What Is Your
Shit Worth?
You've been pitched before. Ethanol. Solar leases. Wind turbines. You smiled, you nodded, and you waited for them to leave. You were right to be skeptical every single time. The difference this time is one thing: the buyers are required by law to purchase.
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Your Cows Make Methane.
That Methane Is Worth Money.
Your cows produce manure. That manure releases methane. Under Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations, oil companies are legally required to reduce the carbon in their fuel. The cheapest way for them to do that is to buy credits from someone who captures methane. Your cows produce methane every single day. We own the machine that captures it. You provide the manure. You keep half the money.
Built for Canadian livestock producers. Operating under Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR), administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). Provincial programmes in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
Revenue Calculator
Here's What Yours Is Worth
Four questions. Your number appears. Every calculation uses published IPCC emission factors[7] and current federal credit prices.[8]
Estimated Annual Carbon Credit Revenue Range
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Your Net Income
Operating Levy (50%)
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Service Fee (per head)
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The farm visit costs you nothing. We come to your operation, walk your barn, and show you the numbers — no charge, no obligation.
If you decide to proceed, a per-head service fee applies (Dairy $16.50 • Beef $12.50 • Swine $1.25 • Poultry $8.50/100 birds) — roughly $2,500 on a typical operation.
That fee is fully refundable if the project doesn't go ahead for any reason — financing denied, permit issues, or you simply change your mind. If the project succeeds, the fee is deducted from your first commission cheque.
Your risk at every stage: $0.
Assumptions behind this estimate
This estimate uses IPCC Tier 2 emission factors for your livestock type, applied to the manure management system you selected. The range reflects typical variation in real-world digester capture efficiency (85–100% of theoretical maximum). Actual results depend on herd composition, manure solids content, digester uptime, local climate, gas upgrading losses, and verification requirements. Carbon credit prices used: $350/tonne in BC (combined federal CFR and provincial LCFS), $222.50/tonne in other provinces (federal CFR only). These prices reflect recent market data and the legislated compliance ceiling — actual transaction prices may vary. This calculator provides an indicative estimate for preliminary assessment. A full carbon feasibility audit provides farm-specific calculations using the federal GHGenius and Fuel LCA models.
Your Investment
It Costs You Nothing.
Read that again. No loan. No deposit. No down payment. No personal guarantee. No lien on your farm. No lien on your equipment. No lien on anything you own. ACC owns the digester. ACC finances it through Farm Credit Canada. ACC maintains it. ACC insures it. The digester is ACC's asset sitting on your land. Your chequebook never opens.
The digester does not appear on your balance sheet. No debt is registered in your name. Your existing FCC mortgage, your operating line, your equipment loans — completely unaffected. ACC's loan is ACC's problem. Your banker doesn't need to approve anything because you are not borrowing anything.
If the project doesn't go ahead for any reason — financing denied, permit issues, you change your mind — the per-head service fee (~$2,500) is fully refunded within 30 days. If the project succeeds, the fee is deducted from your first commission cheque. Net lifetime cost to you: $0.
You are not locked in for 20 years. The site access agreement is 20 years, but either party can terminate with 90 days written notice after Year 3. No penalty. No buyout. If you terminate, ACC removes its equipment at its own expense. You owe nothing.
Who Pays for the Digester — And It Isn't You
A typical 100-cow dairy digester installation. Every dollar accounted for.
Government Grants — $75,000
Federal and provincial programmes. ACC files every application on your behalf.
ACC Capital — $325,000
ACC provides the equity cushion from its lending pool and borrows the balance from Farm Credit Canada. This is ACC's loan, secured against ACC's equipment. Your name is not on it.
Your Cash Contribution — $0
Nothing. No deposit. No down payment. No personal guarantee. No lien on your land.
Total Project Cost
$400,000
Digester + site preparation + commissioning
Your Cash Down
$0
No deposit. No down payment. No cheque.
Your Monthly Payment
$0 from your pocket
There is no loan in your name. ACC owns the equipment and finances it. Your 50% share arrives in your account with the 50% levy already deducted — that levy covers everything including ACC's own financing.
Project costs vary by farm size, site conditions, and available grants. The figures above are for a typical 100-cow dairy. Your feasibility audit will show the exact capital stack for your specific operation.
What Changes
Here's What Changes on Your Farm
Not credits. Not regulations. Not abstract revenue. These are the physical, tangible, today changes you'll see on your operation.
The propane truck stops coming.
Biogas from your digester replaces the propane you've been buying for years. The credits are abstract. The propane truck not showing up is concrete.
Your fertiliser bill drops.
Digestate from the process replaces synthetic nitrogen on your fields. As fertiliser costs rise, this saving rises with them.
Your lagoon stops being a liability.
Methane captured instead of vented. Environmental farm plan risk item resolved. Manure goes from compliance cost to income source.
The odour drops 90%.
Anaerobic digestion reduces odour emissions by approximately 90% compared to open-lagoon storage.[16] Your neighbours will notice. Your wife already has.
What You're Leaving on the Table
You already know what propane costs. You already know what the power bill is. Here's what changes when your cows start paying those bills for you.
Run the calculator above first to see your personalized cost comparison.
Surplus biogas that you can't use on-farm can generate electricity, be upgraded to renewable natural gas for pipeline injection at 4–12× conventional gas prices,[10] or be compressed as vehicle fuel. Each option generates additional credits we manage for you. The surplus is a second revenue stream we develop over time. Approximately 15–18 months from first visit to first credit cheque. During that time, your digester begins generating bedding, fertiliser, and heating savings immediately upon operation.
Revenue Breakdown
What's in It for Us? Fifty Percent.
We'll say it plainly. ACC keeps 50% of the gross revenue. That 50% is not a fee you're paying for nothing. Here is exactly what it covers: debt service on $400,000 worth of equipment that ACC owns and financed. Maintenance. Monitoring. Insurance. Compliance filing. Credit trading. Gas offtake management. Grant applications. Administration. The full operating cost of a company you own a share of. ACC only earns when you earn. If your digester stops, our revenue stops too. And unlike the solar lease company, ACC owns $400,000 worth of equipment sitting on your land. We have more skin in the game than you do.
How the Money Flows — 100-Cow Dairy
Your Net Income
$237,840/year
From an asset ACC owns and operates on your land. On top of your existing farm income.
Operating Levy
$59,460/year
Covers all compliance, credit sales, monitoring, maintenance — the full operating cost of a company you own.
From manure you were going to throw away. Your out-of-pocket cost over 20 years: $0.
On your operation, you still net over $131,000 a year after the levy. The 50% is not a fee. It is the operating cost of a company you own. Can you do this yourself? In theory, yes — the portal is public. In practice, it requires lifecycle analysis in two government software tools, third-party verification, annual compliance filings, and credit aggregation. That's why 98% of agricultural methane goes uncaptured.
Revenue sources vary by province, project structure, and pathway eligibility. Not all value streams apply to every farm.
Risk
What If It All Goes Wrong?
So some guy flies in from British Columbia, sits at your kitchen table, and tells you your manure is worth over $210,000 a year. He says his company pays for the equipment, the government covers part of it with grants, and you never write a cheque. He says oil companies are legally required to buy what comes out of your lagoon.
You've been farming long enough to know what this sounds like. Fair enough.
Here are the three scenarios you're actually worried about — and what happens in each one.
Scenario 1: Credit price crashes to $150/tonne
That's less than half the current spot price. Your credit revenue drops from $262,500 to $112,500. Add gas and fertiliser and your gross revenue is approximately $147,300. After the operating levy, you net roughly $85,000 per year.
That's a real haircut from $210,000. It's also $85,000 per year in new income that didn't exist before you installed the digester. From manure. That you were throwing away.
Scenario 2: Credits go to zero — every programme repealed
Every carbon credit programme in Canada is repealed simultaneously. Federal and provincial. All of them. This requires dismantling multiple statutes across multiple jurisdictions.
You still have a digester. It still produces methane every day. That methane still has thermal energy — 9.97 kWh per cubic metre, governed by thermodynamics, not Parliament. Your RNG still sells to the utility because provincial gas mandates are separate legislation. Your digestate still replaces synthetic nitrogen on your fields.
At zero credit revenue, your digester still generates approximately $34,800 per year in gas sales and fertiliser savings. That's not $280,000. It's $34,800 from an asset that's already paid for, on land you already own, processing manure you were going to throw away.
Scenario 3: ACC goes under
You own a Class B membership share, not the digester. ACC owns the digester. If ACC goes under, the digester and all associated contracts become part of ACC's receivership or restructuring. A successor company or the cooperative's remaining members would likely continue operations — the equipment is still producing methane, the credits still have value, the gas still sells.
Your revenue may be disrupted during transition, but the physical asset on your land continues to function. There are currently fewer than five companies in Canada that can provide this service. If ACC succeeds in proving the model, there will be fifty within five years. You'll have options.
In no scenario do you lose your farm. In no scenario do you owe money. Physics doesn't have an election cycle.
The worst realistic outcome is that credit prices drop significantly and you earn $85,000 per year instead of $210,000. The worst catastrophic outcome is that every carbon programme in the country is repealed and you earn $34,800 per year from gas and fertiliser. The worst total outcome is that ACC can't arrange financing and you're out $2,500 — which is refundable.
Every other question you're thinking right now
What if the federal government repeals the Clean Fuel Regulations?
Your gas still sells. Your fertiliser savings remain. Your digester is paid off. Your loan is already paid off by the time any repeal could realistically pass — repealing federal legislation requires a bill through the House and the Senate, which takes years, not days.
What if Poilievre kills the carbon tax?
The consumer carbon tax — the one at the gas pump — is politically vulnerable. But your credits are sold under the Output-Based Pricing System and the Clean Fuel Regulations — the industrial compliance mechanisms that require large emitters and fuel producers to buy offset credits. These have bipartisan industry support because they protect Canadian exporters from carbon border adjustments. Repealing the OBPS would expose Canadian manufacturers to trade penalties from Europe and the United States. No Prime Minister is going to invite a trade war to score a domestic political point.
What if the digester breaks and can't be fixed?
Biolectric has installed over 300 systems across twelve countries. Say the digester suffers a catastrophic failure in Year 3 and cannot be repaired. You've collected approximately $445,950 in royalty income over three years. ACC's equipment is destroyed, but you never owned it and you never owed on it. You're ahead by $445,950 on an asset that was never yours to lose.
What if I can't get financing?
You don't get a digester. But you're not out anything — the service fee is fully refundable if the project doesn't proceed for any reason, including financing denial. You get your money back within 30 days. You also keep the professional report showing exactly what your manure is worth.
What if the science is wrong?
The emission factors are published by the IPCC and peer-reviewed across 195 member countries. If the IPCC emission factors for livestock methane are materially wrong, the entire global climate science framework has a problem that extends well beyond your farm.
So what's actually the riskiest thing on my farm?
You already know the answer. It's everything you're already doing. Your milk price can drop 40% because someone in New Zealand decided to dump powder on the world market. Your corn can burn up in July. Your best cow can go down on a Sunday night. You manage all of that. You've always managed all of that. And you're still here. The digester revenue comes from federal law, not a commodity board. The input is manure — your cows make it whether milk is $8 or $4. The equipment is owned, insured, and maintained by ACC. The debt coverage ratio on ACC's loan is 9 to 1.
And at the very least — if the credits drop, if the politicians change their minds, if every worst case on this page comes true — you come out of it with ACC's digester on your land turning your shit into home and barn heating, paid for by the oil companies. Well. That's one for our side.
Project Modeller
Don't Take Our Word for It. Break It Yourself.
You just read what happens when things go wrong. Now take the controls. Drag the credit price to zero. Set the worst-case assumptions. Try to make the model fail. Every number updates in real time. The math is transparent — and the moment you realise you can't break it is the moment you're past the fear and into belief.
Refundable Signing Fee: $1,650
The farm visit costs you nothing — no charge, no obligation. This signing fee only applies if you decide to proceed after seeing your numbers. It is fully refundable if the project does not go ahead for any reason. If the project succeeds, this fee is deducted from your first commission cheque.
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Where Your Revenue Goes — Year by Year
These calculations use IPCC Tier 2 emission factors, standard amortisation, and the inputs you selected. They are indicative estimates for preliminary assessment, not guaranteed returns. Actual project economics depend on site-specific conditions, regulatory pathway approval, and market prices at time of credit sale. A full ACC carbon feasibility audit provides farm-specific calculations using the federal GHGenius and Fuel LCA models.
What nobody told you yet
You're Not a Customer.
You're a Partner.
Everything above this section was convincing you the digester works. This section tells you it's bigger than a digester.
When you sign, you receive a partnership stake in Anderson Carbon Capture. Not a token. Not a loyalty card. An actual ownership share in the company. You own a piece of ACC — not just your digester, the whole company. As ACC grows and deploys more digesters across Canada, your stake appreciates. You're not hiring a contractor. You're joining a business.
Your 50% revenue is your current income. Your partnership share is your stake in a growing enterprise. The two are separate. One pays your bills today. The other builds your family's wealth over time.
"You don't hire us. You join us."
The second thing nobody told you
You Earn from Every Farm
That Joins After You.
A percentage of ACC's profit from every farm in the network flows into a pool. That pool is distributed to partners — and only partners — weighted by join order. Farm #1 earns from every farm that joins after them. Farm #50 earns from farms 51 onward. The earlier you sign, the more farms pay you. Every day you wait, another farm signs ahead of you and your lifetime residual income drops permanently.
The partnership window closes. After a set number of farms, no more partners are accepted. Every farm after that is a service contract — still a great deal, still life-changing income, but no partnership, no residual, no ownership. The door is open now. It won't be forever.
"The best number in this company is the lowest one."
Get Started
Call Tom.
Over coffee. No bullshit. ☕
There's no deadline, no pressure, and no salesman on commission. Talk it over at home. Print the legislation and read it — it's public. Call us back when you're ready. The only thing that costs you anything is saying no to $284,000 a year.
No obligation. No cost until your credits sell. Tell us about your farm and our team will be in touch within 48 hours.
The Process
How It Works
We handle everything between your manure and your money. You farm. We do the rest.
We Visit Your Farm
Our team comes to your operation, walks your barn, measures your lagoon, and collects the data needed for the carbon intensity calculation. One visit. Two to three hours. This visit costs you nothing — no obligation, no commitment. If you like what you see and decide to proceed, a per-head service fee applies at that point. That fee is fully refundable if the project doesn't go ahead, and deducted from your first cheque if it does.
We Fund Your Digester
ACC applies for every available government grant that fits your operation — federal and provincial.[5] Grant programmes open and close; we track them so you don't have to. Whatever the grants don't cover, ACC finances directly through Farm Credit Canada. ACC owns the digester. ACC carries the debt. ACC pays for the equipment from the revenue it generates. You don't borrow money. You don't sign a loan. You don't make a payment. Your chequebook never opens.
We Handle All Compliance
We register your farm in the federal government's CFR-CATS portal administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada[6], file your pathway application, coordinate third-party verification, and manage annual compliance reporting. We monitor your digester remotely from our dashboard. You never touch a government form.
We Sell Your Credits & Send Your Cheque
We pool your credits with other farms in the cooperative for institutional-scale volume and better prices. The buyers are oil companies required by law to purchase credits. 50% of the revenue goes to your bank account. ACC retains 50% as the cooperative levy — covering equipment financing, maintenance, insurance, monitoring, compliance, and credit trading. Every payment comes with a statement showing exactly what your cows produced and what it sold for. The 50% is not a fee. It is the operating cost of a company you own.
This is for you if:
You have dairy cattle, beef cattle, hogs, or poultry in a confined or semi-confined operation. Your manure is currently stored in a lagoon, pit, or covered storage. You're in a province where CFR pathways and RNG offtake are accessible. You're open to a 12–18 month process from audit to first revenue.
This is probably not for you if:
Your operation is exclusively pasture-based with no manure collection. Your herd is under 50 dairy-equivalent head. You already have a digester and an existing credit management arrangement. You're looking for guaranteed returns — we provide estimates based on published science and current market data, not guarantees.
Your Timeline
From Kitchen Table to First Cheque
Here's exactly what happens, step by step, from the day we sit down at your kitchen table to the day your first cheque arrives.
What happens during the wait?
The Decision
Anderson Carbon Capture — 100-Head Dairy
A Benjamin Franklin decision sheet. Every question a farmer asks at the kitchen table — and every honest answer.
20-year gross revenue from your manure
$5,683,500
$284,175/yr × 20 years — credits + gas + fertiliser savings
Your total out-of-pocket cost
$0
Farm visit at no cost. If you proceed, a per-head service fee (~$2,500 typical) is fully refundable if the project doesn't complete — for any reason. If it does complete, the fee comes back from your first commission cheque. Net lifetime cost to you: $0.
What you get
$249,375/year in carbon credit revenue
750 tonnes[7] × $350[8], less the operating levy. Your net: over $210,000/year. Fuel producers are required to reduce carbon intensity by purchasing credits, and agricultural methane capture is an eligible pathway under the CFR.[2]
$4,987,500 over 20 yearsCredit prices are rising, not flat
CI targets tighten every year through 2030.[2] The compliance ceiling hit $319/credit in 2024,[8] with forward pricing above $350.[9] At $500/tonne your net income exceeds $300,000/year.
The rules say the targets get tighter every year. That means your credits get more valuable, not less.$26,800/year in gas sales — no politics required
Your surplus methane, upgraded to pipeline quality, sold to utilities at 4–12× conventional gas prices.[10] This revenue exists regardless of carbon credit legislation.
$536,000 over 20 years — policy-independent$8,000/year in fertiliser savings
Digestate replaces synthetic nitrogen on your fields.[11] As fertiliser costs rise, this number rises with them.
$160,000 over 20 yearsAn asset on your land that produces for 20+ years
ACC applies for every available grant[5] and finances the balance. ACC owns the digester. ACC carries the debt. ACC services it from the 50% levy. No loan appears on your balance sheet. No payment comes out of your pocket. The digester is ACC's asset, on your land, earning you money.
You own equity in the cooperative
You receive a Class B membership share in Anderson Carbon Capture when the digester is deployed on your farm. You don't buy this share — it's issued as part of the site access agreement. As ACC grows and deploys more digesters, your share appreciates. Your 50% revenue is your current income. Your Class B share is your stake in a growing enterprise.
ACC owns and operates everything
ACC owns the digester, finances it, maintains it, insures it, monitors it, and manages every piece of paperwork between your manure and your money. See How It Works above. You provide the manure.
Your lagoon stops being a liability
Methane captured instead of vented. Environmental farm plan risk item resolved. Manure goes from compliance cost to income source.
What you're really asking at this table
"This sounds too good to be true."
It does. But the numbers aren't projections — they're arithmetic applied to published emission factors,[7] published credit prices,[8] and federal law.[2]
Ask us to show you the math. It's four equations."What if the carbon credit price crashes?"
The digester is paid for. The gas still sells. The fertiliser savings remain. Even at half the current price, you're earning six figures from waste.
See our full worst-case analysis above."We've been burned by consultants before."
Every farmer has. The difference: ACC's 50% levy means ACC only earns when you earn. And unlike a consultant, ACC owns $400,000 worth of equipment sitting on your land. We have more skin in the game than you do. And you own a share of the company doing it.
Over $131,000/year from money you didn't know existed yesterday."What happens when we sell the farm?"
The site access agreement is between ACC and the farm operator. The new owner can assume the agreement (and the ~$280,000+/year in revenue), or decline. If they decline, ACC removes its equipment at its own expense. If they assume it, they also receive a Class B membership share. Your farm just became worth significantly more.
A revenue-producing asset increases your sale price."The left column is money you didn't know you had. The right column is every reason you've ever had not to trust someone who drove up your lane. Both are real. But only one of them puts a cheque in your hand every year for twenty years."
Market Data
The Carbon Credit Market — Right Now
Current Credit Price
$375/t
CFR CC2 spot price, Q4 2025
Source: ClearBlue Markets / ECCC
Compliance Ceiling
$319/t
2024 CCM trigger price. Increases annually with CI reduction schedule.
Structural Deficit
4.35M
12.3M credits required vs 7.95M generated in first 18 months. Demand exceeds supply.
RNG Price (BC)
$9.23/GJ
FortisBC voluntary RNG rate, January 2026. 4–12× conventional gas price.
Credit Price Trajectory
Source: ECCC Quarterly Credit Market Reports. Data updated quarterly. The compliance ceiling increases every year by law — credit demand is legislated, not voluntary.
Last updated: April 2026
Market Opportunity
~19,000 Target Farms Across Canada[13]
Hover over any province to see the breakdown by livestock type, viable farm count, and ACC expansion timeline.
Company Roadmap
From Kitchen Table to National Platform
Seven phases, from the first farm audit to national platform. Click any phase to explore the details.
Regulatory Status
Where the Rules Stand — April 2026
Anderson Carbon Capture operates under multiple federal and provincial regulatory frameworks. We believe in full transparency about where these programmes stand.
The Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR): Active federal law since July 1, 2023. Administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Requires fuel producers to reduce the lifecycle carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel. Credits are generated through registered pathways, including renewable natural gas from agricultural methane capture. This is ACC's primary crediting mechanism. The pathway is active, open, and accepting registrations.
Federal Offset Protocol — Reducing Manure Methane Emissions: Currently in draft. The protocol was posted for public comment and closed April 29, 2025. When finalised, this will create an additional crediting pathway specifically for manure methane reduction projects under the federal GHG Offset Credit System. ACC will utilise this pathway when it becomes available. It is not yet available.
Provincial Programmes: British Columbia's Low Carbon Fuel Standard allows credit stacking with the federal CFR on the same tonne of avoided emissions — the “double-dip” that makes BC the highest-value jurisdiction. Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan each have provincial cost-share programmes for digester capital costs under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (SCAP), open until March 31, 2028. Alberta operates its own compliance offset market under TIER with established biogas protocols.
Grant Programmes: The federal Agricultural Clean Technology Adoption Stream closed March 31, 2026. The ACT Research and Innovation Stream remains open until March 31, 2028. Provincial cost-share programmes under SCAP remain open. A successor federal framework is in development but has not been announced. ACC's financial model does not depend on its existence.
We update this section when regulations change. Last updated: April 2026.
The Founder
Why This Company Exists
I'm going to be straight with you about what this company is and what it isn't.
Anderson Carbon Capture is a startup. We're new. We're small. We're a group of professionals in Ontario who looked at the federal carbon credit regulations, looked at 60,000 livestock farms venting methane into the atmosphere, looked at the billions of dollars sitting in government grant programmes and compliance markets — and saw an open door that nobody was walking through.
So we're walking through it. And we want to bring you with us.
Here's what we see. The federal government has built a carbon credit market with a structural deficit — more buyers than sellers, by law, through at least 2030. The Clean Fuel Regulations have legislated carbon intensity reductions that tighten every year, with the compliance period running through 2030 and credit banking provisions that extend market demand well beyond that. The compliance ceiling was $319 per credit in 2024 and rises annually. The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership funds provincial cost-share programmes through March 2028. British Columbia's Low Carbon Fuel Standard has no sunset clause. Alberta's TIER market has operated continuously since 2007.
Will the credits last forever? Probably not. Will the specific programmes change? Almost certainly. Governments change. Regulations evolve. That's reality.
But here's what we also know: the credits don't have to last forever to change your life. A 100-cow dairy generating $280,000 a year in carbon credit revenue for even five years has earned $1.4 million — enough to pay off the digester several times over, retire debt, buy land, or set up the next generation. At ten years, that's $2.8 million. And when the credits end — if they end — you still have a machine that turns your animals' by-products into fuel to heat your farm, with the excess sold for the life of the equipment. The digester doesn't stop working because a regulation changed. Physics doesn't expire.
This is a modern gold rush. The money is real. It's sitting there. It's waiting for the industrious and the tenacious. The farmers who move now will collect the most, for the longest, with the least competition. The farmers who wait will watch their neighbours collect it first.
We are dreamers. We are idealists. We are workaholics who see this opportunity for exactly what it is — an open door to government funds that the government itself built for you but never explained. That door may close down the road. Every credible estimate says it won't close for years. But we're not going to lie to you and say it's forever. We're going to say: it's open now, and we know how to walk you through it.
What we're building is as close to turn-key as we can make it. You won't manage the digester. You won't file the paperwork. You won't negotiate with gas buyers or credit brokers or government agencies. We keep 50% to own it, finance it, maintain it, insure it, monitor it, and manage every piece of paperwork between your manure and your money. We want this to be something that doesn't add to your daily worries — you have enough of those. We want it to be the thing that makes the other worries easier to carry.
That's the philosophy. Absolute transparency about what we are — a startup, early stage, building something we believe in. Absolute transparency about the opportunity — real, legislated, time-limited, and extraordinary while it lasts. And absolute transparency about the risk — because you deserve to make this decision with your eyes open, not with a sales pitch ringing in your ears.
We're not the biggest company you'll ever deal with. But we might be the most honest.
How long is the door open?
The Clean Fuel Regulations mandate carbon intensity reductions through 2030, with annual targets that tighten each year (SOR/2022-140, Schedule 1). Credit banking provisions allow credits generated now to be used for future compliance — creating demand that extends beyond 2030. The compliance ceiling (CCM trigger price) was $319 in 2024 and is indexed upward annually. The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (SCAP) funds provincial digester cost-share programmes through March 31, 2028. A successor framework is in development. British Columbia's Low Carbon Fuel Standard has operated since 2013 with no legislated sunset. Alberta's Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) market has operated continuously since 2007. The federal draft Reducing Manure Methane Emissions offset protocol, when finalised, will create an additional crediting pathway beyond the CFR. No federal party has proposed repealing the industrial compliance mechanisms that drive credit demand.
Get notified when we begin onboarding farms in your province.
The Evidence
Is This Real?
Don't take our word for it. Every link below goes to a third-party source — government, industry, financial press, or legal analysis — that you can verify yourself. Show this page to your wife. Show it to your accountant. Show it to your neighbour.
⚖ The Law
GOVClean Fuel Regulations (SOR/2022-140)
The actual federal regulation as published in the Canada Gazette. Not an article about it. The law itself. In force since July 1, 2023.
CFR Compliance — ECCC
The government's own explanation of the three compliance categories, the credit market, and how credits are created and traded.
CFR-CATS Portal
The live government portal where credits are registered, tracked, and transferred. Operational now. Accepting registrations.
$ The Money
INDUSTRYCFR Credit Market Report — ClearBlue Markets
Industry-standard analysis documenting credit prices, trading volumes, and the structural supply shortage driving prices above $350/tonne.
Official CFR Credit Market Data — ECCC
The government's own published data on credit generation, transfer volumes, and weighted average prices.
Canada's Clean Fuel Markets Boom — Environmental Finance
Financial press analysis of CFR credit prices surging past $350/tonne and structural market dynamics supporting continued strength.
CFR Analysis — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Major Canadian law firm analysis of the credit market, voluntary credit creation, and opportunities for registered creators.
🌾 The Farm Angle
GOVAgricultural Clean Technology Programme — AAFC
Federal grant programme for anaerobic digesters and other clean technology. One of several grants we navigate on your behalf to reduce capital costs.
Ontario Soil & Crop Improvement Association
Administers the BMP cost-share programme — up to $100,000 for eligible manure management improvements in Ontario.
CFR FAQs — 3Degrees
A leading registered creator and aggregator explains how credits are generated, sold, and what the financial opportunity looks like.
Creating and Selling CFR Credits — ClearBlue Markets
Step-by-step explanation of how credits are generated and sold, including the role of aggregators for smaller producers.
💪 Even Without Credits — Your Digester Pays For Itself
What if the government changes the programme?
$40,000–$60,000/yr in bedding savings from recycled manure solids[11] — no government required.
$8,000–$12,000/yr in fertilizer savings from digestate[11] — no government required.
$15,000–$25,000/yr in heating savings from biogas[11] — no government required.
90% odour reduction[16] — no government required.
The credits are the headline. The digester economics are the foundation. The government didn't invent methane. Your cows did. The permanent value was always there.
Sources & References
- Statistics Canada & ECCC. Census of Agriculture 2021; National Inventory Report 1990–2022, Part 2 — Agriculture (Table A6-2). Fewer than 140 on-farm digesters; 99.77% of agricultural methane uncaptured. statcan.gc.ca · ECCC NIR
- Government of Canada. Clean Fuel Regulations, SOR/2022-140. Canada Gazette, Part II, Vol. 156, No. 14. laws-lois.justice.gc.ca
- Natural Resources Canada. GHGenius — A Model for Lifecycle Assessment of Transportation Fuels, Version 6. ghgenius.ca
- Environment & Climate Change Canada. Fuel Life Cycle Assessment Model (Fuel LCA Model). canada.ca
- Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada. Agricultural Clean Technology Program. The Adoption Stream closed March 31, 2026; the Research & Innovation Stream remains open until March 2028. Provincial cost-share programmes under SCAP remain available. agriculture.canada.ca
- Environment & Climate Change Canada. Clean Fuel Regulations Credit and Tracking System (CFR-CATS). canada.ca
- IPCC & ECCC. IPCC 2019 Refinement, Vol. 4 Ch. 10; ECCC National Inventory Report Annex 3. A 100-cow dairy on lagoon storage produces approximately 750 tonnes CO₂e/year in avoidable methane. IPCC
- ECCC & ClearBlue Markets. ECCC Clean Fuel Regulations Credit Market Report 2023; ClearBlue Markets Canadian Carbon Credit Forecast. Structural credit deficit and pricing above $400/tonne for compliance-grade credits. clearblue.com
- Environmental Finance & ClearBlue Markets. Forward pricing for CFR credits above $350/tonne in 2024–2025 market analysis. environmental-finance.com
- FortisBC & Enbridge. Renewable Natural Gas programs: RNG purchase prices 4–12× conventional natural gas spot. fortisbc.com
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs; University of Guelph. On-farm anaerobic digestion — economic analysis of byproduct savings: bedding replacement, digestate fertiliser value, and process heat recovery totalling $75,000–$100,000/yr for a 200-cow dairy. ontario.ca
- Farm Credit Canada. Equipment and infrastructure financing for Canadian agricultural operations. fcc-fac.ca
- Statistics Canada. Census of Agriculture 2021, Table 32-10-0425-01. Approximately 19,000 livestock farms in Canada (excl. Quebec) meet minimum herd-size thresholds for viable digester economics. statcan.gc.ca
- Canadian Dairy Commission & Statistics Canada. Number of dairy farms in Canada: 9,256 (2022). dairyinfo.gc.ca
- Government of British Columbia. Low Carbon Fuel Standard — Renewable & Low Carbon Fuel Requirements Regulation. BC LCFS credits can be stacked on top of federal CFR credits for BC-based projects. gov.bc.ca
- U.S. EPA AgSTAR Program; Journal of Environmental Management. Anaerobic digestion reduces odour emissions by approximately 90% compared to open-lagoon manure storage. epa.gov/agstar
Working Farm Questions
Questions from Real Operations
These questions came from dairy and livestock operations across Ontario. If your farm raises questions like these, you're exactly who we built this for.
My herd is on sand bedding. Can the digester handle that?
Sand is the most common digester compatibility issue in Ontario dairy. It settles in the tank, abrades pumps, and reduces effective volume. A standard digester will struggle with sand-laden manure without a pre-separation system upstream — a sand lane or settling basin costing $40,000–$80,000 installed. But here's what most sand-bedding farmers don't realise until we run the numbers: switching to straw or shavings before installation often pays for itself immediately — because the digester produces your bedding at no additional cost. Separated fibre from the digestate replaces purchased bedding material. Ontario operations running organic bedding with a digester typically save $40,000–$60,000 per year in bedding costs alone. That's a saving you collect on top of the carbon credit revenue, not instead of it. The audit will model both paths and show you which one puts more money in your pocket.
Does adding a digester trigger a change to my Nutrient Management Plan?
Yes. In Ontario, installing an anaerobic digester constitutes a material change to your manure storage and handling system. You will need an updated Nutrient Management Strategy or Plan, engineered drawings for the building permit, and OMAFRA approval. The good news: digestate is a superior fertiliser product with more predictable nutrient content than raw manure, so the updated NMP often shows improved nutrient management — which OMAFRA likes. ACC coordinates the NMP update and the municipal building permit application. The engineering is subcontracted to a licensed Ontario engineer. This is included in the project management scope — you don't hire your own engineer.
My farm is 2 km from the nearest gas main. Who pays for the pipeline?
This is one of the most important questions in the feasibility audit. If your farm is within 500 metres of a high-pressure main, pipeline interconnection is typically $50,000–$150,000 and can be included in the project capital stack. At 2 km, the cost rises significantly. At that distance, on-farm utilisation — heating barns, drying grain, displacing propane — or compressed biogas trucking may be more economic than grid injection. The audit assesses this specific question for your farm. If grid injection doesn't pencil out, your carbon credit revenue is unaffected — credits come from methane capture, not from what you do with the gas afterward.
How much gas does the digester burn just to keep itself warm in an Ontario winter?
Parasitic heat load is real and it matters. A mesophilic digester operates at 35–40°C. In a sustained –25°C cold snap, the heating demand can consume 25–35% of the biogas produced. In milder months, parasitic load drops to 10–15%. The annual average for Southwestern Ontario is approximately 20–25%. The revenue estimates in our calculator account for this — what you see is what you'd actually sell or use, not the gross theoretical output. Biolectric's systems are designed for Northern European climates — Belgium, Netherlands, Scandinavia — which have comparable winter conditions to Ontario.
Can I bring in off-farm waste to boost gas production?
Co-digestion — adding food waste, fats, oils, grease, or other organic feedstocks alongside manure — can significantly increase biogas yield, sometimes doubling or tripling the output. However, receiving off-farm organic waste in Ontario requires registration or approval under the Nutrient Management Act and potentially O. Reg. 347. The carbon intensity score also changes. The feasibility audit will assess whether co-digestion makes sense for your operation. The 50% operating levy doesn't change regardless of feedstock mix.
If something breaks on a Sunday morning, who's coming to fix it?
This is ACC's equipment, so this is ACC's problem. Biolectric systems are remotely monitored — temperature, pressure, gas flow, pH — and most issues are detected before they become emergencies. As ACC's Ontario farm network grows past 15–20 active digesters, a full-time field technician based in Southwestern Ontario is the plan. Until then, the realistic answer is: remote diagnosis within hours, a technician on site within 24–48 hours for non-emergency issues, and an emergency call-out arrangement for critical failures. Your digester has redundant systems — if one pump fails, the system operates at reduced capacity until the repair.
What provinces do you serve?
All except Quebec. Ontario and BC are primary markets. BC farms earn roughly double because the provincial LCFS stacks with the federal programme.[15] Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Atlantic provinces are served on an expanding schedule.
If I sell the credits to Shell, can I still claim Net Zero for the DFC?
No. When you sell carbon credits to an obligated party, you are transferring the environmental attribute to them. You cannot then claim that same reduction toward your own farm's sustainability metrics. What you can do: capture the methane, sell some credits, retire some credits. ACC can model this for your specific operation. The honest answer is that most farmers will sell the credits because $250,000 per year is worth more to their operation than a sustainability badge. But if Net Zero certification matters to your brand or your processor relationship, we can structure a programme that balances revenue with retained environmental claims.