Failsafe Canada Inc.
Oct 22, 2009
Failsafe Canada Inc. Signs Licensing Agreements With Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp. (GET), to Provide Canadian Carbon Offset Quantification Services
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Oct. 22, 2009) - Failsafe Canada Inc. today announced that it has finalized a Licensing Agreement, with Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp.(GET), an Alberta Corporation, that will capitalize on the current legislation regarding the Carbon and Green house gas offset market. The new agreement will provide for the integration of various data platforms required for the accurate quantification and verification of carbon offsets within the trading market. The licensing agreement will also complete the business relationship between Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp.(GET), and (EOS) Emissions Offset Solutions Corp. of Calgary Alberta, a subsidiary corporation of Failsafe Canada Inc. This new business relationship will deliver to market, a powerhouse of carbon and GHG reduction and verification technologies, along with viable opportunities for market investors. Stacy Nephin of Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp. (GET), says," this new and powerful relationship with (EOS) Emissions Offset Solutions Corp. will deliver market opportunities to potential participants of all sizes and abilities."
EOS, ( Emissions Offset Solutions Corp ), a pioneer in the Alberta offset marketplace, is a private company that provides quality leading edge GHG Emission Reduction solutions to industry. EOS delivers software products and services that assist industry in defining, quantifying, validating, certifying, serializing, aggregating and selling carbon credits and related green house gas offsets.
Failsafe Canada is currently participating in a project with Cattleland of Alberta, one of the countries largest feedyards, to quantify the new bovine protocols. Using Failsafe's proprietary technology, Cattleland will be able to produce Offset credits by utilizing the approved bovine protocols, which are now in the Failsafe system. The Manure management protocols are to be the next ones utilized in the Alberta offset market place.
Failsafe Canada is proud to announce that they now have a working relationship with the Canadian Offset Trade Association, COTA. COTA will work with stakeholder groups, government and related legislative bodies to further define and standardize the rules and regulations around certification and verification technologies for the offset market.
Failsafe Canada continues to provide QSyS, the leading Offset management application that manages the entire lifecycle of greenhouse gas reduction projects, which core elements include, Contact Management, Document Management and Contract Management, Supply Chain Management, Offset quantification, serialization, inventory management, Financial statements and other financial and operational reports. QSys is also available on a transactional or subscription basis for new aggregators.
EOS has added new protocols that are of significant interest to the livestock industry especially feedlots. The new protocols are: "Edible Oils", "Days on Feed" & "Beef Life Cycle". These new protocols complement the existing "No- Till" protocol, and energy efficiency protocols, which are already programmed into the existing EOS application. These additional protocols have all been approved by the Alberta government and commercialized by Failsafe Canada Inc.
Failsafe Canada is the leading system provider for organizations looking to aggregate offset credits. QSYS is a proven system that creates, tracks, and manages verified emissions reductions, (VERs) within the agriculture sector and is now able to handle other industry verticals such as Biofuels, Afforestation, Wind and other renewable energy markets. Failsafe Canada also provides MSys, a Carbon Offset management tool for (LFEs) industrial, large final emitters.
Aggregation and partnership opportunities are available. For further information about Alberta's Offset carbon credits, the Canadian offset market or the International Carbon Market, Contact Failsafe Canada Inc.
For more information, please contact
Failsafe Canada Inc.
(403) 313-6789 Ext 103 or 104
info@failsafecanada.com
www.emissionsreduction.ca
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Failsafe Signs Licensing Agreements With Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp. to Provide Carbon Offset Quantification Services
Oct 22, 2009 16:45 ET
Failsafe Canada Inc. Signs Licensing Agreements With Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp. (GET), to Provide Canadian Carbon Offset Quantification Services.
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Oct. 22, 2009) - Failsafe Canada Inc. today announced that it has finalized a Licensing Agreement, with Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp.(GET), an Alberta Corporation, that will capitalize on the current legislation regarding the Carbon and Green house gas offset market. The new agreement will provide for the integration of various data platforms required for the accurate quantification and verification of carbon offsets within the trading market. The licensing agreement will also complete the business relationship between Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp.(GET), and (EOS) Emissions Offset Solutions Corp. of Calgary Alberta, a subsidiary corporation of Failsafe Canada Inc. This new business relationship will deliver to market, a powerhouse of carbon and GHG reduction and verification technologies, along with viable opportunities for market investors. Stacy Nephin of Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp. (GET), says," this new and powerful relationship with (EOS) Emissions Offset Solutions Corp. will deliver market opportunities to potential participants of all sizes and abilities."
EOS, ( Emissions Offset Solutions Corp ), a pioneer in the Alberta offset marketplace, is a private company that provides quality leading edge GHG Emission Reduction solutions to industry. EOS delivers software products and services that assist industry in defining, quantifying, validating, certifying, serializing, aggregating and selling carbon credits and related green house gas offsets.
Failsafe Canada is currently participating in a project with Cattleland of Alberta, one of the countries largest feedyards, to quantify the new bovine protocols. Using Failsafe's proprietary technology, Cattleland will be able to produce Offset credits by utilizing the approved bovine protocols, which are now in the Failsafe system. The Manure management protocols are to be the next ones utilized in the Alberta offset market place.
Failsafe Canada is proud to announce that they now have a working relationship with the Canadian Offset Trade Association, COTA. COTA will work with stakeholder groups, government and related legislative bodies to further define and standardize the rules and regulations around certification and verification technologies for the offset market.
Failsafe Canada continues to provide QSyS, the leading Offset management application that manages the entire lifecycle of greenhouse gas reduction projects, which core elements include, Contact Management, Document Management and Contract Management, Supply Chain Management, Offset quantification, serialization, inventory management, Financial statements and other financial and operational reports. QSys is also available on a transactional or subscription basis for new aggregators.
EOS has added new protocols that are of significant interest to the livestock industry especially feedlots. The new protocols are: "Edible Oils", "Days on Feed" & "Beef Life Cycle". These new protocols complement the existing "No- Till" protocol, and energy efficiency protocols, which are already programmed into the existing EOS application. These additional protocols have all been approved by the Alberta government and commercialized by Failsafe Canada Inc.
Failsafe Canada is the leading system provider for organizations looking to aggregate offset credits. QSYS is a proven system that creates, tracks, and manages verified emissions reductions, (VERs) within the agriculture sector and is now able to handle other industry verticals such as Biofuels, Afforestation, Wind and other renewable energy markets. Failsafe Canada also provides MSys, a Carbon Offset management tool for (LFEs) industrial, large final emitters.
Aggregation and partnership opportunities are available. For further information about Alberta's Offset carbon credits, the Canadian offset market or the International Carbon Market, Contact Failsafe Canada Inc.
(403) 313-6789 Ext 103 or 104
info@failsafecanada.com
www.emissionsreduction.ca
Failsafe Canada Inc. Signs Licensing Agreements With Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp. (GET), to Provide Canadian Carbon Offset Quantification Services.
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Oct. 22, 2009) - Failsafe Canada Inc. today announced that it has finalized a Licensing Agreement, with Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp.(GET), an Alberta Corporation, that will capitalize on the current legislation regarding the Carbon and Green house gas offset market. The new agreement will provide for the integration of various data platforms required for the accurate quantification and verification of carbon offsets within the trading market. The licensing agreement will also complete the business relationship between Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp.(GET), and (EOS) Emissions Offset Solutions Corp. of Calgary Alberta, a subsidiary corporation of Failsafe Canada Inc. This new business relationship will deliver to market, a powerhouse of carbon and GHG reduction and verification technologies, along with viable opportunities for market investors. Stacy Nephin of Greenhouse Emissions Trading Corp. (GET), says," this new and powerful relationship with (EOS) Emissions Offset Solutions Corp. will deliver market opportunities to potential participants of all sizes and abilities."
EOS, ( Emissions Offset Solutions Corp ), a pioneer in the Alberta offset marketplace, is a private company that provides quality leading edge GHG Emission Reduction solutions to industry. EOS delivers software products and services that assist industry in defining, quantifying, validating, certifying, serializing, aggregating and selling carbon credits and related green house gas offsets.
Failsafe Canada is currently participating in a project with Cattleland of Alberta, one of the countries largest feedyards, to quantify the new bovine protocols. Using Failsafe's proprietary technology, Cattleland will be able to produce Offset credits by utilizing the approved bovine protocols, which are now in the Failsafe system. The Manure management protocols are to be the next ones utilized in the Alberta offset market place.
Failsafe Canada is proud to announce that they now have a working relationship with the Canadian Offset Trade Association, COTA. COTA will work with stakeholder groups, government and related legislative bodies to further define and standardize the rules and regulations around certification and verification technologies for the offset market.
Failsafe Canada continues to provide QSyS, the leading Offset management application that manages the entire lifecycle of greenhouse gas reduction projects, which core elements include, Contact Management, Document Management and Contract Management, Supply Chain Management, Offset quantification, serialization, inventory management, Financial statements and other financial and operational reports. QSys is also available on a transactional or subscription basis for new aggregators.
EOS has added new protocols that are of significant interest to the livestock industry especially feedlots. The new protocols are: "Edible Oils", "Days on Feed" & "Beef Life Cycle". These new protocols complement the existing "No- Till" protocol, and energy efficiency protocols, which are already programmed into the existing EOS application. These additional protocols have all been approved by the Alberta government and commercialized by Failsafe Canada Inc.
Failsafe Canada is the leading system provider for organizations looking to aggregate offset credits. QSYS is a proven system that creates, tracks, and manages verified emissions reductions, (VERs) within the agriculture sector and is now able to handle other industry verticals such as Biofuels, Afforestation, Wind and other renewable energy markets. Failsafe Canada also provides MSys, a Carbon Offset management tool for (LFEs) industrial, large final emitters.
Aggregation and partnership opportunities are available. For further information about Alberta's Offset carbon credits, the Canadian offset market or the International Carbon Market, Contact Failsafe Canada Inc.
(403) 313-6789 Ext 103 or 104
info@failsafecanada.com
www.emissionsreduction.ca
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Carbon Offset Credits in Alberta
As you may already know, Failsafe Canada, has been actively involved with the Alberta Carbon Offset Credit (GHG) sector for over three years now. We were one of the first to provide services for Alberta aggregators and successfully utilize the low till-no till protocols. Our services actually delivered money back in to the hands of farmers, ( 1136 Alberta farmers ) quantifying and verifying the data, providing for better agricultural practices in Alberta. During the 07 compliance period, in 08, over 75% of the successfully aggregated, quantified, verified and serialized carbon credits were created in our system. Since that time we have gone forward to develop superior applications and services, becoming members of a number of industrial groups and stakeholder organizations. Some of the groups and organizations we are working with include, Climate Change Central, IPOG, WCI, REGI, Novecta, The Carbon Offset Trade Association (COTA), along with Federal and Provincial governments. This year we will continue to meet with priority stakeholders and provide these essential services to Alberta.
On the 10th of Sept. 2009, we attended a meeting with the Hon. George Groeneveld, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon. Mel Knight, the Minister of Energy, Hon. Ray Danyluk, Minister of Municipal Affairs, Mr. Lloyd Snelgrove, President of the Treasury Board and the Hon. Jack Hayden, Minister of Infrastructure. Current updates were delivered and information reviewed.
2009 Summer Updates
• This summer we met with the Hon. Ted Morton’s office, Minister of Sustainable Resource Development and we were introduced to Mr. Morris Seiferling, Assistant Deputy Minister. Meaningful discussions through a consultative process have resulted in cooperation with the Departments Senior Policy Managers. Among the benefits that have been realized are market awareness, significant knowledge transfer and biodiversities new stewardship potential.
• Also, recently we met with the Hon. Rob Renner, the Minister of Environment. During this meeting we furthered discussions about quantification and certification issues. The Minister made clear the importance of achieving exacting verification standards in Alberta and was pleased that we are working towards delivering these critical verification standards.
• In September we met with the office of the Hon. George Groeneveld, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. During this meeting we had meaningful discussions about Alberta’s quantification and certification issues. Mr. Tom Goddard, Environmental Land Use/ Agriculture and Food / Policy Secretariat, also made clear the importance of verification documentation along with verification standards and policies in Alberta. This department was impressed that we are working with COTA towards delivering the critical standardization procedures for Alberta’s offset market.
• We have just become the first in Alberta to begin the quantification and utilization of the new bovine protocols, for a group of the countries largest cattle feed lots. This will provide another means of desperately needed income for Alberta’s beef industry and once again prove to the world, Alberta is leading the way.
• Failsafe has recently formed a strategic partnership with VanCoe Environmental,of Wilkinson, IN. By utilizing Vancoe’s satellite spectrum analysis capabilities, Failsafe will be able to provide detailed and highly specific verification services to Alberta. This will not only provide critical historical data and current information, but also decrease the demand of subsequent auditing costs to the government of Alberta. Also, this service will help to enable and establish a baseline for many of the agricultural protocols.
• Failsafe is also working directly with The Carbon Offset Trade Association (COTA). This newly formed organization has been developing standards for Market self regulation, important to maintaining Alberta’s successful offset market commercialization. COTA will also standardize and proof check all of the procedures under which its many members will operate. Failsafe is actively involved with COTA to provide the technical services and data delivery required for its day to day operations.
• Failsafe Canada has signed an agreement to provide QSys to National Leasing of Canada. Established over 30 years ago, National Leasing provides financial solutions to businesses throughout Canada and is a recognized leader in equipment financing. National Leasing will utilize QSys to aggregate, quantify, verify and serialize offset credits from their coast to coast network of agents and service outlet.
• Failsafe Canada has completed a deal with Green House Gas Emissions Corp. to aggregate on behalf of Clean Energy Technologies of Calgary Alberta. Clean Energy Technologies provides highly sophisticated and efficient wind turbines for industry and residential applications. CET delivers new technology that makes wind power generation more efficient. Their Axial Flux Permanent Magnet (AFPM) technology achieves these efficiencies and is able to produce more power at lower wind speeds due to our coreless technology.
Failsafe will provide QSys to GHG Corp. which will in turn aggregate for the new Wind protocols, included in QSys, producing offsets that will be sold on the European market.
One of the most significant advances we have achieved is the ability to deliver specific land library services. This scientific approach will provide exacting historical data on all lands within the province of Alberta from 1982 forward. This data will provide land use, crop specifics, land sizing and detailed data on land biomass and potential carbon sequestration capability. By utilizing this imaging and data technology, Failsafe will be able to significantly increase the quality of offsets and decrease the direct costs to government incurred by the additional and subsequent audits now required by the government.
Failsafe has in fact become one of the defacto clearing houses for current and up to date data on the market sector and applicable technologies. We field questions and deliver answers on a daily basis to industry stakeholders, LFEs, Carbon Traders, Environmental assessment groups, Agricultural organizations and Legislative departments.
We are also helping market players and government, simplify the complexity of the offset verification and management services, by providing tools that manage the LFEs, ( large final emitters) inventory of offsets. This provides a critical business service that benefits Alberta industry and Government.
As you may already know, Alberta is seen on the global stage as the leader in Carbon offset market technologies and innovative legislation policies. We will continue to work together with Canadian, International and U.S. stakeholder groups, industry specialists and provincial governments, to make sure we are continually seen as the leader in Carbon offset market policies and innovative best practices. Failsafe will continue to provide creditability, support and trust in this new business sector.
Franchise, Marketing and Partnership opportunties exist.
For additional information just Google “failsafe carbon”
or contact
B. Henderson
Brad Henderson
Failsafe Canada Inc.
Suite 110 – 3025 – 12 St.
N.E. Calgary Alberta
Canada T2E-7J2
Offc 403 313 6789 ext. 104
Cell 403 701 0075
On the 10th of Sept. 2009, we attended a meeting with the Hon. George Groeneveld, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon. Mel Knight, the Minister of Energy, Hon. Ray Danyluk, Minister of Municipal Affairs, Mr. Lloyd Snelgrove, President of the Treasury Board and the Hon. Jack Hayden, Minister of Infrastructure. Current updates were delivered and information reviewed.
2009 Summer Updates
• This summer we met with the Hon. Ted Morton’s office, Minister of Sustainable Resource Development and we were introduced to Mr. Morris Seiferling, Assistant Deputy Minister. Meaningful discussions through a consultative process have resulted in cooperation with the Departments Senior Policy Managers. Among the benefits that have been realized are market awareness, significant knowledge transfer and biodiversities new stewardship potential.
• Also, recently we met with the Hon. Rob Renner, the Minister of Environment. During this meeting we furthered discussions about quantification and certification issues. The Minister made clear the importance of achieving exacting verification standards in Alberta and was pleased that we are working towards delivering these critical verification standards.
• In September we met with the office of the Hon. George Groeneveld, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. During this meeting we had meaningful discussions about Alberta’s quantification and certification issues. Mr. Tom Goddard, Environmental Land Use/ Agriculture and Food / Policy Secretariat, also made clear the importance of verification documentation along with verification standards and policies in Alberta. This department was impressed that we are working with COTA towards delivering the critical standardization procedures for Alberta’s offset market.
• We have just become the first in Alberta to begin the quantification and utilization of the new bovine protocols, for a group of the countries largest cattle feed lots. This will provide another means of desperately needed income for Alberta’s beef industry and once again prove to the world, Alberta is leading the way.
• Failsafe has recently formed a strategic partnership with VanCoe Environmental,of Wilkinson, IN. By utilizing Vancoe’s satellite spectrum analysis capabilities, Failsafe will be able to provide detailed and highly specific verification services to Alberta. This will not only provide critical historical data and current information, but also decrease the demand of subsequent auditing costs to the government of Alberta. Also, this service will help to enable and establish a baseline for many of the agricultural protocols.
• Failsafe is also working directly with The Carbon Offset Trade Association (COTA). This newly formed organization has been developing standards for Market self regulation, important to maintaining Alberta’s successful offset market commercialization. COTA will also standardize and proof check all of the procedures under which its many members will operate. Failsafe is actively involved with COTA to provide the technical services and data delivery required for its day to day operations.
• Failsafe Canada has signed an agreement to provide QSys to National Leasing of Canada. Established over 30 years ago, National Leasing provides financial solutions to businesses throughout Canada and is a recognized leader in equipment financing. National Leasing will utilize QSys to aggregate, quantify, verify and serialize offset credits from their coast to coast network of agents and service outlet.
• Failsafe Canada has completed a deal with Green House Gas Emissions Corp. to aggregate on behalf of Clean Energy Technologies of Calgary Alberta. Clean Energy Technologies provides highly sophisticated and efficient wind turbines for industry and residential applications. CET delivers new technology that makes wind power generation more efficient. Their Axial Flux Permanent Magnet (AFPM) technology achieves these efficiencies and is able to produce more power at lower wind speeds due to our coreless technology.
Failsafe will provide QSys to GHG Corp. which will in turn aggregate for the new Wind protocols, included in QSys, producing offsets that will be sold on the European market.
One of the most significant advances we have achieved is the ability to deliver specific land library services. This scientific approach will provide exacting historical data on all lands within the province of Alberta from 1982 forward. This data will provide land use, crop specifics, land sizing and detailed data on land biomass and potential carbon sequestration capability. By utilizing this imaging and data technology, Failsafe will be able to significantly increase the quality of offsets and decrease the direct costs to government incurred by the additional and subsequent audits now required by the government.
Failsafe has in fact become one of the defacto clearing houses for current and up to date data on the market sector and applicable technologies. We field questions and deliver answers on a daily basis to industry stakeholders, LFEs, Carbon Traders, Environmental assessment groups, Agricultural organizations and Legislative departments.
We are also helping market players and government, simplify the complexity of the offset verification and management services, by providing tools that manage the LFEs, ( large final emitters) inventory of offsets. This provides a critical business service that benefits Alberta industry and Government.
As you may already know, Alberta is seen on the global stage as the leader in Carbon offset market technologies and innovative legislation policies. We will continue to work together with Canadian, International and U.S. stakeholder groups, industry specialists and provincial governments, to make sure we are continually seen as the leader in Carbon offset market policies and innovative best practices. Failsafe will continue to provide creditability, support and trust in this new business sector.
Franchise, Marketing and Partnership opportunties exist.
For additional information just Google “failsafe carbon”
or contact
B. Henderson
Brad Henderson
Failsafe Canada Inc.
Suite 110 – 3025 – 12 St.
N.E. Calgary Alberta
Canada T2E-7J2
Offc 403 313 6789 ext. 104
Cell 403 701 0075
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Failsafe Canada Inc. delivers new Carbon Offset Trading functionality and new strategic business partners
Failsafe Canada Inc. delivers new Carbon Offset Trading functionality and new strategic business partners
CALGARY, Alberta, August 20, 2009, /CNW/ - Failsafe Canada Inc. today announced that it has finalized and placed new technology, that completes
the necessary supply chain requirements, to be involved in Alberta’s and North Americans, Carbon Credit and Green House Gas, (GHG), offset market.
During the month of June 2009, Failsafe Canada successfully delivered a
“Carbon Credit Trading and Investment Seminar” to two, sold out sessions.
Failsafe Canada is proud to announce that they have formed a working relationship with the Canadian Offset Trade Association, COTA. COTA will work with stakeholder groups, government and related legislative bodies to further define and standardize the rules and regulations around certification and verification technologies for the offset market.
Failsafe Canada would like to announce that they have formed a strategic business relationship with VanCoe Agriculture, of Wilkinson, IN. VanCoe delivers leading edge satellite imaging services using advanced spectrum analysis to improve verification accuracy and offset quality. Failsafe and Vancoe’s new offset verification technology will be available in Sept. of 2009.
Failsafe Canada is now able to announce a strategic business relationship with Cattleland of Alberta, one of the countries largest feedyards. Using Failsafe’s proprietary technology, Cattleland will be able to produce Offset credits by utilizing the newly approved bovine protocols, which are now in the Failsafe system.
Failsafe Canada provides QSyS, for managing the entire lifecycle of greenhouse gas reduction projects.
The core elements of this enterprise solution include:
- Contact Management, Document Management and Contract Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Offset quantification, serialization, inventory management
- Financial statements and other financial and operational reports
- Customer relationship and contract management
- Data warehousing and data/credit audit trail
New protocols have also been added which will be of significant interest to the livestock industry especially feedlots. The new protocols are: "Edible Oils", "Days on Feed" & "Beef Life Cycle". These new protocols complement the existing "No- Till" protocol, and energy efficiency protocols, which are already programmed into the application. These additional protocols have all been approved by the Alberta government.
Failsafe Canada is the leading system provider for organizations
looking to aggregate offset credits. QSYS is a proven system that creates,
tracks, and manages verified emissions reductions, (VERs) within the
agriculture sector and is now able to handle other industry verticals
such as Biofuels, Afforestation, Wind and other renewable energy markets.
Failsafe Canada also provides MSys, a Carbon Offset management tool for (LFEs)
large final emitters.
Failsafe Canada provides technology, strategic consulting, and expert
operational services to assist in reducing costs and improving performance in
market operations, system operations support, and demand response programs.
Failsafe is a privately- held company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
Aggregation and partnership opportunities are available. For further information: Additional information can be obtain from
Failsafe Canada Inc. at (403) 313-6789 Ext 116 or 103 info@failsafecanada.com
CALGARY, Alberta, August 20, 2009, /CNW/ - Failsafe Canada Inc. today announced that it has finalized and placed new technology, that completes
the necessary supply chain requirements, to be involved in Alberta’s and North Americans, Carbon Credit and Green House Gas, (GHG), offset market.
During the month of June 2009, Failsafe Canada successfully delivered a
“Carbon Credit Trading and Investment Seminar” to two, sold out sessions.
Failsafe Canada is proud to announce that they have formed a working relationship with the Canadian Offset Trade Association, COTA. COTA will work with stakeholder groups, government and related legislative bodies to further define and standardize the rules and regulations around certification and verification technologies for the offset market.
Failsafe Canada would like to announce that they have formed a strategic business relationship with VanCoe Agriculture, of Wilkinson, IN. VanCoe delivers leading edge satellite imaging services using advanced spectrum analysis to improve verification accuracy and offset quality. Failsafe and Vancoe’s new offset verification technology will be available in Sept. of 2009.
Failsafe Canada is now able to announce a strategic business relationship with Cattleland of Alberta, one of the countries largest feedyards. Using Failsafe’s proprietary technology, Cattleland will be able to produce Offset credits by utilizing the newly approved bovine protocols, which are now in the Failsafe system.
Failsafe Canada provides QSyS, for managing the entire lifecycle of greenhouse gas reduction projects.
The core elements of this enterprise solution include:
- Contact Management, Document Management and Contract Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Offset quantification, serialization, inventory management
- Financial statements and other financial and operational reports
- Customer relationship and contract management
- Data warehousing and data/credit audit trail
New protocols have also been added which will be of significant interest to the livestock industry especially feedlots. The new protocols are: "Edible Oils", "Days on Feed" & "Beef Life Cycle". These new protocols complement the existing "No- Till" protocol, and energy efficiency protocols, which are already programmed into the application. These additional protocols have all been approved by the Alberta government.
Failsafe Canada is the leading system provider for organizations
looking to aggregate offset credits. QSYS is a proven system that creates,
tracks, and manages verified emissions reductions, (VERs) within the
agriculture sector and is now able to handle other industry verticals
such as Biofuels, Afforestation, Wind and other renewable energy markets.
Failsafe Canada also provides MSys, a Carbon Offset management tool for (LFEs)
large final emitters.
Failsafe Canada provides technology, strategic consulting, and expert
operational services to assist in reducing costs and improving performance in
market operations, system operations support, and demand response programs.
Failsafe is a privately- held company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
Aggregation and partnership opportunities are available. For further information: Additional information can be obtain from
Failsafe Canada Inc. at (403) 313-6789 Ext 116 or 103 info@failsafecanada.com
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Failsafe Canada Inc. delivers new Carbon Offset Trading functionality and new strategic business partners
Failsafe Canada Inc. delivers new Carbon Offset Trading functionality and new strategic business partners
CALGARY, Alberta, August 20, 2009, /CNW/ - Failsafe Canada Inc. today announced that it has finalized and placed new technology, that completes
the necessary supply chain requirements, to be involved in Alberta’s and North Americans, Carbon Credit and Green House Gas offset market.
During the month of June 2009, Failsafe Canada successfully delivered a
“Carbon Credit Trading and Investment Seminar” to two, sold out sessions.
Failsafe Canada is proud to announce that they have formed a working relationship with the Canadian Offset Trade Association, COTA. COTA will work with stakeholder groups, government and related legislative bodies to further define and standardize the rules and regulations around certification and verification technologies for the offset market.
Failsafe Canada would like to announce that they have formed a strategic business relationship with VanCoe Agriculture, of Wilkinson, IN.
VanCoe delivers leading edge satellite imaging services using advanced spectrum analysis to improve the verification accuracy and offset quality. Failsafe and Vancoe’s new verification technology will be available in Sept. of 2009.
Failsafe Canada provides QSyS, managing the entire lifecycle of greenhouse gas reduction projects.
The core elements of this enterprise solution include:
- Contact Management, Document Management and Contract Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Offset quantification, serialization, inventory management
- Financial statements and other financial and operational reports
- Customer relationship and contract management
- Data warehousing and data/credit audit trail
New protocols have also been added which will be of significant interest to the livestock industry especially feedlots. The new protocols are: "Edible Oils", "Days on Feed" & "Beef Life Cycle". These new protocols complement the existing "No- Till" protocol, and energy efficiency protocols, which are already programmed into the application. These additional protocols have all been approved by the Alberta government.
Failsafe has selected Cattleland FeedYards of Alberta, to be the first to take advantage of the bovine protocols opportunity. Under the Alberta Offset System rules some projects can claim credits as far back as 2002, if they meet the requirements of the system and protocols. In industries suffering from low prices and declining margins this additional revenue source should be a welcome bonus. Failsafe believes that QSYS will become the defacto standard for carbon offset generation across a number of industries.
Failsafe Canada is the leading system provider for organizations
looking to aggregate offset credits. QSYS is a proven system that creates,
tracks, and manages verified emissions reductions, (VERs) within the
agriculture sector and is now able to handle other industry verticals
such as Biofuels, Afforestation, Wind and other renewable energy markets.
Failsafe Canada also provides MSys, an Offset management tool for final emitters.
Failsafe Canada provides technology, strategic consulting, and expert
operational services to assist in reducing costs and improving performance in
market operations, system operations support, and demand response programs.
Failsafe is a privately- held company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
Aggregation and partnership opportunities are available.For further information: Additional information can be obtain from
Failsafe Canada Inc. at (403) 313-6789 Ext 116 or 103 info@failsafecanada.com
CALGARY, Alberta, August 20, 2009, /CNW/ - Failsafe Canada Inc. today announced that it has finalized and placed new technology, that completes
the necessary supply chain requirements, to be involved in Alberta’s and North Americans, Carbon Credit and Green House Gas offset market.
During the month of June 2009, Failsafe Canada successfully delivered a
“Carbon Credit Trading and Investment Seminar” to two, sold out sessions.
Failsafe Canada is proud to announce that they have formed a working relationship with the Canadian Offset Trade Association, COTA. COTA will work with stakeholder groups, government and related legislative bodies to further define and standardize the rules and regulations around certification and verification technologies for the offset market.
Failsafe Canada would like to announce that they have formed a strategic business relationship with VanCoe Agriculture, of Wilkinson, IN.
VanCoe delivers leading edge satellite imaging services using advanced spectrum analysis to improve the verification accuracy and offset quality. Failsafe and Vancoe’s new verification technology will be available in Sept. of 2009.
Failsafe Canada provides QSyS, managing the entire lifecycle of greenhouse gas reduction projects.
The core elements of this enterprise solution include:
- Contact Management, Document Management and Contract Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Offset quantification, serialization, inventory management
- Financial statements and other financial and operational reports
- Customer relationship and contract management
- Data warehousing and data/credit audit trail
New protocols have also been added which will be of significant interest to the livestock industry especially feedlots. The new protocols are: "Edible Oils", "Days on Feed" & "Beef Life Cycle". These new protocols complement the existing "No- Till" protocol, and energy efficiency protocols, which are already programmed into the application. These additional protocols have all been approved by the Alberta government.
Failsafe has selected Cattleland FeedYards of Alberta, to be the first to take advantage of the bovine protocols opportunity. Under the Alberta Offset System rules some projects can claim credits as far back as 2002, if they meet the requirements of the system and protocols. In industries suffering from low prices and declining margins this additional revenue source should be a welcome bonus. Failsafe believes that QSYS will become the defacto standard for carbon offset generation across a number of industries.
Failsafe Canada is the leading system provider for organizations
looking to aggregate offset credits. QSYS is a proven system that creates,
tracks, and manages verified emissions reductions, (VERs) within the
agriculture sector and is now able to handle other industry verticals
such as Biofuels, Afforestation, Wind and other renewable energy markets.
Failsafe Canada also provides MSys, an Offset management tool for final emitters.
Failsafe Canada provides technology, strategic consulting, and expert
operational services to assist in reducing costs and improving performance in
market operations, system operations support, and demand response programs.
Failsafe is a privately- held company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
Aggregation and partnership opportunities are available.For further information: Additional information can be obtain from
Failsafe Canada Inc. at (403) 313-6789 Ext 116 or 103 info@failsafecanada.com
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.
Please inquire about future seminars.
http://www.emissionsreduction.ca/
www.failsafecanada.com
#110, 3025– 12thStreet N.E. Calgary, Alberta T2E7J2 Tel: 403-313-6789
Failsafe Canada invites you to attend
A Carbon Cap and Trade Investment Opportunity Seminar
Titled
“Carbon Offsets – A Recession-proof, “Green” investment”
With Alberta as the first regulated market in North America, this is your opportunity to be among the first to realize profits from this growing global marketplace worth more than $30 billion a year. This seminar will educate investors on the investment opportunities available in a market backed by government legislation and solid science. You will have the opportunity to become a partner in a “Carbon Fund” created through a private trust that purchases viable carbon offset inventory for sale to organizations in regulated markets.
This is a rare chance to learn and have your questions answered by industry specialists from Canada and the US as well as Alberta government spokespersons on the profitable options available to you in this new innovative “Carbon” industry.
Two information sessions will be held in Calgary, Alberta on:
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at
10:30 am (Session 1)
1:30 pm (Session 2)
at Theatre Room · Sheraton Cavalier Hotel
2620 - 32nd Avenue NE · Calgary, Alberta
Call to reserve your place in one of the Calgary sessions.
(403) 313-6789, Ext. 104
or email
info@failsafecanada.com
Seating is limited – Reserve Now ·
Please inquire about future seminars.
http://www.emissionsreduction.ca/
www.failsafecanada.com
#110, 3025– 12thStreet N.E. Calgary, Alberta T2E7J2 Tel: 403-313-6789
Failsafe Canada invites you to attend
A Carbon Cap and Trade Investment Opportunity Seminar
Titled
“Carbon Offsets – A Recession-proof, “Green” investment”
With Alberta as the first regulated market in North America, this is your opportunity to be among the first to realize profits from this growing global marketplace worth more than $30 billion a year. This seminar will educate investors on the investment opportunities available in a market backed by government legislation and solid science. You will have the opportunity to become a partner in a “Carbon Fund” created through a private trust that purchases viable carbon offset inventory for sale to organizations in regulated markets.
This is a rare chance to learn and have your questions answered by industry specialists from Canada and the US as well as Alberta government spokespersons on the profitable options available to you in this new innovative “Carbon” industry.
Two information sessions will be held in Calgary, Alberta on:
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at
10:30 am (Session 1)
1:30 pm (Session 2)
at Theatre Room · Sheraton Cavalier Hotel
2620 - 32nd Avenue NE · Calgary, Alberta
Call to reserve your place in one of the Calgary sessions.
(403) 313-6789, Ext. 104
or email
info@failsafecanada.com
Seating is limited – Reserve Now ·
Monday, April 27, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Carbon Credit & Green House Gas Emission Solution
Welcome to EOS EMISSIONSREDUCTION.CA Emission Offset Solutions - QSys & MSys Your Carbon Credit & Green House Gas Emission Solution
EOS provides business solutions to companies who need to manage all or part of the carbon offset industry. EOS, has developed QSys, a science and web-based carbon information management tool for agriculture, energy and various other industry sectors. The QSys tool generates, quantifies and serializes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in the form of saleable offsets. QSys is the only complete ERP system on the market today to manage the complete offset life cycle. Operation of the QSys application is: • Transparent from end to end and highly automated • Readily scalable and easily customized • Compatible with various GHG quantification methodologies • Adaptable to various regulations and standardsEOS has also developed MSys for Large Final Emitters (LFE’s) to track and mange their internal carbon offset inventories.
Emissions Offset Solutions Corp., (EOS) is an Alberta-based private company that provides GHG Emission Reduction solutions to industry. EOS has developed software products and services that assist industry in defining, quantifying, validating, certifying, serializing, aggregating and selling “carbon offsets”. The company is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Failsafe Canada Inc., a provider of business solutions for the past 10 years. The management of Failsafe identified an ever increasing need to manage all aspects related to carbon-offset regulations and the subsequent opportunities for accessing and marketing emission reduction credits to large final emitters and governments. By deploying their systems globally and in various sectors, EOS intends to provide services in GHG quantification, verification, analysis of uncertainty, and audit and compliance reporting. Both GHG emitters and producers of carbon offset credits will benefit from these services which provide clear information upon which to assess and valuate respective assets and liabilities.
EOS Products and Services Overview
The EOS software products will assist groups and companies initiating GHG emission reduction projects as well as large organizations managing carbon credit portfolios. EOS's , two main applications, Offset Quantification System or QSYS, and, the Offset Management System MSYS, are market-proven systems which together will provide solutions for generators, aggregators and emitters to manage the entire carbon offset process. These systems help to solve complicated and detailed information generation and processing throughout the life cycle of a credit or “offset”. EOS is presently working with other partners to bring innovative solutions to the market which will include automatic base lining, banking and carbon footprint tracking. EOS also has a complete registry application available for regulatory bodies to manage their jurisdictional requirements.Environmental issues – along with the related business risks and opportunities – are of increasing concern to many companies around the world. But there is an international consensus that conventional accounting and information management practices simply do not provide adequate visibility to these issues, makingit a challenge for companies to recognize and address them. As a result, companies are paying increasing attention to Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) practices that enable companies to:
Plan and implement cost-effective compliance with environmental regulation and voluntary environmental policy Support the simultaneous reduction of business costs and environmental impacts via more efficient use of energy, waterand materials in internal operations and final products Support the evaluation and implementation of cost-effective and environmentally sensitive programs for ensuring the company’s long-term market and strategic position
Offset Quantification System (QSys)
The QSys application was initially developed for an aggregator of agricultural carbon credits under the Province of Alberta’s emissions reductions programs that were adopted in 2007. The goal was to develop an end to end enterprise solution designed to meet these unique technology needs. Accordingly,QSys integrates all data and processes into a unified system. It uses use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve this integration and uses a unified database to store data for all system modules. While this custom solution serves the hardware and software needs of any aggregator, it was developed in such a fashion that it can be utilized for all greenhouse gas reduction opportunities. QSys enables an entity to manage the entire lifecycle of a green house gas reduction project from “Cradle to Grave” by managing all data related to the identification, creation, tracking and selling of these credits. It provides support for managing all of the inputs (such as the properties, industry practices, historical information, property owners, property renters, service agreements and contracts for the appropriate protocol), the protocol coefficients, document creation, document management, the sales cycle and all of the necessary financial information . The core elements of this enterprise solution include:• Supply Chain Management• Credit creation, serialization and inventory management• Financial statements and other financial and operational reports• Customer relationship and contract management• Data warehousing and data/credit audit trail• Universal compliancy (CS0X, CCRA, Emission Audits)• Supply Chain Management • Credit creation, serialization and inventory management• Contact Management• Document Management
Offset Management System (MSYS)
MSYS is a system designed for use by Large Final Emitters who have acquired, and will continue to acquire offset credits from both internal projects and external sources. The complexities in the North American offset market are already becoming apparent as a result of the proliferation of different sources and pedigrees of offsets (such as Kyoto Protocol ERUs, CERs and VERs, a whole raft of Voluntary Emissions Reductions generated in various US locations, CUs, CDMs, EU denominated credits, Alberta VERs, Canadian (as yet untitled) credits, WCI (as yet untitled) credits, RGGI (as yet untitled) credits and US Federal (as yet untitled) credits. ) These credits all have different pedigrees and can only be used in specific jurisdictions, quickly complicating the decision-making process. MSYS will be used by emitters as an inventory management tool and they will also use the application as a decision-making tool when they are applying or retiring credits from this inventory. This product has already attracted interest from one of Alberta’s largest suppliers of electricity to both industrialand residential users, with who we are currently in a development project to include additional functionality specific to their needs.
EOS # 110 - 3025 - 12 St. N.E. Calgary Alberta Canada T2E-7J2
Office & Contact Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30AM to 4:30 PM MST
Phone: (403) 313 - 6789Ext. 103 or 104Fax: (403) 313 - 6792info@failsafecanada.com
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http://eworldwire.com/pdf/18333.pdf
http://www.eworldwire.com/pressreleases/18333
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2008/18/c5675.html
http://newsblaze.com/story/2008040112010200002.ew/topstory.html
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2008/22/c3922.html
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Carbon Credit Generator ( QSYS )
Application Overview
Background
The QSYS application was initially developed for an aggregator of agricultural carbon credits under the Province of Alberta’s emissions reductions programs that were adopted in 2007. The goal was to develop an end to end enterprise solution designed to meet these unique technology needs. Accordingly, QSYS integrates all data and processes into a unified system. It uses use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve this integration and uses a unified database to store data for all system modules. While this custom solution serves the hardware and software needs of any aggregator, it was developed in such a fashion that it can be adapted to other greenhouse gas reduction opportunities. This will be explained in more detail below.
QSYS enables an entity to mange the entire lifecycle of a green house gas reduction project from “Cradle to Grave” by managing all data related to the identification, creation, tracking and selling of these credits. It provides support for managing all of the inputs (such as the properties, farming practices, historical land use information, property owners, property renters, service agreements and contracts for the agricultural protocol), the protocol coefficients, document creation, document management, the sales cycle and all of the necessary financial information .
The core elements of this enterprise solution include:
Supply Chain Management
Credit creation, serialization and inventory management
Financial statements and other financial and operational reports
Customer relationship and contract management
Data warehousing and data/credit audit trail
Universal compliancy (CS0X, CCRA, Emission Audits)
The Front Office component of this enterprise solution is known as QSYS. QSYS encompasses the following elements of the enterprise solution.
Supply Chain Management
Credit creation, serialization and inventory management
Contact Management
Document Management
QSYS Technology
QSYS is a smart client application that uses the Internet to interact with XML Web services. It employs common user interface controls and has an easy to learn and user-navigation paradigm. Strong searching capabilities make locating specific data fast and easy. QSYS‘s liberal use of visual cues helps users find critical information quickly. QSYS supports attaching files or Web links to all critical data records. As such documents related to a specific property, person or contract for example can be retrieved from the database and displayed to the end user in seconds.
QSYS has been built on Epicor’s Clientele Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Built completely on Microsoft .NET, the QSYS application leverages the power of a service-oriented architecture to provide a robust data management solution. It leverages object-oriented development to provide powerful functionality. Customization is performed using Microsoft’s intuitive Visual Studio .NET development tool which means changes can be made using any of the numerous .NET-compatible programming languages. In addition, .NET-based architecture uses inheritance — allowing customizations to be isolated from source code, so future upgrades and migrations to the source code do not overwrite custom changes.
QSYS takes a unique approach to web-based applications by providing a rich windows client that communicates with Web services using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This “smart client” provides the benefits of a rich windows user interface with web-based accessibility. All QSYS communication can be encrypted by securing the application web server using Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
With QSYS greenhouse gas reduction projects are able to manage their data, business process and customer relationships by exploiting the benefits of the Microsoft .NET architecture, delivering powerful accessibility, extensibility and integration. Employing native Web services and XML throughout, QSYS makes integration to external applications easier and faster than ever.
QSYS Database and Data Security
QSYS currently utilizes two databases: a production database that runs on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and a reporting database that resides on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Direct access to both of these databases is restricted to database administrators. End users of the QSYS application and associated reports may only communicate to these databases via QSYS and SQL Server 2005 reporting services.
Audit tables that record the historical transactions on core database tables are in place. This means that should the need arise it is possible to retrieve a complete history of all data transactions for a specific property or land use record. This functionality is being expanded so that the transaction history of all data will be stored in audit tables.
Business rules, developed in the SQL Server database, have been implemented so that specific data cannot be deleted from the system once that data has been used to generate an approved offset credit.
The production database has recently been transferred to SQL Server 2005. In conjunction with this migration complete database audit trails and enhanced data security are now in place.
Data Management Life Cycle
QSYS is required to manage an enormous amount of data in order to generate and provide serialized green house gas reductions to large final emitters (LFE’s). In addition to managing this data, its security and integrity, QSYS must implement/enable business processes so that end users can work efficiently, confident that the application will respond in a timely and meaningful manner as they interact with it.
Some of the QSYS development team’s goals were:
Ease of data entry
Ease of data retrieval
Elimination of data entry errors (Data checks, drop down lists etc)
Generation of Meaningful reports
Capture of the right data
QSYS provides value by managing entities critical to the entity, and the codification of key business processes within the application.
The main entities in the system are:
Contacts
People
Groups
Organizations
Sales Agents
Properties
Historical land use
Historical farming practices
Legal descriptions
Land Title Records
Owners
Renters
Service Agreements
Contracts
Reductions/Credits
Protocols
Documents
QSYS enables the following business processes:
Contact Management
Manage Farmers (suppliers)
Manage Buyers (customers)
Manage Sales Agents
Manage Auditors
Manage Government Contacts
Land Management
Land Title Searches and Integration
Validate owner details
Validate legal description and other data
Property owners and renters
Capture, update and validate land use data year over year
Capture, update and validate farming practices year over year
Creation of Service Agreements and related documents
Associated land units with service agreements
Create contracts
Generate legal documents
Projected credits & other summary data
Manage Chart of Protocols
Manage credit creation and serialization
Inventory Management
Back office integration
The following diagram depicts the business process that is enabled in QSYS enterprise solutions. The Blue boxes indicate the process components that are enabled in QSYS while the green boxes show the business processes that are found in the back office financial application.
The above roadmap lays out the process for an Alberta-approved agricultural protocol. While adjustments will be made for other protocols, this gives the reader a good understanding of the overall process.
Farmers and their associated land units (properties) are entered into QSYS. The application ensures that all properties are unique by ensuring that legal land descriptions are unique. Land units are associated with a service agreement when they are entered into the system
Ownership of all properties is confirmed by conducting Land Title Searches. Land Title Data is imported into QSYS. Property owner contact data is update with land titles data where required.
Annual land use data and farming practices data is captured. QSYS’s data entry screens control what data is entered while business logic ensures that specific data constraints are adhered to.
Once all relevant data has been captured and ownership has been validated against land titles data contracts are created. These contracts consist of a digital contract record in QSYS as well as all relevant contract documents. These documents are generated from QSYS and contain all of the pertinent data related to each and every property included in the contract.
Contracts are delivered to property owners who review all land use and farming practice data. Once they have reviewed this data the contract may be signed and returned along with any other data that supports the farmers land use practices, such as crop insurance records.
Signed contracts are reviewed by senior internal staff. When a contract it is determined to be complete and correct it is approved by the reviewer. This event triggers a business process in the QSYS application that locks down all of the data related to the approved contract. This prevents this data from being deleted from the QSYS database and from being changed.
Offset credits are then generated by system based upon the chart of protocols in QSYS. The chart of protocols contains the information required to determine the number of Offset credits generated by each land use unit in a contract.
For each approved protocol the chart of protocols contains a list of all possible combinations of attribute data that are used to determine the coefficient to be applied to a land use record. If the attributes of a land use record do not match one of the unique records in the chart of protocols that land use record is given an offset credit of 0 tons.
If a match is found the area of the land use record and the corresponding protocol coefficient are used to determine the offset amount generated by the land use record and protocol.
As required, a third party auditor is charged with verifying the data and the protocols used to determine the offset credits generated by this process. This verification process adheres to the international standard ISO 14064 Part -3 Greenhouse Gases: Specification with guidance for the validation and verification of greenhouse gas assertions.
Upon successful completion of the third party audit an application is made to the Canadian Standards Association for their stamp of approval on the offset credits generated. Once approved serial numbers supplied by the CSA are attached to each offset credit, these serialized credits are then added to QSYS’s back office system as saleable inventory.
Offset Management System (MSYS)
The Offset Management System is an adaptation of QSYS. This system is designed for use by Large Final Emitters who have acquired, and will continue to acquire offset credits from both internal and external sources. This product has already attracted interest from EPCOR, one of Alberta’s largest suppliers of electricity to both industrial and residential users, with whom we are currently in a development project to include additional functionality specific to their needs.
For further information please contact:
QSYS EOS Office
Failsafe Canada Inc.
Suite 110 – 3025 – 12 St.
N.E. Calgary Alberta
Canada T2E-7J2
Offc 403 313 6789 Ext. 103 or 104
www.failsafecanada.com
Intelligent Business Solutions using Innovative Technology
EOS provides business solutions to companies who need to manage all or part of the carbon offset industry. EOS, has developed QSys, a science and web-based carbon information management tool for agriculture, energy and various other industry sectors. The QSys tool generates, quantifies and serializes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in the form of saleable offsets. QSys is the only complete ERP system on the market today to manage the complete offset life cycle. Operation of the QSys application is: • Transparent from end to end and highly automated • Readily scalable and easily customized • Compatible with various GHG quantification methodologies • Adaptable to various regulations and standardsEOS has also developed MSys for Large Final Emitters (LFE’s) to track and mange their internal carbon offset inventories.
Emissions Offset Solutions Corp., (EOS) is an Alberta-based private company that provides GHG Emission Reduction solutions to industry. EOS has developed software products and services that assist industry in defining, quantifying, validating, certifying, serializing, aggregating and selling “carbon offsets”. The company is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Failsafe Canada Inc., a provider of business solutions for the past 10 years. The management of Failsafe identified an ever increasing need to manage all aspects related to carbon-offset regulations and the subsequent opportunities for accessing and marketing emission reduction credits to large final emitters and governments. By deploying their systems globally and in various sectors, EOS intends to provide services in GHG quantification, verification, analysis of uncertainty, and audit and compliance reporting. Both GHG emitters and producers of carbon offset credits will benefit from these services which provide clear information upon which to assess and valuate respective assets and liabilities.
EOS Products and Services Overview
The EOS software products will assist groups and companies initiating GHG emission reduction projects as well as large organizations managing carbon credit portfolios. EOS's , two main applications, Offset Quantification System or QSYS, and, the Offset Management System MSYS, are market-proven systems which together will provide solutions for generators, aggregators and emitters to manage the entire carbon offset process. These systems help to solve complicated and detailed information generation and processing throughout the life cycle of a credit or “offset”. EOS is presently working with other partners to bring innovative solutions to the market which will include automatic base lining, banking and carbon footprint tracking. EOS also has a complete registry application available for regulatory bodies to manage their jurisdictional requirements.Environmental issues – along with the related business risks and opportunities – are of increasing concern to many companies around the world. But there is an international consensus that conventional accounting and information management practices simply do not provide adequate visibility to these issues, makingit a challenge for companies to recognize and address them. As a result, companies are paying increasing attention to Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) practices that enable companies to:
Plan and implement cost-effective compliance with environmental regulation and voluntary environmental policy Support the simultaneous reduction of business costs and environmental impacts via more efficient use of energy, waterand materials in internal operations and final products Support the evaluation and implementation of cost-effective and environmentally sensitive programs for ensuring the company’s long-term market and strategic position
Offset Quantification System (QSys)
The QSys application was initially developed for an aggregator of agricultural carbon credits under the Province of Alberta’s emissions reductions programs that were adopted in 2007. The goal was to develop an end to end enterprise solution designed to meet these unique technology needs. Accordingly,QSys integrates all data and processes into a unified system. It uses use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve this integration and uses a unified database to store data for all system modules. While this custom solution serves the hardware and software needs of any aggregator, it was developed in such a fashion that it can be utilized for all greenhouse gas reduction opportunities. QSys enables an entity to manage the entire lifecycle of a green house gas reduction project from “Cradle to Grave” by managing all data related to the identification, creation, tracking and selling of these credits. It provides support for managing all of the inputs (such as the properties, industry practices, historical information, property owners, property renters, service agreements and contracts for the appropriate protocol), the protocol coefficients, document creation, document management, the sales cycle and all of the necessary financial information . The core elements of this enterprise solution include:• Supply Chain Management• Credit creation, serialization and inventory management• Financial statements and other financial and operational reports• Customer relationship and contract management• Data warehousing and data/credit audit trail• Universal compliancy (CS0X, CCRA, Emission Audits)• Supply Chain Management • Credit creation, serialization and inventory management• Contact Management• Document Management
Offset Management System (MSYS)
MSYS is a system designed for use by Large Final Emitters who have acquired, and will continue to acquire offset credits from both internal projects and external sources. The complexities in the North American offset market are already becoming apparent as a result of the proliferation of different sources and pedigrees of offsets (such as Kyoto Protocol ERUs, CERs and VERs, a whole raft of Voluntary Emissions Reductions generated in various US locations, CUs, CDMs, EU denominated credits, Alberta VERs, Canadian (as yet untitled) credits, WCI (as yet untitled) credits, RGGI (as yet untitled) credits and US Federal (as yet untitled) credits. ) These credits all have different pedigrees and can only be used in specific jurisdictions, quickly complicating the decision-making process. MSYS will be used by emitters as an inventory management tool and they will also use the application as a decision-making tool when they are applying or retiring credits from this inventory. This product has already attracted interest from one of Alberta’s largest suppliers of electricity to both industrialand residential users, with who we are currently in a development project to include additional functionality specific to their needs.
EOS # 110 - 3025 - 12 St. N.E. Calgary Alberta Canada T2E-7J2
Office & Contact Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30AM to 4:30 PM MST
Phone: (403) 313 - 6789Ext. 103 or 104Fax: (403) 313 - 6792info@failsafecanada.com
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http://eworldwire.com/pdf/18333.pdf
http://www.eworldwire.com/pressreleases/18333
http://www.cnw.ca/en/releases/archive/July2008/18/c5675.html
http://newsblaze.com/story/2008040112010200002.ew/topstory.html
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2008/22/c3922.html
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Carbon Credit Generator ( QSYS )
Application Overview
Background
The QSYS application was initially developed for an aggregator of agricultural carbon credits under the Province of Alberta’s emissions reductions programs that were adopted in 2007. The goal was to develop an end to end enterprise solution designed to meet these unique technology needs. Accordingly, QSYS integrates all data and processes into a unified system. It uses use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve this integration and uses a unified database to store data for all system modules. While this custom solution serves the hardware and software needs of any aggregator, it was developed in such a fashion that it can be adapted to other greenhouse gas reduction opportunities. This will be explained in more detail below.
QSYS enables an entity to mange the entire lifecycle of a green house gas reduction project from “Cradle to Grave” by managing all data related to the identification, creation, tracking and selling of these credits. It provides support for managing all of the inputs (such as the properties, farming practices, historical land use information, property owners, property renters, service agreements and contracts for the agricultural protocol), the protocol coefficients, document creation, document management, the sales cycle and all of the necessary financial information .
The core elements of this enterprise solution include:
Supply Chain Management
Credit creation, serialization and inventory management
Financial statements and other financial and operational reports
Customer relationship and contract management
Data warehousing and data/credit audit trail
Universal compliancy (CS0X, CCRA, Emission Audits)
The Front Office component of this enterprise solution is known as QSYS. QSYS encompasses the following elements of the enterprise solution.
Supply Chain Management
Credit creation, serialization and inventory management
Contact Management
Document Management
QSYS Technology
QSYS is a smart client application that uses the Internet to interact with XML Web services. It employs common user interface controls and has an easy to learn and user-navigation paradigm. Strong searching capabilities make locating specific data fast and easy. QSYS‘s liberal use of visual cues helps users find critical information quickly. QSYS supports attaching files or Web links to all critical data records. As such documents related to a specific property, person or contract for example can be retrieved from the database and displayed to the end user in seconds.
QSYS has been built on Epicor’s Clientele Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Built completely on Microsoft .NET, the QSYS application leverages the power of a service-oriented architecture to provide a robust data management solution. It leverages object-oriented development to provide powerful functionality. Customization is performed using Microsoft’s intuitive Visual Studio .NET development tool which means changes can be made using any of the numerous .NET-compatible programming languages. In addition, .NET-based architecture uses inheritance — allowing customizations to be isolated from source code, so future upgrades and migrations to the source code do not overwrite custom changes.
QSYS takes a unique approach to web-based applications by providing a rich windows client that communicates with Web services using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This “smart client” provides the benefits of a rich windows user interface with web-based accessibility. All QSYS communication can be encrypted by securing the application web server using Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
With QSYS greenhouse gas reduction projects are able to manage their data, business process and customer relationships by exploiting the benefits of the Microsoft .NET architecture, delivering powerful accessibility, extensibility and integration. Employing native Web services and XML throughout, QSYS makes integration to external applications easier and faster than ever.
QSYS Database and Data Security
QSYS currently utilizes two databases: a production database that runs on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and a reporting database that resides on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Direct access to both of these databases is restricted to database administrators. End users of the QSYS application and associated reports may only communicate to these databases via QSYS and SQL Server 2005 reporting services.
Audit tables that record the historical transactions on core database tables are in place. This means that should the need arise it is possible to retrieve a complete history of all data transactions for a specific property or land use record. This functionality is being expanded so that the transaction history of all data will be stored in audit tables.
Business rules, developed in the SQL Server database, have been implemented so that specific data cannot be deleted from the system once that data has been used to generate an approved offset credit.
The production database has recently been transferred to SQL Server 2005. In conjunction with this migration complete database audit trails and enhanced data security are now in place.
Data Management Life Cycle
QSYS is required to manage an enormous amount of data in order to generate and provide serialized green house gas reductions to large final emitters (LFE’s). In addition to managing this data, its security and integrity, QSYS must implement/enable business processes so that end users can work efficiently, confident that the application will respond in a timely and meaningful manner as they interact with it.
Some of the QSYS development team’s goals were:
Ease of data entry
Ease of data retrieval
Elimination of data entry errors (Data checks, drop down lists etc)
Generation of Meaningful reports
Capture of the right data
QSYS provides value by managing entities critical to the entity, and the codification of key business processes within the application.
The main entities in the system are:
Contacts
People
Groups
Organizations
Sales Agents
Properties
Historical land use
Historical farming practices
Legal descriptions
Land Title Records
Owners
Renters
Service Agreements
Contracts
Reductions/Credits
Protocols
Documents
QSYS enables the following business processes:
Contact Management
Manage Farmers (suppliers)
Manage Buyers (customers)
Manage Sales Agents
Manage Auditors
Manage Government Contacts
Land Management
Land Title Searches and Integration
Validate owner details
Validate legal description and other data
Property owners and renters
Capture, update and validate land use data year over year
Capture, update and validate farming practices year over year
Creation of Service Agreements and related documents
Associated land units with service agreements
Create contracts
Generate legal documents
Projected credits & other summary data
Manage Chart of Protocols
Manage credit creation and serialization
Inventory Management
Back office integration
The following diagram depicts the business process that is enabled in QSYS enterprise solutions. The Blue boxes indicate the process components that are enabled in QSYS while the green boxes show the business processes that are found in the back office financial application.
The above roadmap lays out the process for an Alberta-approved agricultural protocol. While adjustments will be made for other protocols, this gives the reader a good understanding of the overall process.
Farmers and their associated land units (properties) are entered into QSYS. The application ensures that all properties are unique by ensuring that legal land descriptions are unique. Land units are associated with a service agreement when they are entered into the system
Ownership of all properties is confirmed by conducting Land Title Searches. Land Title Data is imported into QSYS. Property owner contact data is update with land titles data where required.
Annual land use data and farming practices data is captured. QSYS’s data entry screens control what data is entered while business logic ensures that specific data constraints are adhered to.
Once all relevant data has been captured and ownership has been validated against land titles data contracts are created. These contracts consist of a digital contract record in QSYS as well as all relevant contract documents. These documents are generated from QSYS and contain all of the pertinent data related to each and every property included in the contract.
Contracts are delivered to property owners who review all land use and farming practice data. Once they have reviewed this data the contract may be signed and returned along with any other data that supports the farmers land use practices, such as crop insurance records.
Signed contracts are reviewed by senior internal staff. When a contract it is determined to be complete and correct it is approved by the reviewer. This event triggers a business process in the QSYS application that locks down all of the data related to the approved contract. This prevents this data from being deleted from the QSYS database and from being changed.
Offset credits are then generated by system based upon the chart of protocols in QSYS. The chart of protocols contains the information required to determine the number of Offset credits generated by each land use unit in a contract.
For each approved protocol the chart of protocols contains a list of all possible combinations of attribute data that are used to determine the coefficient to be applied to a land use record. If the attributes of a land use record do not match one of the unique records in the chart of protocols that land use record is given an offset credit of 0 tons.
If a match is found the area of the land use record and the corresponding protocol coefficient are used to determine the offset amount generated by the land use record and protocol.
As required, a third party auditor is charged with verifying the data and the protocols used to determine the offset credits generated by this process. This verification process adheres to the international standard ISO 14064 Part -3 Greenhouse Gases: Specification with guidance for the validation and verification of greenhouse gas assertions.
Upon successful completion of the third party audit an application is made to the Canadian Standards Association for their stamp of approval on the offset credits generated. Once approved serial numbers supplied by the CSA are attached to each offset credit, these serialized credits are then added to QSYS’s back office system as saleable inventory.
Offset Management System (MSYS)
The Offset Management System is an adaptation of QSYS. This system is designed for use by Large Final Emitters who have acquired, and will continue to acquire offset credits from both internal and external sources. This product has already attracted interest from EPCOR, one of Alberta’s largest suppliers of electricity to both industrial and residential users, with whom we are currently in a development project to include additional functionality specific to their needs.
For further information please contact:
QSYS EOS Office
Failsafe Canada Inc.
Suite 110 – 3025 – 12 St.
N.E. Calgary Alberta
Canada T2E-7J2
Offc 403 313 6789 Ext. 103 or 104
www.failsafecanada.com
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