The Government of Canada announced five projects receiving funding under the Low Carbon Economy Fund.

The Low Carbon Economy Fund is an important part of Canada's clean growth and climate action plans. It invests in projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, generate clean growth, build resilient communities, and create jobs for Canadians.

The Low Carbon Economy Fund consists of four funding streams: the Leadership Fund, the Challenge Fund, the Indigenous Leadership Fund, and the Implementation Readiness Fund. Three of the projects announced are being funded by the Challenge Fund, which aims to help organizations adopt proven, low-carbon technologies to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The other two projects are being funded under the Indigenous Leadership Fund, which supports Indigenous-owned and Indigenous-led renewable energy, energy efficiency, and low-carbon heating projects across Canada.

List of projects

Recipient: Sherritt International Corporation
Project title: Boiler Economizer
Project description: Sherritt operates a production facility in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, which refines nickel and cobalt and produces ammonia and ammonium sulphate fertilizer. Sherritt currently uses two natural gas-fired steam boilers to provide steam for process use and heating throughout the facility. This project adds economizers to both boilers to preheat the boiler feedwater using waste heat from the boiler stack exhaust. The boiler economizers will increase boiler efficiency, reduce natural gas use, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from combustion of natural gas.
Province/Territory: Alberta
Funding amount: $1,600,000
Funding stream: Challenge 2023

Recipient: Cavendish Farms Corporation
Project title: Line 1 Fryer Heat Recovery - Lethbridge
Project description: This project will recover heat energy from fryer exhaust and deposit it in various facility processes requiring heat. By using recovered heat energy, this project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from combustion of natural gas.
Province/Territory: Alberta
Funding amount: $1,375,000
Funding stream: Challenge 2023

Recipient: Taurus Canada Renewable Natural Gas Corp.
Project title: Small-Scale Carbon Capture and Storage from Feedlot Manure Anaerobic Digestion
Project description: This project involves the design and construction of a small-scale, remote carbon capture system connected to a 100% feedlot manure-based anerobic digestion facility on a feedlot site owned by the Kasko Cattle Co. This project aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to investment and job creation in rural Alberta.
Province/Territory: Alberta
Funding amount: $3,405,000
Funding stream: Challenge 2023

Recipient: Denendeh Manor GP Ltd.
Project title: Denendeh Manor Energy Efficiency Retrofit Project
Project description: The project aims to improve energy efficiency and low carbon heating at Denendeh Manor, a four-storey, Indigenous-owned apartment building in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The upgrades will include a wood pellet biomass heating system, energy-efficient windows and doors, fire-smart siding, enhanced insulation, air sealing, better ventilation, LED lighting, and a rooftop solar hot water preheat array with a sewage heat recovery system. The goal is to increase the energy efficiency of the building and eliminate oil-fired heating, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions, lowering utility costs, and creating jobs.
Province/Territory: Northwest Territories
Funding amount: $2,330,000
Funding stream: Indigenous Leadership Fund

Recipient: Inuvialuit Regional Corporation
Project title: ISR Renewable Energy Cabin Retrofit
Project description: The ISR Renewable Energy Cabin Retrofit project is to be delivered by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. The project aims to supply ground-mounted solar installation kits to Inuvialuit-owned cabins in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR), located in the Northwest Territories. To improve the accessibility, usability, and longevity of the solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, the project would support solar panel installation and maintenance workshops in six Inuvialuit Settlement Region communities. The project would also include a call for project proposals for Inuvialuit Settlement Region communities with the intention of providing funding to one or more selected projects that would support greenhouse gas emission reductions, generate clean growth, and build capacity in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region communities. The primary object of the project is to increase accessibility to clean energy sources for Inuvialuit in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
Province: Northwest Territories
Funding amount/Territory: $4,650,000
Funding stream: Indigenous Leadership Fund