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Comment: A look at why Canada’s energy sector isn’t all in when it comes to research & development

March 12, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

It’s easy to forget that the oil sands began as a research project. Syncrude Canada was founded 50 years ago as a research consortium that included the provincial and federal governments, and it was tasked with finding a way to turn the bituminous sands around Fort McMurray into a commercially viable project. But the country’s energy sector is […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: energy sector, Fort McMurray, Innovate Calgary, oil sands, R&D, research and development, Syncrude

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