Measure. Model. Fund. Build.
One discipline: measure the waste, model the options, secure the funding — and only then build, with the public brought along at every step. Advisory for municipalities, Indigenous communities, and industry across the full development arc, grounded in measured data and kept honest by structural independence.
Waste Audits & Characterization
The evidence base every downstream decision depends on.
Most municipal waste figures in circulation are per-capita calculations rather than measurements — and the laboratory work behind many regional studies comes from landfills far from the cities they describe. Any authority committing capital to a treatment facility deserves better evidence than that.
We run seasonal sampling and stream analysis across your actual waste: composition, moisture content, and calorific value, profiled through the year. The result is a characterization your engineers, lenders, and council can all stand behind.
- Seasonal waste characterization report
- Moisture and calorific value profiles
- Stream-by-stream composition analysis
- Technology suitability screening based on measured data
Feasibility & Technology Assessment
Comparative, evidence-based, and independently validated.
We assess candidate technologies against your measured waste stream — mass burn combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, mechanical and biological treatment, and hybrid configurations — including emissions and regulatory compliance against national standards, and carbon capture integration on thermal facilities.
Financial modelling covers gate-fee thresholds, energy revenue, contract term and volume sensitivity, and residue and ash management. Technology shortlists are validated independently by WtERT — and where preferred, your authority can engage WtERT directly, with the validation report addressed to you as client.
- Comparative technology assessment
- Gate-fee and revenue financial model
- Emissions and compliance assessment
- Independent WtERT validation of the shortlist
Grants & Project Funding
Public funding can carry a project from study to shovel-ready.
Canada's funding landscape for waste recovery and emissions-reduction projects is deep but fragmented: Emissions Reduction Alberta, Alberta Innovates, the Northern and Regional Economic Development Program, NRC IRAP, NRCan energy innovation programs, the Green Municipal Fund, the Clean Technology and CCUS investment tax credits, and Indigenous-specific channels including AIOC loan guarantees. Knowing which program fits which project stage — and writing an application that survives technical review — is a discipline of its own.
We identify the right programs for your project, align the application with the measured evidence behind it, and support the process through to award. Our team's ventures have secured this funding themselves — including Emissions Reduction Alberta support for the front-end engineering of Varme Energy's waste-to-energy facility with carbon capture.
- Program mapping across federal, provincial, and Indigenous-specific funding
- Grant application development backed by measured project data
- Investment tax credit screening (Clean Technology, CCUS)
- Funding-stack integration with the project financial model
Public Engagement & Social License
New technology only succeeds with the community behind it.
Waste and energy facilities attract hard questions — about emissions, health, traffic, and property values — and projects that treat those questions as an afterthought tend to die at the podium, whatever their engineering merits. Social license is built the same way technical confidence is: with evidence, shared early and in plain language.
We design and run the engagement program alongside the technical work: stakeholder mapping, open houses, council and community presentations, and plain-language materials that translate measured data into answers residents can weigh for themselves. The engagement record then does double duty, supporting permitting and regulatory review.
- Stakeholder mapping and engagement strategy
- Open houses, council presentations, and community Q&A support
- Plain-language technical materials built from measured data
- Engagement documentation that supports permitting and regulatory review
Pre-FEED, FEED & Procurement
Best-practice front-end engineering, before capital is committed.
Once a direction is set, we carry the work through front-end engineering design: siting and grid studies, environmental permitting and reporting, contract structuring, and procurement support — bringing the same evidence-first discipline to the phase where most projects quietly lock in their risks.
Where a project requires depth beyond the core team, we draw on a fully staffed development team covering permitting, engineering coordination, and project execution, engaged on an hours basis — through commissioning and EPC coordination.
- Pre-FEED studies aligned to best industry practices
- Siting and grid interconnection studies
- Environmental permitting and reporting management
- Procurement support and bid evaluation
- FEED management, commissioning support, and EPC coordination
Streams We Work With
Not every stream fits a standard pathway. The harder the material is to dispose of, the more a measured, technology-neutral assessment matters.
Two Ways to Work With Us.
Many clients start with advisory; some engagements grow into delivered infrastructure. Whichever the path, the role is explicit at every step — and the technology assessment is always independently validated.
We work on your side of the table: waste characterization, technology assessment under independent validation, siting and grid studies, financial modelling of gate fees and contract terms, procurement support, and FEED management — with every conflict of interest disclosed up front.
A dedicated project company finances, builds, owns, and operates the facility alongside capital and engineering partners. Your commitment is a long-term waste supply agreement at an agreed gate fee — no capital cost, no operating liability.
Where We Work
We're based in Edmonton, Alberta, and deliver engagements Canada-wide — across Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada, and the territories. Waste audits and characterization travel well: the methodology is the same wherever the waste is, and the findings belong to you. International engagements run alongside our Asia-Pacific work.