Canadian Biogas Investments names new president and CEO

Canadian Biogas Investments Inc. (CBI), a Calgary-based developer of dry fermentation anaerobic digestion projects, has named James (Jim) B. Hartwell as president, CEO and chairman of CBI’s board of directors.

With more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry, Hartwell will play a role in CBI’s planning, operations and fundraising activities as the company scales its renewable natural gas (RNG) platform across Canada. CBI says his leadership will support its mandate to deliver infrastructure-scale biogas projects that create long-term value.

CBI has secured exclusive Canadian rights to license solid-state anaerobic digestion technology from Renergon, a biogas and biogenic waste solutions company based in Germany and Switzerland. The dry-fermentation anaerobic digestion system is designed to handle higher dry-matter feedstocks versus conventional wet anaerobic digestion.

This project is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2027 and is anticipated to process 88.18 thousand tons of onsite cattle manure, generating approximately 250,000 gigajoules of pipeline grade RNG annually.

Additionally, CBI has confirmed the site of its first commercial facility at the Driland Feeders feedlot in Warner County, Alberta. To execute the flagship project, CBI has retained Calgary, Alberta-based Cana Construction as its project design and management partner, Calgary-based Obsidian Engineering as lead engineering consultant, Red Deer, Alberta-based Green Analytics as its environmental consulting partner and Brampton, Ontario-based Exp as its regulatory advisor.

“I am excited to join Canadian Biogas at this pivotal stage,” Hartwell says. “Renergon’s RDS technology, combined with strong partners like Driland Feeders, Cana Construction, Obsidian Engineering, Green Analytics and EXP, creates a compelling platform for scalable, low-carbon energy and meaningful methane reductions across Canada’s cattle industry.”