Through our two environmental funds, the Environmental Innovation Fund (EIF) and the Environmental Efficiency Fund (EEF), we finance the implementation of technologies or processes that result in measureable reductions in emissions, energy, land and water use within our operations.
EEF 2010 mandate
Finance internal projects that create measurable reductions in emissions, energy, land and water use in operations.
EIF 2010 mandate
Fund external companies and technologies that improve the environmental performance of producing or consuming energy. The EIF supports emerging technologies or processes that ultimately could be purchased through EEF or support Encana's corporate strategy.
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Atlantic Hydrogen: CarbonSaver Demonstration Project |
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We've partnered with the Province of New Brunswick in support of Atlantic Hydrogen's CarbonSaver™ Demonstration Project. Atlantic Hydrogen Inc., a clean energy technology developer, has a patent-pending plasma technology that creates natural gas with a lower carbon content, which holds great potential for widespread use wherever natural gas is consumed. The CarbonSaver technology captures carbon in a natural gas stream as a solid, which can then be sold for use in products such as inks, dyes and plastics. This extraction process leaves behind a hydrogen-enriched, low-emissions fuel, which when combusted reduces CO2 up to seven percent and nitrogen oxide (NOx) up to 90 percent in some applications. |
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Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy |
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The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) will support the advancement of technologies that have the potential to provide new sources of clean renewable ocean energy.
At the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, FORCE will oversee three demonstration tidal power technologies installed on the seabed in the Minas Channel. One of the technologies was installed in 2009, with the two others to follow. The Bay of Fundy is one of the world's best sites for tidal development. The flow rate of the water passing through the Minas Passage at its peak flow is said to be greater than the flow rate of all combined fresh river flows on the earth. |
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REM Technology/UBC: Improving thermal efficiency |
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With the help of Encana, REM Technology Inc., along with the University of British Columbia's Clean Energy Research Centre, is developing two technologies designed to improve thermal efficiency and reduce emissions from natural-gas fuelled engines. Encana is financing the development of the technology. |
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