The City of Edmonton has broken ground on the world’s first large-scale facility for turning residential trash into biofuels.  When the $80-million plant opens in 2011, it will convert some 100,000 tonnes of garbage a year into 36 million litres of methanol and ethanol, helping the city divert some 90 per cent of waste from [...]

Yesterday,  Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) announced its 18th round of funding for Canadian clean technology demonstration projects. Canadian entrepreneurs and technology developers with new technologies and a compelling business case are encouraged to submit Statements of Interests to the SD Tech Fund™ from September 1 to October 20th, 2010.
“SDTC is helping companies commercialize their [...]

NRC IRAP and WADE Canada invite you to participate in a clean energy technology
mission to the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, January 17 to 20, 2011.
Since its inception in 2008, World Future Energy Summit has evolved as the world’s
foremost and must-attend annual meeting for the renewable energy and environment
industry.
Climate change is a complex [...]

WADE Canada is now accepting business, government and industry association advertisements for our event publication. Don’t miss out on this extraordinary opportunity to market your products and services at this premier event.
The official launch of the 2010 Guide will be at the World Energy Congress in Montreal in September. Thereafter, this guide will be circulated [...]

[ September 16, 2010; 12:00 am to 5:00 pm. ]

ACAMP is proud to present the ACAMP Seminar Series, a series of quarterly technology commercialization events aimed at bringing together Alberta’s innovation community. Designed, hosted, and launched in 2009 by ACAMP, this innovative seminar series covers the following four themes: Cleantech, Agriculture and Forestry, Health and Medical, and Traditional Energy.
Seminar Focus: CleanTech
Thursday, Septermber 16, 2010
8 [...]

[ September 17, 2010 to September 18, 2010. ]
Lead. Follow. Or Get out of the way!
REGISTRATION is now open for the 2010 Clean-tech Conference, Sept 17/18th: Lacombe Workshops and Red Deer Convention. Note a venue change for the convention rom Red Deer College to the Capri Convention Hotel is pending to accommodate the 500 anticipated.

Join Alberta’s clean-tech change agents: entrepreneurs and new enterprises, [...]

[ October 20, 2010 to October 21, 2010. ]
Carbon emissions are not just the concern of environmental, health and safety staff; they are an important matter for senior management, equity analysts, project financiers, insurers, new financial players, and mainstream institutional investors.

This conference will explore the financial implications of a low carbon economy and provide an opportunity for a meaningful discussion between industry, government [...]

Novozymes of Denmark and Lignol Energy Corporation of Burnaby, BC, sign a research and development agreement to make biofuel from cellulosic feedstock such as wood chips and forestry residue. The goal is to develop a process for making biofuel from forestry waste at a production cost down to $2 per gallon, a price competitive with gasoline and corn [...]

National Research Council Canada offers approximately $5 million through the National Bioproducts Program and NRC-IMB to project in Nova Scotia that will test the creation of biofuels from algae.  (National Research Council News Release, 04.06.10)

Mitsubisshi plans to bring in its i-MiEV EV cars for testing to Quebec by the end of the year. 50 of them are designated for Hydro Quebec and will run all winter. (The Globe and Mail article, 02.06.10)