Pathways Alliance, a group of six Alberta oil sands producers, is making progress on a $12-billion carbon capture and storage project but is seeking more government funding.
Organization: Cenovus Energy Inc.
Corporate R&D enjoys double-digit growth in 2018 with outlays of $13 billion by the top 100
Canada’s Top 100 corporate R&D-performing companies far exceeded 2017’s outlays, jumping from a 0.07% to a 10.6% increase in R&D spending in 2018. But big R&D champions remain scarce.
The Short Report, November 27, 2019: African researchers denied entry; open science gets easier; Big Oil moves into the cloud
Canada refused visas to dozens of African researchers seeking to attend the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NeurIPS) in Vancouver next month. The visas were commonly denied on suspicions that the participants would not leave Canada once the conference was over. The issue is recurring: last year, more than 100 attendees were denied visas to the…