There seems to be a rush of interest in Canada for what our universities can do to help the environment and the University of Alberta is progressing steadily with its unique program, the Centre for Oil Sands Innovation (COSI).

COSI is a multi-million dollar project that is focused on finding newer, cheaper and cleaner ways of oil sands development.

Murray Gray, the program’s project leader, said the centre’s emphasis on finding new technologies means they focus on high-risk but high-reward programs to improve the overall environmental performance of the oil sands mining industry.