Dr. Bin Xu is a man with a mission. As a peatland ecologist, he wants to increase awareness of the importance of peatlands and wetland ecosystems in our environment.

A key component of COSIA’s business strategy is to identify clean technologies from innovators – including start-up companies – that can be applied in the oil sands. But as we began working with newly-established businesses, we quickly realized that we needed to work with them in a different way as we did not have the expertise to incubate early stage technology ventures.

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Carbon fibre touted as the next material of the future.

Throughout these enormous and ongoing challenges, Canada’s oil sands continue, as ever, working together on environmental technologies and improving environmental performance.

From the time COSIA was formed, we looked for ways to quantify the value of the member-driven innovation that was passing through our doors.

The Oil Sands Monitoring (OSM) Program is North America’s largest environmental monitoring program. It uses data from 1,095 different sites.