Cielo pushes back annual meeting

Canadian firm with scrap wood-to-fuel plans has moved its annual stakeholders meeting from late October to mid-December.

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In 2021, Cielo sought investors to fund a wood-to-fuel facility and earlier this year announced an agreement to buy an existing wood-to-fuels plant.
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Cielo Waste Solutions Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, has rescheduled its annual general meeting (AGM) of shareholders. The meeting originally was scheduled for Oct. 29 and is now set for the week of Dec. 16 ,with the final date to be set soon.

The company, which focuses on scrap wood and byproducts-to-fuel technology, says its board of directors determined that it would be in the best interest of the company to reschedule the AGM, primarily as a result of technical difficulties.

Cielo had intended to conduct its AGM in October using Microsoft Teams. The AGM to be held in December will instead be held as an in-person meeting, which is anticipated to allow for greater efficiency and transparency and improved communication, according to the company.

In 2021, Cielo sought investors to fund a wood-to-fuel facility to be built in or near Edmonton, Alberta. In 2023, however, it sold land in Alberta as a means of reducing its debt load.

The company’s most recent plans involve acquiring an existing enhanced gas-to-liquids (EGTL) synthetic fuel facility in Carseland, Alberta, currently owned and operated by Rocky Mountain Clean Fuels Inc. (RMCFI).

Cielo plans to enhance the EGTL facility and engage in diversifying the inputs used to process synthetic diesel and jet fuel. It would accomplish that in part by building a gasifier on the land adjacent to the EGTL facility.

Regarding that transaction, Cielo announced it in June and set an intended closing date of Sept. 6. On Sept. 10, however, Cielo announced that it and RMCFI had executed an amendment to the letter of intent to provide for an additional few weeks to complete the due diligence process, to be followed by the execution of the definitive agreements and the closing of the proposed transaction.