Environment Articles
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Farmers across Canada may soon be able to participate in a carbon-credit offset program under Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions legislation that is currently available only to Alberta growers.Last December, Canada as well as the planet’s largest GHG...[READ MORE] -
An Ontario university start-up has big plans to help Canadian cities deal with waste management woes, ease farmers’ concerns over rising input costs and feed the world along the way. Cambridge, Ontario-based Lystek International Inc. has a technology...[READ MORE] -
Raise your glasses, here’s to Alberta! This province deserves some credit, after all. It is overlooked, under-appreciated and all too often doesn’t even get the lip service it is due in national or international circles for its innovative efforts to...[READ MORE] -
To date, AGRI-TREND Aggregation has sold approximately 2.3 million tonnes of carbon offsets under the tillage protocol and paid Alberta farmers more than $23 million. This opportunity continues on an annual basis for anyone in Alberta not yet...[READ MORE] -
AGRI-TREND Aggregation Inc. (ATAI) is very pleased to announce another significant transaction of Carbon Offsets under Alberta Green House Gas regulations. These tonnes were generated under the Tillage Management Protocol. These transactions...[READ MORE] -
In 2007, the newly legislated “Specified Gas Emitters Regulation” required Alberta facilities that emit more than 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases a year to reduce emissions intensity by 12 per cent. Facilities that could not meet the emission...[READ MORE] -
The Government of Alberta is allowing producers to claim Carbon Offsets back to 2002 ...UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2012. This change to the Alberta Offset System (AOS) means that if you are eligible to claim offsets generated over the last ten years – you...[READ MORE] -
Alberta Government Approves another Farm Friendly Protocol –Nitrous Oxide Emission Reduction Protocol (NERP) Projects that are implemented according to this protocol generate carbon offsets by switching to an integrated set of Beneficial Nitrogen...[READ MORE] -
In the last agAdvance, our clients were informed of a material change to the Alberta Offset System (AOS). This is so important that we felt it should be repeated as follows:[READ MORE] -
Every once in a while, I get a chance to slow down and think a bit about some of the information that’s coming at us in ever increasing volumes and intensities. Nitrogen management, nitrous oxide emissions and the carbon economy are some of the...[READ MORE] -
The theme of this issue of The agAdvance, "The Decade Ahead", is certainly appropriate for the Carbon Offsets business and all that this new industry sector encompasses. For this discussion, I would like to take the opportunity to discuss the Ag...[READ MORE] -
The Government of Saskatchewan has made public its plans for the creation of a second regulated jurisdiction for GreenHouse Gas (GHG) Emissions in Canada. Bill 126 is already well into the legislative process and the following is the timing guideline...[READ MORE] -
Carbon Cheques…just in time for spring!As this issue of The agAdvance hits the farm kitchen table, many farmers will also be getting another piece of mail…another cheque - from the 5th block of Carbon credits transacted by Agri-Trend Aggregation Inc...[READ MORE] -
One of many goals we have at Agri- Trend Aggregation Inc. (ATAI) is to assist clients with current and on-going education regarding the Offset System. This goal is part of our belief that complete transparency is the key to our partnership success in...[READ MORE] -
The Government of Saskatchewan introduced The Management and Reduction of Greenhouse Gases Act (MRGA) in the provincial legislature on May 11, 2009. This pending new legislation will establish a made-in-Saskatchewan plan for reducing greenhouse gas...[READ MORE] -
Whatever momentum that Carbon Offsets have today in Canada has been largely created by the Climate Change and Emissions Management Act of Alberta – legislation which was enacted in July, 2007. As an Aggregator of Offsets working within and on behalf...[READ MORE] -
As of fall 2008, Alberta is the only regulated jurisdiction in Canada with a functioning Carbon Offset system. Agri-Trend Aggregation Inc. (ATAI) has been working within the Alberta system since its inception, and returned $8.75 per carbon dioxide...[READ MORE]
