New Alberta Climate Change Policies

Alberta’s government released the new environmental policy on Monday. A levy will be introduced to all greenhouse gas emissions starting in 2017. This is the first announcement that Alberta Environment has made about the policy change before the ‪#‎COP21‬...

Halfway There

The steps we are taking towards a more sustainable future are comparable to a walking pace. We will get to the end goal eventually, which is the use of clean energy on a mass scale, but it will take a long time. It is imperative to have an end goal in mind, but we...

Near Future Smoke Tax?

The Alberta Government is creating new climate change policy which will be released before the UN Climate Change Conference in December. Presently there is a carbon levy on industrial carbon emitters which is sitting at a $15/tonne fee companies must pay. By 2017 this...

Moving Day!

This was an exciting week for all of us at IRSI. After months of hard work our Ulysses system is completed. This past Monday we have moved the Ulysses out of the fabrication shop! At 60 feet long, moving the Ulysses was no easy task. It took two cranes to lift the...