Event Recap: Canada Climate Week Xchange Day 1

Event 1: Canada Cleantech Showcase

CRIN was honoured to host a full day of events on Monday, November 24, as part of Canada Climate Week Xchange.

The day launched with Canada Cleantech Showcase: Scalable Solutions for Decarbonization, including presentations from two innovators: Kinitics Automation and Acceleware.

Dean Pick, President of Kinitics Automation, outlined its CRIN-supported project and the KVA38, an electric, spring-loaded valve actuator designed to replace methane-venting pneumatic devices at production well sites. The actuators are based on shape memory alloy technology. Kinitics is now exporting its products into the U.S. and has established its first sales office in Tulsa.

Acceleware develops highly scalable electromagnetic heating solutions for industrial process heat to economically electrify and decarbonize processes previously considered difficult to abate, Chief Operating Officer Mike Tourigny noted.

Pick and Tourigny participated in a panel discussion about decarbonization, joined by Scott Volk, CRIN President and Director of Emissions & Innovation at Tourmaline, Justin Riemer, CEO of Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA), and Patrick McDonald, Assistant Deputy Minister, Air, Climate and Clean Technology, Alberta Environment and Protected Areas.

Discussion topics included Tourmaline’s approach to decarbonization, including carbon capture and methane mitigation, collaboration opportunities for innovation, scaling Canadian cleantech solutions, barriers to commercialization, and how Alberta can be a model for collaboration for other jurisdictions.

Volk said Alberta’s ecosystem that supports clean technologies is “really necessary” for adopters like Tourmaline.

“When we’re focusing on innovation and how to have these clean technologies available to us, when we’re working together and leveraging each other’s funds, we can succeed so much easier by testing a lot of things really quickly and also getting a lot of things to commercialization quickly.”

Event 2: OptiSeis Panel discussion

CRIN’s second event of the day kicked off with a panel discussion hosted by OptiSeis Solutions: Developing EcoSeis™ – Collaborating Towards Success.

OptiSeis Solutions CEO Andrea Crook, Emissions Reduction Alberta CEO Justin Riemer, Greenfire Resources Geophysics Manager Emily Duncan, and John Parkin, former Senior Manager: Geophysical Services for Cenovus, discussed the successful development of OptiSeis’ EcoSeis™ technology through early stage, initial field trials, and the final demonstration project.

The discussion touched on topics including changes in the policy landscape and regulatory uncertainty, building trust with an industry partner, ERA’s funding criteria, and what it takes for a technology to be commercially successful.

Event 3: Innovators in Action

The day of clean tech innovation was capped off with a series of technology showcases from CRIN members:

• Methane Elimination Made Simple: The Kathairos Solution for Scalable Emissions Reduction

• Innotech Alberta: A Low Energy Intensity In-Situ Recovery Technology - Warm DME Injection Gravity Drainage Bitumen Production

• Cvictus: Enhanced Hydrogen Recovery - Turning Coal from a Source to a Sink

• EKONA: Our Journey to Develop Low-Cost, Clean Hydrogen from Methane Pyrolysis

• LCO Technologies: Methane Reductions in Oil & Gas

• Arolytics AroIQ: AI-Powered Emissions Intelligence