Key Highlights

• In a corporate update dated 12 March 2026, Northstar outlined its 2026 priorities and reported progress at its Empower Calgary facility, its first commercial plant.
• Operations had ramped to about 80 tonnes per day, and the company identified three bottlenecks — two involving material transfer and one water processing — and implemented solutions intended to enable operations of about 100 to 150 tonnes per day.
• The ramp at Empower Calgary to about 80 tonnes per day, with steps toward 100 to 150 tonnes per day, is the central operational indicator, showing the plant is moving toward its designed throughput while working through the bottlenecks typical of a…