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Now Available - Shareable Digestate Brochures

In March, the CBA released the Canadian Digestate Management Guide, the first of its kind. The guide summarizes best management practices for using digestate as a fertilizer or soil amendment in the Canadian context. The CBA has also developed two complimentary pamphlets that provide a high-level summary of the guide. The Digestate 101 brochure and Digestate Best Management Practices brochure are available at farmingbiogas.ca. We encourage you to share these brochures with your networks who are interested in learning more about digestate.

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Funding Opportunity – Agricultural Clean Technology Program Adoption Stream

Applications for the Adoption Stream under the Agricultural Clean Technology Program will be accepted from June 1 to June 22 or until demand exceeds available funding. The program aims to create an enabling environment for the development and adoption of clean technology that will help drive the changes required to achieve a low-carbon economy and promote sustainable growth in Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sector. The Adoption Stream supports the purchase and installation of commercially available clean technology or equipment upgrades that will reduce greenhouse gas (GHG), fertilizer and methane emissions. The new intake will be more ambitious in terms of reducing GHG emissions and will also emphasize support for measurable fertilizer and methane emission reductions in line with Government of Canada targets.

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Power from poop: Wastewater upgrades in Calgary to harness biogas

The City of Calgary says it’s investing more than $1 billion to upgrade its largest water treatment plant to make the facility self-sufficient in terms of electricity. The Bonnybrook Wastewater Treatment Plant is currently undergoing work to upgrade the facility to improve its capacity as well as installing a system that will help save on utility costs and greenhouse gas emissions. The new system will add a 4.6-megawatt gas turbine and 0.6-megawatt steam turbine, both of which will use biogas, a byproduct of wastewater treatment, for power generation and heating.

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Making Budget 2023 Work for Biogas & RNG

With the release of the 2022 Fall Economic Statement in November, all eyes are on Budget 2023 to see how Finance Canada will respond to the American Inflation Reduction Act and finalize incentives for clean technologies.

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