, competitive advantages and resources to drive shareholder returns and value over the long term and help us meet our emissions reduction targets.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Waste Management has made a strategic investment in Enerkem, a developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals from biomass and waste, as part of Enerkem’s new financing round. Click to enlarge. The closing of this new round of financing, which generated C$53.8

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

million) to a non-profit organization Bioénergie La Tuque (BELT) under a program called Technoclimat from Transition Énergétique Québec (TEQ) for a project to develop and demonstrate the potential of producing advanced biofuels from locally-sourced forestry waste in La Tuque, Quebec, Canada.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2017

Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) announced that new research on power-to-gas technology shows the technique holds the ability to significantly increase the use of intermittent renewable energy. to 35% by implementing a power-to-gas strategy. to 35% by implementing a power-to-gas strategy.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Scaling up the production of what we call green hydrogen is a priority for researchers around the world because it offers a carbon-free way to store electricity from any source. Nearly all commercial hydrogen is produced from natural gas. —Hidetoshi Matsumura, senior researcher at Fujitsu Consulting (Canada).

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APRIL 21, 2022

Planned feedstocks include a mix of waste fats, oils and greases , such as regionally-sourced used cooking oil, animal fats and non-edible crop oils. With HydroFlex, customers can convert low-value feedstocks to renewable fuels that qualify for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Global oil and gas major Shell has outlined how it will achieve its target to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, in step with society’s progress towards achieving net zero. Crucially, it includes emissions from the oil and gas that others produce and Shell then sells as products to customers, making the target comprehensive.

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MAY 7, 2010

a waste-to-biofuels and advanced chemicals company, has been selected by Alberta Energy to receive C$3.35 million) in funding from the Biorefining Commercialization and Market Development Program for its future Edmonton waste-to-biofuels facility, operated under the name of Enerkem GreenField Alberta Biofuels (EGAB). Enerkem 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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AUGUST 30, 2011

million in funding through the Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) initiative, and close to C$10 million from industry and other contributions. These partnerships will be supported with funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. This includes C$6.5

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted five new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) fuel pathway applications to the LCFS public comments website: two for biodiesel, one for renewable diesel, and two for ethanol. The carbon intensity (CI) for biodiesel from CO is 9.78. The baseline CI value for gasoline is 95.86 g CO 2 e/MJ.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

The running total is 122 manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations spanning Asia, Europe, and South and North America that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. GM’s new landfill-free facilities include: CAMI Assembly (Canada). Colmotores Assembly (Colombia). Joinville Engine (Brazil).

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JUNE 16, 2010

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 million) to five Alberta-based renewable energy projects including waste to biofuels and energy, concentrating solar power, biogas and home generation. million (US$36.6 million (US$1.76 City of Medicine Hat , C$3 million (US$2.9

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

A new study released by Global Forest Watch Canada finds that significant amounts of greenhouse gases are emitted through the disturbance and/or removal of biocarbon (trees, shrubs, peats), which overlay Alberta’s oil sands. These areas store 579 megatonnes (million tones) of biological carbon, mostly in peatlands. megatonnes.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Canada-based biomass-to-gasoline company CORE BioFuel Inc. based in Toronto, Canada. Osprey Capital will secure equity investment capital to fund the completion of construction engineering for CORE’s first wood-to-Green Gasoline plant to be built in Canada. Osprey Capital is very pleased to be working with the CORE team.

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JANUARY 21, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released the proposed scoping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Increased stringency (reducing carbon intensity 18% by 2030, up from 10% in 2020). Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 23, 2016

The government of British Columbia recently unveiled its Climate Leadership Plan , targeting the reduction of net annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 25 million tonnes below current forecasts by 2050 and the creation of up to 66,000 jobs over the next ten years. Carbon pricing mechanisms. Transportation.

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MAY 16, 2016

Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that as part of a more C$7-billion (US$5.4-billion), New low carbon fuel standards (LCFS) would require all liquid transportation fuels to reduce life-cycle carbon emissions by 5% by 2020. — Globe and Mail.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I live in Manitoba , a province of Canada where all but a tiny fraction of electricity is generated from the potential energy of water. The manufacture of solar panels involves the environmental costs from mining, waste disposal, and carbon emissions. The share rises to about 60 percent in Canada and 97 percent in Manitoba.

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MAY 30, 2016

and Canada-based Canfor Pulp Products Inc. Licella’s Cat-HTR technology may add significant value to Canfor Pulp’s kraft process by creating new products from Canfor Pulp’s waste streams. applying Cat-HTR to biomass); and Gippsland Gas Pty. biogenic natural gas resource). Australia-based Licella Fibre Fuels Pty Ltd.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 6, 2024

and Canada, with no-haggle pricing “where permitted.” Does choosing leather in an EV lower its carbon footprint? A group of leather suppliers recently made the case for real cow hides, claiming that it constitutes up-cycling of material from cattle reared for milk or meat that would otherwise be wasted.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is awarding Nsolv $13 million in grant funding to commercialize its field-tested, proprietary warm solvent technology for in situ heavy oil extraction without the use of steam. Nsolv’s patented technology uses warm solvent vapor to extract bitumen in situ.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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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JUNE 20, 2011

The project will divert approximately 550,000 metric tons of waste that otherwise would go to a landfill while producing jet fuel with lower emissions of greenhouse gases and local pollutants than petroleum-based fuels. Earlier post.). These offtakes are in addition to the facility producing all of its own energy to operate the facility.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Emissions will be further reduced by the use of an advanced dual-fuel marine engine with direct injection and exhaust gas treatment. These are used exclusively for the Volkswagen Group in a round trip scheme across the North Atlantic serving the markets of Canada, the USA, Mexico and Europe.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI) of Canada are working together to develop advanced gasification technology aimed at decreasing the cost and environmental impact of processing Alberta’s oil sands. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp.

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MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 Oil sands mines produce waste material called tailings; the waste materials have been difficult to reclaim and have grown larger than projected.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Almost one-quarter of global electricity could be generated from nuclear power by 2050, making a major contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Nuclear Energy Technology Roadmap, published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka.

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