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

• 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)