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ST. JOHN S, NL, May 5, 2021
/CNW/ - The Government of Canada is driving innovation in the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore oil and gas industry to accelerate emissions reduction and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Today, the Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O Regan Jr., with Dave Finn, CEO of Petroleum Research Newfoundland and Labrador (PRNL), announced project recipients of the Emissions Reduction Fund s Offshore Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) program.
Sixteen offshore RD&D projects will receive a total of $24.4 million to innovate emissions reduction technology in the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore oil and gas industry. Funded by Natural Resources Canada and managed by PRNL, the projects include companies that facilitate research, technology development and innovation for Canada s offshore. They explore ways to decarbonize offshore operations, including drilling, production and transportation.
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2) from offshore oil and gas exhaust streams.
MOFs are a porous material that can be designed at the atomic level for different applications and tuned by changing the size, shape and surface chemistry.
Dr. Michael Katz is an associate professor with the Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science.
He has been awarded $655,900 from the offshore research, development and demonstration (RD&D) component of Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan) Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) to develop a small-scale filtration system to separate CO
2 from a simulated exhaust stream.
Petroleum Research Newfoundland and Labrador (PRNL) is managing and executing the $33 million offshore RD&D component of the ERF program, which supports projects that advance solutions to decarbonize Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore industry.
From: Natural Resources Canada
Today, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan Jr., Minister of Natural Resources, announced that the $750-million Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) onshore program is on track to cut, in its first year, methane emissions equivalent to 3.1 megatonnes of carbon dioxide, roughly equal to removing 674,000 cars from the road, highlighting encouraging results from the program’s first intake.
Reducing emissions from methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases, is a key part of Canada’s strengthened climate plan and its commitment to achieving net zero by 2050, ensuring a healthy economy and a healthy environment for Canada. By acting now, Canada is building a clean energy future that powers economic growth, creates good jobs and dramatically reduces our greenhouse gas emissions.
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April 7, 2021
For millennia, people have perceived the ocean as endlessly bountiful. Owned by none. Teeming with life. Ours for the taking.
But during the past couple of decades, that narrative of inexhaustibility has been upended. The biggest fish are fished out. Sharks are becoming rare. Many marine mammals are on the brink. Even plankton populations are shifting and thinning out.
And at the same time, the very chemistry of the global ocean is changing, driven by the growing carbon load in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels. The ocean is warming up, losing its oxygen and acidifying.