Sudbury project receives $1.6M to tackle greenhouse gas emissions
SUDBURY, ON, March 23, 2018 /CNW/ - Today at Laurentian University, the Ontario government announced $798,000 in funding from the TargetGHG program for the Landscape Carbon Accumulation Research (L-CARE) project. The joint initiative will also receive funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), a TargetGHG partner, bringing the total to $1.6M in government support of research aimed at tackling the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. The TargetGHG program is funded by the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science (MRIS) and administered by Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).
"Supporting the efforts of large industries in their quest to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions is an important part of our government's Climate Change Action Plan," says Reza Moridi, Minister of Research, Innovation and Science. "With the help of our province's innovative cleantech companies, the TargetGHG program will help build a prosperous, low carbon economy and create a cleaner, more sustainable future for Ontario."
The TargetGHG program will help Ontario meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets by encouraging large industrial plants to adopt leading-edge technology and supporting Ontario's entrepreneurs in developing creative new solutions in the clean-tech sector by funding innovative projects.
"Taking steps to reduce the impacts of greenhouse gases and air pollution on our climate and environment is a key priority in Canada," says Dr. Marc Fortin, Vice-President, Research Partnerships, NSERC. "NSERC is proud to partner with Ontario Centres of Excellence to connect Canada's top researchers and companies to develop innovative clean technologies that will advance environmental sustainability in Canada and improve the health and quality of life of Canadians."
L-CARE is a part of the TargetGHG Stream 2 Collaborative R&D Program, which supports industry-academic collaborative research and development projects. The projects in this stream will address Ontario's 2020-2030 targets for GHG emission reduction and provide significant economic benefits to Ontario (jobs, revenues, etc.).
The L-CARE project focuses on management of brownfield and other industrially-impacted landscapes and will examine options to manage reclamation as part of a carbon sequestration strategy in relation to extensive hard-rock mining, looking at treatment and management strategies across mine tailings environments and three main ecosystem types: upland, wetland, and aquatic. Partners on this project include Laurentian University, Vale Canada Limited, Glencore's Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations (Sudbury INO), and the City of Greater Sudbury, as well as co-investigators and collaborators—McMaster University, Trent University, Queen's University, Université de Sherbrooke, and Université du Québec à Montréal, and collaborators from Cambridge University, Cornell University, The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, and the Canadian Forest Service.
"Environmental sustainability is one of our greatest challenges, both now and in the future," says Dr. Tom Corr, President and CEO, OCE. "OCE is proud to be a part of Ontario's commitment to cleantech research and innovation by supporting provincial programs like TargetGHG."
For more information about the TargetGHG program, please visit http://oce-ontario.org.
About Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Inc.
OCE drives the commercialization of cutting-edge research across key market sectors to build the economy of tomorrow and secure Ontario's global competitiveness. In doing this, OCE fosters the training and development of the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs and is a key partner with Ontario's industry, universities, colleges, research hospitals, investors and governments. A champion of leading-edge technologies, best practices and research, OCE invests in sectors such as advanced health, digital media and information communications, advanced manufacturing and materials, and cleantech including energy, environment and water. OCE is a key partner in delivering Ontario's Innovation Agenda as a member of the province's Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs (ONE). Funded by the Government of Ontario, the ONE is made up of regional and sector-focused organizations and helps Ontario-based entrepreneurs rapidly grow their company and create jobs.
About NSERC
NSERC invests over $1.2 billion each year in natural sciences and engineering research in Canada. Our investments deliver discoveries – valuable world-firsts in knowledge claimed by a brain trust of over 11,000 professors. Our investments enable partnerships and collaborations that connect industry with discoveries and the people behind them. Researcher-industry partnerships established by NSERC help inform research & development and solve scale-up challenges. NSERC also provides scholarships and hands-on training experience for more than 30,000 post-secondary students and post-doctoral fellows. These young researchers will be the next generation of science and engineering leaders in Canada.
SOURCE Ontario Centres of Excellence Inc.
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