Experts say it is a potential energy ‘gold mine’ and one Ontario entrepreneur thinks he has the equipment to develop it. Others say it is capital-intensive and the technology still has some way to go
by MARY BAXTER
Roger Gordon has opened the driver’s door on the cab of his Ford F-350 and is pointing to a small, rectangular box on the dashboard. The truck’s gas-fueled engine chugs and gurgles.
Gordon, a tall, thin man in his late 50s who sports a grease-stained outdoors jacket as if it were a Bay Street suit, leans in and presses one of the box’s buttons. “Notice it just changed a little bit?” He grins. He claims he has just switched the engine’s fuel source. “That’s as simple as it is.”