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Energy Power Supply Analysis And Its Environmental Impacts For A Community Located In The North West Of Esmeraldas Province
No full textWaste Minimization Plan For The Oil Development And Production Activities In The Peruvian Amazon
No full textUnleashing Local Capital In Greening Alberta’s Grid: An Evaluation Of A Co-operative Investment Model To Stimulate Renewable Energy Development In Support Of Alberta’s Climate Leadership
No full textNever before has a co-operative business model been attempted in Alberta in stimulating community economic development using renewable electricity generation and local capital. Given Alberta’s depressed power prices and economy, and the political challenges of an energy transition, the success of a renewable energy investment co-operative is unknown. The Alberta Solar Co-op (ASC) was incorporated as an Opportunity Development Co-operative in February, 2016, to provide Albertans direct investment opportunities in Alberta’s renewable energy future. The co-op model is well suited for sustainable development, including electricity. While many jurisdictions world-wide have demonstrated this, Alberta lags. The ASC is developing Alberta’s first community owned, 2-megawatt solar farm. This study finds that government support in the form of a 90/megawatt-hour may provide member-investors a positive financial return on their investment – and provincial and municipal governments, a social, economic, and environmental return on theirs
Producing Hydrogen For Use In Alberta's Oil Sands Through Pyrolysis Of Biomass: A Feasibility Study
No full textThis research paper examines the potential to produce hydrogen, for use in the upgrading of Alberta bitumen, using bio-oil generated from the fast pyrolysis of biomass. The feasibility of the process is examined from technical, environmental, and economic perspectives. From each of these perspectives, the proposed process is compared to the common hydrogen-production process of steam methane reforming of natural gas. Through the analysis of the two processes in relation to their technical, environmental, and economic characteristics, this study concluded that using biomass as a feedstock for hydrogen production in Alberta’s oil sands is technically feasible, has valuable environmental benefits in terms of greenhouse gas emissions avoidance, reduces dependency on natural gas as a feedstock and frees up the resource for more efficient uses, and may be financially realistic; the overall conclusion being that the technology has the potential to effectively address the needs of the oil sands industry
Flare Gas Analysis, Uses And Regulatory Impediments: An Analysis For Enerplus
No full textBalancing sustainability initiatives amongst pressures to satisfy shareholder and stakeholder expectations juxtaposes corporate, financial, environmental and regulatory priorities. My research question concerned the opportunities existing for Enerplus to reduce its flaring of produced gas. From this, my research methodologies addressed the corporations’ ability to optimize produced wellhead gas. Undertaking a thorough technology review, I studied and synthesized The Energy and Environmental Research Center’s Alternative Uses For Associated Gas in the context of Enerplus’ Bakken operations. Regulatory implications were addressed, per the organization’s multiple operating jurisdictions. Additionally, my research underscored Enerplus’ environmental, technological, operational and financial exposures, thereby yielding a holistic associated gas management strategy that focused on the utilization of produced methane with minimal pre-processing. Consulting numerous Bakken-focused technology and solutions providers, as well as various industry-based Subject Matter Experts, my findings encompass technology and process recovery procedures for flare management, which Enerplus may choose to further review and analyze
General Methodology For Evaluation Of Electrical Demand-side Management Programs In Latin America
No full textBiodigester And Biocell Feasibility Study A Sustainable Approach For Waste Management For The Island Of San Cristobal, Galapagos, Ecuador
No full textThe focus of this project is the island of San Cristobal, Galapagos, Ecuador, and the analysis of two types of solid waste management technologies, an anaerobic digester or a biocell,as a means to improving the Island’s management of landfilled and organic waste, and the potential to generate sustainable energy. This project examines the technological and economic feasibility of three waste management scenarios. Moreover, the three pillars of sustainability`environmental, social, and economic`are fundamental in assessing benefits and stresses that the technologies may cause to the Island’s already sensitive and endemic ecosystems. Various academic and institutional case studies were used to evaluate each individual technology and its potential fit to the context of San Cristobal. Literature related to the Island’s waste management situation, waste characterization, existing environmental
concerns, and construction costs had to be supplemented by relevant Ecuadorean, Latin American, and North American research. According to my evaluation, the most feasible technology for the Island is the anaerobic digester technology. Not only does this technology have the potential to generate renewable energy in the form of biogas as a form of energy, and compost as a benefit to the agricultural sector, but it also can provide multiple environmental and socio`economic benefits. Socio`economic benefits are associated with the creation of new jobs on the Island, the potential to sell carbon credit, but also monetary gains that the waste management facility can obtain from the technologies generation of biogas and compost. Environmental benefits include a sequestration of greenhouse gases, prevention of leachate contamination of water sources, and the potential to improve the fertility of the Island’s agricultural soils. Altogether, none of the technologies has the complete solution to all of the Island’s waste management issues, this study informs, guides, and gives options to policymakers and potential investors who consider altering or improving San Cristobal’s municipal solid waste management program
Role Of Stakeholder Engagement In Corporate Change In North America’s Oil And Gas Industry
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to investigate what events have occurred over the past 50 years to motivate North America’s oil and gas companies to incorporate environmental, social and governance factors within their operations, including how shareholder engagement is being used as a tool to understand investor demands and drive ESG related behavior. The foundation of the paper is set through a comprehensive literature review of the major environmental, social and economic factors that have led to changing public and investor perceptions and driven corporate change. Trends in shareholder resolutions and proxy voting were analyzed and the resulting behavior of two oil and gas companies
compared in order to highlight key ESG-related trends and provide commendations for identifying and mitigating the risks associated with both daily operations and future sustainability challenges. Future research might include additional case studies as well as analyzing the economics associated with changes in ESG-related behavior
Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs) And Firm Level Response: Suncor’s Sustainability Reporting And Disclosure Strategy
No full textA single case study design was used to discover any strategic implications that the Sustainable Development Goals may have on Suncor Energy’s sustainability and reporting strategy. A literature review exploring how the SDGs impact the private sector revealed prominent themes relating to the concepts of increasing expectations of private sector SDG alignment, private sector SDG alignment driving value creation, and SDG alignment within the private sector mitigating risk. Data was collected through participant-observer and secondary data techniques, and the analysis of the data occurred through an iterative process that involved coding and investigation of thematic areas. This research discovered that critical elements utilized in Suncor Energy’s strategy involving sustainability reporting standards and frameworks, sustainability assessments, and ESG ratings all experienced significant changes in direct response to the SDGs. The SDG related changes across the critical elements identified occurred more rapidly and were of greater significance than Suncor Energy anticipated