Alberta’s climate-change fund tackles cattle and crop greenhouse gas emissions
EDMONTON - Alberta’s climate-change fund is supporting seven projects with $3.2 million aimed at curtailing greenhouse-gas emissions from biological sources like cattle.
The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp. (CCEMC) invests funds collected from carbon-emitting industries, such as power plants and oilsands facilities.
If large industrial emitters don’t reach emission-reduction targets, one option is to pay a levy of $15 per tonne into the CCEMC fund.
“The biological program is an important part of the CCEMC portfolio,” said managing director Kirk Andries.
“These diverse projects demonstrate the range of opportunities available to tackle (greenhouse-gas emissions) from biological sources, from reducing emissions in Alberta’s agricultural sector, to examining the potential for completely new sources of costly diluents in the oil and gas industry.”
Diluents are lighter viscosity products used to dilute bitumen so it can be transported in pipelines.
The CCEMC is providing funding in partnership with Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions.
Four of the seven projects tackle emissions in agriculture, including:
Measuring methane from beef cattle bred to eat low-residual feed;
Improving efficiency of open-range cattle production;
Developing “intelligent nanofertilizers” that improve nitrogen use by crops;
Developing best manure-management practices that include nitrogen inhibitors;
The other three projects include commercializing plant-oil based spray foam insulation; developing a geospatial map of carbon in wetlands to assess impacts from industry; and investigating the use of algae feedstock in producing diluent and hydrogen.
Alberta’s climate-change fund tackles cattle and crop greenhouse gas emissions
EDMONTON - Alberta’s climate-change fund is supporting seven projects with $3.2 million aimed at curtailing greenhouse-gas emissions from biological sources like cattle.
The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp. (CCEMC) invests funds collected from carbon-emitting industries, such as power plants and oilsands facilities.
If large industrial emitters don’t reach emission-reduction targets, one option is to pay a levy of $15 per tonne into the CCEMC fund.
“The biological program is an important part of the CCEMC portfolio,” said managing director Kirk Andries.
“These diverse projects demonstrate the range of opportunities available to tackle (greenhouse-gas emissions) from biological sources, from reducing emissions in Alberta’s agricultural sector, to examining the potential for completely new sources of costly diluents in the oil and gas industry.”
Diluents are lighter viscosity products used to dilute bitumen so it can be transported in pipelines.
The CCEMC is providing funding in partnership with Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions.
Four of the seven projects tackle emissions in agriculture, including:
Measuring methane from beef cattle bred to eat low-residual feed;
Improving efficiency of open-range cattle production;
Developing “intelligent nanofertilizers” that improve nitrogen use by crops;
Developing best manure-management practices that include nitrogen inhibitors;
The other three projects include commercializing plant-oil based spray foam insulation; developing a geospatial map of carbon in wetlands to assess impacts from industry; and investigating the use of algae feedstock in producing diluent and hydrogen.
Alberta’s climate-change fund tackles cattle and crop greenhouse gas emissions
