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Funding for the next intake of the Rural Economic Diversification and Infrastructure Program (REDIP) is jumping to $66 million based on the quality of applications received to date.

A shift is taking place in Alberta’s industrial heartland as the province’s economy builds on the success of its petrochemical processing sector towards other energy sources and new manufacturing ventures.

Today, the Government of Canada and the Government of British Columbia announced a combined $7.2-million investment to create a new biomanufacturing training centre at BCIT, where in partnership with CASTL biomanufacturing training will be delivered to build the talent pool to meet the needs of the growing life sciences and biomanufacturing businesses.

An alliance of Canada’s dominant oil sands producers has struck a deal to begin evaluating one of the world’s biggest proposed carbon capture and storage projects in Alberta, targeting initial capacity of 22 million tonnes per annum.

Canada’s post-pandemic economy is like a cross-country horse race. Out front, galloping through the canyons of inflation, geopolitical instability, and supply chain problems are oil and gas, retail, transportation, manufacturing, agriculture and tourism, to name a few industries. Gaining momentum is energy cleantech.