Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
OK, we’re not talking Silicon Valley, here. But the idea that Alberta is all oil sands, grass fed beef and hard back checking left-wingers isn’t the whole truth, either. Like most Canadian provinces, Alberta’s technology is a mix of sub-sectors, but there’s a vein of the hardscrabble prairie life running through many of its tech [...]
Edmonton’s Wavefront Technology (TSXV:WEE) takes physics to the oil patch. Beginning with research done at the University of Waterloo, Wavefront researchers managed to figure out the physics that caused fluid changes after earthquakes and how to apply the now patented process to the injection of fluids for enhanced oil recovery and groundwater clean up. [...]
This is Part Two of a three-part article called Tech Sparks, which examines sub-sectors of Canadian technology that could spark a more general revival. For Parts One and Three follow the links at the end of the story. When you think of oil in Saudi Arabia or Texas what image comes to mind? For most [...]
In Alberta’s oil sands, it’s hard to trust a number. Oil sands fuel creates 82 percent more greenhouse gases than regular fuel, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates. Not so, says IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, who say that number is more in the range of five to fifteen per cent higher than the average [...]
Calgary’s Jim Letourneau is a geologist and investor with an eye for technology. As publisher and editor of Jim Letourneau’s Big Picture Speculator, Jim is as likely to comment on his favorite new iPad app as he is on the price of copper. Letourneau’s unique vantage point led him to Edmonton’s Wavefront Technologies (TSXV:WEE), a [...]
