Grants and Contributions
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In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
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Jun 1, 2020
For-profit organization
Ionic Solvents for Sustainable Bitumen Extraction: Developing, Optimizing and Prototyping a Continuous Process
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CalAgua has a patent-pending technology for deconstructing oilsands with ionic liquids. Our small-footprint bitumen extraction technology is scalable, environmentally sustainable and ideal for greenfield oil sands developments. It unlocks the vast but currently unrecoverable oil sand resource that is “too deep to mine, and too shallow to steam.” This revolutionary process separates sand from bitumen without the creation of tailings ponds or significant greenhouse gases and can be built to required production size.
Leveraging common processing steps, this project will optimize unit operations of i) a bitumen mining process and ii) an in-situ extraction process. The resulting data will guide further design of demonstration-sized plants.