Helmholtz centre pulls out of U of A initiative

Guest Contributor
April 3, 2013

The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig Germany, has pulled out of the Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative, a collaborative venture with the Univ of Alberta launched in 2011 with $25 million in provincial funding. The upcoming German election, controversy over Canada's environmental record and its withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol led to the decision to declare a moratorium on joint research into improving the upgrading of oilsands bitumen. Three other Helmholtz centres remain engaged in the joint initiative....


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