Under Canada's Clean Fuel Regulations, fuel producers are legally required to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels. Buying carbon credits is the fastest and most cost-effective way to comply — and agricultural methane capture is one of the highest-value pathways available. Your livestock manure produces the methane those credits come from. We connect the two — and you keep 95%.
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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
Canada's federal Clean Fuel Regulations[2] require fuel producers to reduce the carbon intensity of their fuels. Agricultural methane capture from livestock manure is an eligible credit pathway under the CFR — the government built this pathway specifically for operations like yours. Answer four questions and see what that's worth.
Estimated Annual Carbon Credit Revenue Range
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Your Share (95%)
Our Fee (5%)
CO₂e Captured / Year
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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.
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.
The Process
We handle everything between your manure and your money. You farm. We do the rest.
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 navigate every available grant — the Agricultural Clean Technology programme,[5] provincial programs, and regional incentives. The funding model is performance-based: any remaining balance is financed and payments are made directly from your revenue cheques. You never write a cheque out of pocket — the digester pays for itself from the income it generates.
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 aggregate your credits with other farms into premium-priced blocks, negotiate sales with obligated parties like Shell and Suncor, and deposit 95% of the revenue to your bank account. Every payment comes with a transparent statement showing exactly what your cows produced and what it sold for.
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.
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.
The Decision
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
Your 95% of 750 tonnes[7] × $350.[8] 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 95% share becomes $356,250/year.
Legislated upward — your asset appreciates$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 yearsA paid-for asset that produces for 20+ years
We navigate every available grant[5] and finance the balance on a performance basis — payments are made directly from your revenue cheques.[12] You never pay out of pocket. The digester pays for itself from the income it generates.
You own everything
You own the digester. You own the credits. ACC is your consulting partner — we handle the paperwork, compliance, and credit sales so you can focus on farming.
ACC handles everything
Every step from audit to annual compliance — 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 below."We've been burned by consultants before."
Every farmer has. The difference: ACC's 5% fee means ACC only makes money when you make money. If your digester stops producing, ACC's revenue drops too.
You keep 95% of money you didn't know existed yesterday."What happens when we sell the farm?"
The digester and ACC membership transfer with the operation. The buyer inherits an asset producing $280,000+/year. 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
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
Revenue Breakdown
You Keep 95%
$282,435/year
From an asset you own. On top of your existing farm income.
ACC Fee 5%
$14,865/year
Covers all compliance, credit sales, monitoring, and management.
From manure you were going to throw away. Your out-of-pocket cost over 20 years: $0.
Revenue sources vary by province, project structure, and pathway eligibility. Not all value streams apply to every farm.
Your Investment
A typical 100-cow dairy digester installation. Every dollar accounted for.
Federal and provincial programmes. ACC files every application on your behalf.
Loan arranged by ACC. Payments come from your carbon credit revenue — not from your bank account. You never write a cheque.
Nothing. No deposit. No down payment. No personal guarantee beyond the digester asset itself.
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
Loan payments are deducted from your credit revenue before it reaches you. The digester pays for itself from income it generates.
You provide manure. The revenue handles everything else. At no point do you write a cheque, sign a personal guarantee on your home, or dip into your operating line.
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 — including which grants you qualify for and what the financing looks like. The per-head service fee (~$2,500 typical) is fully refundable if the project doesn't proceed.
Project Modeller
The simple calculator above gives you a quick estimate. This tool lets you stress-test the economics yourself. Adjust every variable. See what happens when credit prices drop, herds shrink, or costs rise. The math is transparent — every number updates in real time.
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.
Market Opportunity
Hover over any province to see the breakdown by livestock type, viable farm count, and ACC expansion timeline.
Company Roadmap
Seven phases, from the first farm audit to national platform. Click any phase to explore the details.
The Evidence
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 actual federal regulation as published in the Canada Gazette. Not an article about it. The law itself. In force since July 1, 2023.
The government's own explanation of the three compliance categories, the credit market, and how credits are created and traded.
The live government portal where credits are registered, tracked, and transferred. Operational now. Accepting registrations.
Industry-standard analysis documenting credit prices, trading volumes, and the structural supply shortage driving prices above $350/tonne.
The government's own published data on credit generation, transfer volumes, and weighted average prices.
Financial press analysis of CFR credit prices surging past $350/tonne and structural market dynamics supporting continued strength.
Major Canadian law firm analysis of the credit market, voluntary credit creation, and opportunities for registered creators.
Federal grant programme for anaerobic digesters and other clean technology. One of several grants we navigate on your behalf to reduce capital costs.
Administers the BMP cost-share programme — up to $100,000 for eligible manure management improvements in Ontario.
A leading registered creator and aggregator explains how credits are generated, sold, and what the financial opportunity looks like.
Step-by-step explanation of how credits are generated and sold, including the role of aggregators for smaller producers.
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.
Common Questions
These questions came from a dairy operation in Oxford County. If your farm raises questions like these, you're exactly who we built this for.
Regulatory Status
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.
Risk
So some guy flies in from British Columbia, sits at your kitchen table, and tells you your manure is worth $280,000 a year. He says the government pays for half the equipment, the bank pays for the rest, and you never write a cheque. He says oil companies are legally required to buy what comes out of your lagoon. He says you keep 95%.
You've been farming long enough to know what this sounds like.
It sounds like the ethanol guy. It sounds like the solar lease guy. It sounds like every smooth talker who ever drove up your lane with a pamphlet and a promise. You smiled, you nodded, and you waited for him to leave.
Fair enough.
But here's what you also know, because you've been doing this your whole life: every single day you bet your family's future on milk prices you don't set, feed costs you can't control, weather you can't predict, and a tractor that owes you nothing when it breaks. You carry $2 million in assets against risks that would make a banker's eyes water — and you've been profitable anyway. You don't need anyone to explain risk to you. You eat risk for breakfast.
So instead of telling you why this isn't too good to be true, we're going to do something different. We're going to show you every single thing that could go wrong — the realistic stuff and the catastrophic stuff — and let you decide for yourself whether this is riskier than what you already do every morning before coffee.
Spoiler: it isn't. But you don't have to believe us. Believe the math.
This is the big one. A new government decides carbon credits are done. The CFR is repealed. Every credit in the system goes to zero.
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. 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.
That's less than half the current spot price. Your credit revenue on a 100-cow dairy drops from $262,500 to $112,500. Add gas and fertiliser and your gross revenue is approximately $147,300. After ACC's 5% fee and your loan payment, you net roughly $107,000 per year.
That's a real haircut from $280,000. It's also $107,000 per year in new income that didn't exist before you installed the digester. From manure. That you were throwing away.
Every carbon credit programme in Canada is repealed simultaneously. Federal and provincial. All of them. This requires dismantling multiple statutes across multiple jurisdictions.
Your gas still sells. Your fertiliser savings remain. $34,800 per year. Your digester is paid off. Your operating cost is near zero.
Biolectric has installed over 300 systems across twelve countries. These are factory-built, standardised, containerised units — not prototypes. The failure rate on established industrial equipment of this type is extremely low.
But say it happens. Say the digester suffers a catastrophic failure in Year 3 and cannot be repaired. You've collected approximately $840,000 in gross revenue over three years. Your loan balance at that point is roughly $200,000. You're ahead by $640,000 on an asset you didn't pay for with your own money.
If the failure is covered by equipment warranty or insurance, the unit is replaced. If it's not, you have a concrete pad and a paid-down loan and three years of income you wouldn't have had otherwise.
Your bank looks at the carbon feasibility report, the DSCR analysis, and the revenue projections, and says no. The banker doesn't understand carbon credits and won't underwrite revenue from a market he's never seen.
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. You can take that report to Farm Credit Canada, to another bank, or you can wait until your neighbour's digester is producing cheques and walk back into your bank with proof it works.
ACC is your compliance manager, not your equipment provider. You own the digester. You own the credits. You own the gas. If ACC disappears, you need to find another consultant to file your annual ECCC compliance reports and manage your credit sales — or learn to do it yourself.
The digester doesn't stop producing methane because ACC closed its doors. The credits don't stop having value. The gas doesn't stop being gas. You lose a service provider. You don't lose an asset.
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.
The emission factors used in every ACC audit are published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and peer-reviewed across 195 member countries. The GHGenius model is maintained by Natural Resources Canada. The Fuel LCA Model is published by Environment and Climate Change Canada.
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. The probability of this is not zero — but it is the same probability as the fundamental scientific consensus on methane being incorrect.
Nothing changes for you. Your cows keep producing manure. Your lagoon keeps venting methane. The oil companies keep buying credits from someone else.
Your neighbour starts earning $280,000 per year from the same thing your cows produce. His farm becomes the most valuable property on the road. His kids inherit a performing asset. His banker starts calling him instead of the other way around.
You keep farming exactly as you do today, with exactly the income you have today. Nobody is harmed.
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 because it didn't rain for three weeks. Your best cow can go down on a Sunday night and the vet bill wipes out a month of milk cheques. Your tractor throws a rod during first cut hay and you're looking at $40,000 you didn't budget for. Your hired man quits in the middle of calving season because his girlfriend's cousin got him a job in town.
You manage all of that. You've always managed all of that. And you're still here.
Now compare that to the digester. The 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 standardised, insured, and monitored remotely. The loan is paid from the income the equipment generates, not from your operating line. The debt coverage is 9 to 1 — meaning the revenue would have to drop 89% before you missed a single payment. Your milk cheque has never had a 9 to 1 coverage ratio on anything.
The bottom line on risk:
You've survived milk crashes, drought years, mad cow, quota fights, and that one winter the hydro bill almost broke you. The digester is not harder than any of that.
The worst realistic outcome is that credit prices drop significantly and you earn $107,000 per year instead of $280,000. 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 financing falls through and you're out $2,500.
In no scenario do you lose your farm. In no scenario do you owe money you can't pay. In no scenario does the digester stop producing methane. Physics doesn't have an election cycle.
We don't ask you to trust us. We ask you to trust the math. And we show you the math at its worst so you can decide for yourself.
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 a digester that turns your shit into home and barn heating, paid for by the oil companies. Well. That's one for our side.
The Founder
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. You'll pay us 5% to manage it, maintain it, report its data, collect and sell your methane, and deposit the cheques in your account. 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.
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.
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