Innovation Anthology #82: Executive Director, Sustainable Production and Quality Food for Health
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize recognizes the work done internationally to promote awareness of global warming and what action must take place.
The award is split between former American Vice President Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change whose report is central to Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Among the many scientists who contributed to the IPCC report are three Albertans who are now being recognized as Nobel Laureates.
They are Dr. David Keith at the University of Calgary, Dr. Stefan Bachu of the Geological Survey of Alberta. And the third is Dr. Bill Gunter of the Alberta Research. He pioneered the science for underground storage of carbon dioxide to mitigate climate change.
DR. BILL GUNTER: Every country could use it. In the sense that a molecule of CO2 can travel the world, no country owns it. And so it doesn’t matter so much where it’s done. It’s where it’s done best and where its done inexpensively, so in that sense, Alberta is one of the places in the world, because of our oil and gas industry and huge Alberta basin, where it makes a lot of sense to do it on an international scale.
Thanks today to The Alberta Research Council.
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY, I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
Guest
Cornelia Kreplin,,
Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, cornelia.krepln@albertainnovates.ca
Sponsor
Alberta Research Council
Established as the first provincial research organization in Canada, the Alberta Research Council is 85 years old. The Alberta Research Council (ARC) develops and commercializes technologies to give customers a competitive advantage. A leader in innovation, ARC provides solutions globally to the energy, life sciences, agriculture, environment, forestry and manufacturing sectors.
ARC performs about five per cent of the roughly $1.5 billion in R&D done in Alberta each year, and generates revenues of approximately $84 million per year. ARC operates from five sites across the province in Edmonton, Calgary, Vegreville and Devon and employs more than 600 highly-skilled people.
In January 2010, under the new Alberta Innovation Framework, the Alberta Research Council was restructured and incorporated into the new provincial agency Alberta Innovates Technology Futures.
Program Date: 2007-11-08