Demo Day: Cleantech Innovation in Oil & Gas

June 16, 2022

11:00 – 12:30am MT

^{CRIN Vision:} CANADA IS THE GLOBAL LEADER IN PRODUCING CLEAN HYDROCARBONS FROM SOURCE TO END USE.

Agenda

Bella Biochar Corporation- Technology Showcase

Bella Biochar is truly a Cinderella Story as the only Canadian, commercial scale manufacturer of non-pyrolytic, Organically Certified, premium quality biochar, produced from landfill diverted biomass. Bella Biochar’s CEO/Founder Jodi Formosi gained respect for the environment and agriculture at a young age, as the granddaughter of European Peasant Farmers. When she combined that respect with her passion as a Pollution Solution Consultant, Jodi realized the gap in the World Market for premium quality biochar and Bio Carbon Capture and Storage. She also recognized the need for Environmentally and Socially Responsible Governance of waste wood biomass, in lieu of the unnecessary and irresponsible way it had historically been landfilled and/or left to decay. As a result, in April, 2019 Bella Biochar was incorporated.

Determined to build a company on scientifically substantiated research and development, in 2020 Bella became a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada by establishing a Collaborative Industry Partnership with the University of Western Ontario. The first lesson learned was that not all biochar is created equally. The raw material base used and the temperature that the material is heated in and then cooled at, changes the chemical composition of the biochar. The Bella Team then proceeded to complete the rigorous research and development necessary to determine optimal feedstock intake and manufacturing protocols, while using a process temperature double that of pyrolytic biochar. Ultimately, Bella succeeded at producing a cleaner, purer, biochar with consistently high carbon content along with superior porosity and adsorption properties compared to those of Activated Carbon. Upon Organic Certification, Bella Biochar began pioneering the premium quality Biochar Market in Canada.

Bella’s second goal of proving Climate Resilience was realized by completing a Life-Cycle Analysis in 2021. For every metric tonne of Bella Biochar produced, approximately 3 metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide are removed from the atmosphere and remain so for at least 1000 years. Accordingly, Bella Biochar Corporation aligns with the Paris Agreement, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 2, 3, 6, 9, 12,13, 14, 15. Today, Bella is honoured to be the first corporation in Canada and the first female owned/operated/founded corporation in the world, to be accredited by Puro.earth as a Certified Carbon Removal Supplier. Bella proudly identifies as “Canada’s Carbon Queen” and “Planet Earth’s Net Zero Partner”.

Jodi Formosi, CEO/Founder/Directors

jodi@bellbiochar.com

Delta Remediation Inc. – Technology Showcase 

Delta Remediation is a company headquartered in Acheson, Alberta Canada. Delta was incorporated in 2014 by its president Robert Lacey. Its leadership structure consists of Robert Lacey, President and James Ehizojie, Vice President as operational management. Delta offers a wide array of innovative and proven technologies for remediation of hydrocarbon and salt contamination in soil and water. Applied both in-situ (in-place) or ex-situ (excavated and treated on site), our naturally occurring microbial consortiums effectively and safely remediate these various contaminants, all while keeping the soil in place.

Robert Lacey, President

rlacey@deltaremediation.com

Compound Connect – Technology Showcase

Sam Swanson, CEO

sam@compoundconnect.ca

Compound Connect improves the tools and technologies used in environmental research, recycling and quality control processes by applying machine learning processes to better analyze and interpret datasets – helping researchers, recyclers, and other industry participants identify hydrocarbon derived products in order to reduce pollution. Compound Connect received a grant award for “Improving technology for identifying microplastics with machine learning”, with the validation results published in "Machine Learning of polymer types from the spectral signature of Raman spectroscopy microplastics data". Compound Connect received its first round of seed funding from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and is seeking follow up funding for market realization.

ApoSys Technologies Inc. – Technology Showcase

Oliver Wang, CEO

Oliver.wang@aposystech.com

ApoSys is a technology company incorporated in Ontario, Canada. We started with an idea and a highly talented team to develop breakthrough mapping and positioning technologies for the DRIVERLESS age. Our underground global positioning systems (UGPS) provide a centimeter-level earth-based three-dimensional (3D) High-Definition (HD) mapping and positioning for tracking, navigation and planning, and autonomous driving at underground or GPS-deprived areas.

ApoSys was co-founded by Steven Li and Oliver Wang. Steven, CTO, is a Ph.D. student in Physics and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, and Oliver, CEO, is an engineer with a passion and vision for product and business. The company has grown from two founding engineers with an idea to a dynamic team with an advanced technology portfolio to support the long-term vision and short-term product plan to generate various revenue streams and gain trust from customers.

Flyscan Systems Inc. – Technology Showcase

Jerome Maranda, Financial Director

jmaranda@flyscan.com

Flyscan Systems is the first company in the world to bring to market an airborne software and sensor suite to automate functions performed today by human observers during the mandated visual inspections of pipeline Right-of-Ways. Using machine-learning software that will fuse data coming from numerous sensors like a custom-made Ultraviolet laser tuned to detect benzene, hyperspectral cameras, visual light cameras and ground-mapping lidars, Flyscan will enable pipeline operators and oil producers to perform early detection of small leak, minimizing remediation costs and environmental damage, as well as detecting pipeline threats in the ROW like the presence of machinery, freshly moved earth, erosion and geo-hazards. Flyscan is jointly developing, testing and fielding new technologies with its development partner and strategic investor Enbridge Pipelines, and we are financially backed by SDTC and BDC's Cleantech Fund.

Carbon Chit Inc.– Technology Showcase

Tim Beentjes, CEO - Founder

info@carbonchits.com

Carbon Chit Inc. (CCI) is democratizing climate change through the first Common Carbon Marketplace for personal carbon credits. Anyone can download CCI’s free mobile Chit app to earn money by reducing their personal transportation emissions, and companies can use our web application to get ‘free’ personal carbon credits. We are building the free-market solution to climate change by enabling individuals and businesses to monetize their carbon emissions reductions.

GeoGen Technologies – Technology Showcase

Matt Hogg, Co-founder and CEO

matthogg@geogen.com

GeoGen has reimagined geothermal energy to repurpose wells to lower the emissions and renew the communities in which they were originally drilled. GeoGen is reducing the environmental impact of classic energy production by upcycling inactive wells to produce 100% renewable electricity. We are on the front lines of the energy transition, lowering emissions in the most carbon intensive power grids in Canada. Our patent-pending solution involves sealing off old wells to create a closed loop while still allowing for renewable geothermal energy to be harvested. Unlike other geothermal companies, there is no drilling, so projects are significantly less expensive. GeoGen is the rooftop solar of geothermal. The Energy Transition is happening and some of the energy companies of yesterday want to become the energy companies of tomorrow. GeoGen has the technology to make that happen.

Drift Resource Technologies – Technology Showcase

David Scott Morton, CEO

scott@driftresourcetechnologies.com

Drift is a carbon technology firm that has developed a net-zero process to extract bitumen that is too deep to mine and too shallow for thermal methods. Our technology allows access to an untapped resource (“The Middle”) without the environmental impacts associated with existing oil sands operations.

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For more information, please contact:

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Maike Althaus, Executive Director

maike@canadaclean.tech

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Berta Gomez, CRIN

bgomez@cleanresourceinnovation.com

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