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Targeted Geoscience Initiative TGI-2 (2003-2005)
The Government of Canada committed $10M over two years to extend the mission of the original three-year Targeted Geoscience Initiative Program with a renewed focus on the energy sector, including energy-oriented activities in Canada's North. The Targeted Geoscience Initiative provided integrated geoscience knowledge pertaining to areas of high energy and mineral potential, with the intent of stimulating private-sector resource exploration. TGI is, by definition, a partnership program, delivered in collaboration with provincial and territorial geological surveys with participation by industry and universities. TGI outputs and outcomes for fiscal years 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 were delivered through projects that were part of both the Northern Resources Development (NRD) and Consolidating Canada's Geoscience Knowledge (CCGK) programs.
Committed Outputs
- New multi-thematic regional geoscience analyses and syntheses for northern areas with resource potential
- 10 percent of existing northern data converted into GIS and Web-enabled formats
- Predictive models for hydrocarbons of prospective northern basins and all known mineral deposit types over 15 percent of the North
- Syntheses, analyses and watching briefs on key areas for resource exploration and related sustainable development relevance, such as in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Atlantic and Eastern Canada
Committed Outcomes
- Digital, Web-enabled geoscience data contributes to Earth-science investment decisions in the North
- Northern investment in exploration, development and resource extraction increases significantly from 2002/2003 levels
- Increased Canadian competitiveness for attracting industrial investments in energy and mineral exploration and development sustained through timely knowledge transfers
TGI - 2 projects (2003-2005) |
- The Mackenzie Corridor: Access to Northern Resources (NWT)
- Geoscience for Sustainable Communities & Economic Development in the Mackenzie Delta - Beaufort Sea Region (NWT)
- Integrated Petroleum Resource Potential and Geoscience Studies of the Bowser and Sustut basins (Northern B.C.)
- Shallow gas and diamond opportunities in Northern Alberta and B.C.
- New Energy Options for Northerners (NU & NF, offshore)
- The Trans-Hudson / Superior Margin Metallotect (SK, MB, NU, ON, QC, NF)
- Boothia Peninsula Integrated Geoscience Project (NU)
- Cordilleran Minerals, Atlin, Bella Coola and Toodoggone areas, B.C.
- Stewart River project, Yukon: Geoscience maps to mineral wealth in the Dawson District
- Slave Province minerals and geoscience compilation and synthesis
- Western Churchill metallogeny project
- Geoscience experience for northern communities (GENCOM)
- Resource identification through remote predictive mapping (RPM)
- Hydrocarbon Potential, Sverdrup Basin (NU)
- Whitehorse Trough Hydrocarbon Potential (YT)
- Williston Basin Hydrocarbon Potential (SK & MB)
- Southern Ontario Hydrocarbon Resource Evaluation and Regional Stratigraphic Synthesis
- Appalachian Energy (QC, NB, NS, NF)
- Surficial Mapping, Central Mineral Belt, Labrador
- Ni-Cu-PGE Potential, Lake Nipigon Region (ON)
- Diamondiferous Kimberlites, Fort a la Corne (SK)
- Marrtown Aeromagnetic Survey (NB)
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