The finalists for the 2023 BC Cleantech Awards have been announced. Chosen from over 200 nominations, these individuals and organizations reflect the best of BC cleantech. The BC Cleantech Awards ceremony will be a virtual event this year with finalists and program partners gathering online on March 30th. Among the companies nominated in for the […]
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Six B.C. Companies Named to 2023 Global Cleantech 100
Canadian cleantech companies are making their mark on the world stage with 12 companies being named to the prestigious 2023 Global Cleantech 100 list, the 14th edition. This year the list of innovative and promising clean technology companies represents strong diversification of markets and sectors with representation from across Canada. But the West Coast stands […]
Chevron Leads $318 Million Investment In Carbon Capture Firm Svante
Vancouver’s Svante has raised a $318 million Series E fundraising round led by Chevron New Energies (CNE), a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. Since its founding in 2007, Svante has developed carbon capture and removal technology using structured adsorbent beds, known as filters. The funding will support Svante’s commercial-scale filter manufacturing facility in Vancouver, which […]
Green Growth: BC Makes Strong Showing in Future 50 List
There are at least 50 reasons to be optimistic about climate change in Canada. Corporate Knights this month revealed what it dubs the Future 50: the fifty fastest-growing green companies in the country. “Our objective was to identify outstanding Canadian entrepreneurs and companies that are gaining significant traction in the fight against carbon – with exciting […]
Seven B.C. Companies Named to 2022 Global Cleantech 100
Canadian cleantech companies are making their mark on the world stage with 13 companies being named to the prestigious 2022 Global Cleantech 100 list, the 13th edition. This year the list of innovative and promising clean technology companies represents strong diversification of markets and sectors with representation from across Canada. But the West Coast stands […]
Consortium Forms Carbon Capture Development Partnership
Svante, Enbridge, Cross River Infrastructure Partners and OTS have joined forces to explore commercial opportunities in North America to develop, build, own and operate carbon capture projects for carbon intensive industries. The consortium have inked a Memorandum of Understanding that establishes Cross Carbon Ventures (CCV), a new independent carbon capture development partnership. CCV will target […]
Svante Receives $25 Million To Centre Of Excellence For Carbon Capture
Federal Minister of Science, Innovation and Industry François-Philippe Champagne has announced a $25 million investment in Burnaby’s Svante today. Named after Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius, one of the first scientists to identify the atmospheric carbon-climate change connection, Svante captures carbon dioxide directly from industrial sources at less than half the capital cost of existing carbon removal […]