ElectroKinetic Solutions Inc. (EKS) Announces New CEO; Provides an Update on the EKS-DT Field Demonstration
TORONTO, Oct. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – ElectroKinetic Solutions Inc. (EKS) Chair and President James Micak announced today the appointment of Shaun Kavalinas as the new Chief Executive Officer. Shaun’s appointment is effective November 1. EKS also announced that retiring CEO James Micak will serve as Executive Chair of the Board and will continue to provide advisory support to the CEO.
EKS Receives Funding from NRCan CGP
In August 2019, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources announced an investment of close to $2 million for ElectroKinetic Solutions Inc. to field test a new dewatering technology that will speed up the process to reclaim new and legacy oil sands mine tailings sites. Funded through Natural Resource Canada’s Clean Growth…
Environmental Benefits
EKS-DT reduces the demand on fresh water sources by increasing the water available for reuse and decreases the disturbed land footprint from tailings handling, storage, and disposal. The EKS-DT process is clearly environmentally superior to current technologies on all counts: Less fugitive GHG emissions The process can be operated by…
Improve Long-Term Sustainability
EKS – Dewatering Technology process test results demonstrate clearly that the overall impact of EKS-DT will be to improve the long-term sustainability of Alberta’s oil sands industry. Social Responsibility The EKS-DT process is clearly socially superior to current technologies on all counts: Eliminates current environmental liabilities in the near term…
Reduce Costs
EKS has prepared a detailed quantitative life cycle analysis for its technology and used these results to compare its economic and environmental performance with other dewatering technologies. The EKS-DT process clearly out performs existing technologies. Competitive advantages include: Significantly lower operating costs Greatly reduce material handling Rapid dewatering Geotechnically stable…
The Research Continues
Ongoing EKS-DT process optimisation research is being conducted in collaboration with Western University.
EKS Innovations Set the Standard
EKS has developed a number of patented innovations that have resulted in major improvements in the capital and operating costs of the EKS-DT process as well as improvements in the performance of the dewatering process itself.
EKS Helping to Drive Innovation in the Oil Sands
EKS is pleased to have been identified by Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) as a company that is helping to drive innovation in the oil sands industry. EKS is proud of the recognition the industry is giving it’s ElectroKinetic Solutions – Dewatering Technology (EKS-DT) and believe EKS-DT can help oil sand…