Bloomberg Law
May 17, 2019, 10:01 AM UTCUpdated: May 21, 2019, 12:41 PM UTC

Canadian Researcher of Oil-Eating Fungi Seeks Industry Buy-In (Corrected)

A childhood fascination with microscopic life has spawned a unique career for Susan Kaminskyj: deploying oil-eating microbes to eat up toxic dirt.

Kaminskyj, a biology professor at the University of Saskatchewan, is the co-founder of GreenSTEM Technology Corp., a company that specializes in bioremediation. But the application she’s best-known for—a fungus that helps plants grow on the heaps of contaminated soil produced by oil sands mining—hasn’t won acceptance from the petroleum industry.

As a result, Kaminskyj’s efforts aren’t concentrated in the oil sands of northern Alberta—arguably Canada’s most infamous industrial landscape—but to the west in northeastern British ...

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