CALGARY – In its first round of funding, Carbon Management Canada awarded $8.7 million to Canadian university researchers working on 17 projects.
Funded projects are varied and range from development of more carbon efficient ways to recover bitumen to studying the storage of CO2 in underground reservoir to developing a practical international regulatory framework for carbon management. More exotic microbial and geoengineering technologies are also being examined as are the social drivers impacting policy, innovation and large-scale technology deployments.
“We are very excited by the work happening across Canada and also here on campus. It furthers our mandate to fund bold, innovative research to develop scalable technologies and policy to actually reduce carbon emissions in the fossil fuel industry,” says Steve Larter, CMC scientific director.
CMC, a network of close to 100 researchers at 22 universities that funds research into technologies and policies to help reduce carbon emissions upstream in the fossil fuel industry, has just issued a second call for proposals.