November 21, 2022. Executive Director of Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance (CNGVA) Bruce Winchester announced the 2022 Annual General Meeting on December 6th in Calgary, Alberta.
This year marks the return to an in-person AGM, and for those who are unable to travel to Calgary for the meeting, there is an option to join remotely.
Tourmaline, which has been playing a leading role in Canada’s natural gas industry, supporting innovation, emissions reductions and deployment of natural gas vehicles (NGVs), is the host for the event.
According to CNGVA Director the program planned for the AGM includes:
- Keynote speaker – Adam Taylor – President and Founder Export Action Global – will discuss the US Inflation Reduction Act and the recent Federal Fall Economic Update contrasting their impact on clean energy projects.
- Fleet Presentation – Laura Lunt Director, Energy Services, Linde – will update on a fleet conversion project, that will use a new technology producing for liquefied natural gas (LNG) with 20% lower carbon intensity than conventional production to support diesel fuel switching in Canada. This ambitious project will provide full value-chain support to transition’s Linde Class 8 tractor fleet to LNG starting with new units in Alberta in 2023.
Furthermore, CNGVA ED report updated the status of the Arctic LNG Study. Over the last two years CNGVA lead a joint industry-government study of the use of LNG in the Arctic Marine sector. This was the third in a serries of geographically themed studies – West Coast; Great Lakes and East Coast; and Arctic – that explored the challenges and benefits of using LNG in the marine sector. This work has spanned almost a decade, when they started use of LNG as a ship fuel was mostly limited to LNG tankers, but today more than 1,000 LNG vessels are in service or on order. In Canada they have four domestic fleets using LNG in the West Coast and Great Lakes regions and have four Canadian ports that have supported LNG bunkering.
The Arctic study looked at both ship and in region bunkering options that could support a 21 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from shipping in the region.
Finally, CNGVA is raising funds to support a net zero emissions three fuel study of options for public transit fleets to meet net zero greenhouse gas emissions targets. The study will consider battery electric buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric buses and renewable natural gas (RNG) buses to determine costs and trade-offs. The intent is to fund this study with supplementary support from members who are supporting or pursuing public transit fleet opportunities. The study follows up on a recent RNG for transit study completed by the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium – taking a deeper dive comparing three energy sources or fuels.