NEWS
PCE IN THE MEDIA
The Western Producer
August 1, 2025
Prairie Clean Enterprises is gearing up to launch the world’s first flax straw processing facility in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
CSO, Brita Lind, shares how this facility will turn flax straw into high-value, sustainable products, including Prairie Clean Litter. Once operational, the facility will process up to 50,000 tonnes of flax straw annually, supporting prairie farmers, creating new jobs, and driving clean innovation in agriculture.
CBC News
July 3, 2025
Prairie Clean Enterprises featured on What On Earth– CBC’s weekly national newsletter dedicated to climate solutions and environmental innovation from across Canada.
“The Regina Humane Society is partnering with Prairie Clean Enterprises (PCE) to introduce a locally made, environmentally friendly kitty litter made from flax straw.”
PCE is committed to stopping the practice of burning flax straw in fields by repurposing this agricultural waste into useful products, one of which being an eco-friendly cat litter.
CEO Mark Cooper discusses the environmental benefits of Prairie Clean Litter and why people should make the switch. “It is completely biodegradable, completely natural, and it eliminates that cat pee smell.”
CTV News
June 26, 2025
The Regina Humane Society has teamed up with Prairie Clean Enterprises to introduce Prairie Clean Litter, a 100% flax‑straw based, environmentally friendly cat litter.
The shelter will receive the litter free of charge and new adopters will get a complimentary bag or voucher. One dollar from every bag sold will support local feline welfare.
The litter is developed from agricultural by‑product flax straw that is traditionally burned; the litter offers superior absorbency, reduced dust, minimal tracking, and natural odour neutralization.
June 25, 2025
The Regina Humane Society (RHS) is proud to announce a new partnership with Prairie Clean Enterprises (PCE), a Saskatchewan-based company, to introduce a locally-produced, flax-straw-based Cat litter at the Society’s Animal Community Centre
The RHS worked with PCE in 2024 on a trial study of the environmentally friendly litter, made from flax straw – a
renewable by-product of Saskatchewan’s agriculture industry – where it proved to be a clean and effective solution for feline care in shelter. The trial study demonstrated the effectiveness of the all-natural, no-additives, cat
litter in odour, dust, and tracking control.
“This partnership is an exciting step
forward in both animal welfare and environmental responsibility,” said Bill
Thorn, Director of Marketing and Public Relations at the Regina Humane Society.
“Not only does this product perform well in our shelter, but it also reflects
our commitment to supporting local innovation and sustainability.”
As part of the partnership, PCE will supply the flax-straw-based litter – called Prairie Clean Litter – to the Regina Humane Society at no cost. This generous commitment will allow the Society to redirect more resources toward the direct care of animals, as well as its broader humane education, adoption, and community outreach programs.
Additionally, every adopter who welcomes a cat or kitten into their home from the RHS will be provided a complimentary bag of litter or a voucher to obtain one through the Prairie Clean Litter website. Moreover, one dollar from every bag of Prairie Clean Litter sold will go to
local feline health and welfare.
“We are grateful for this partnership with
RHS. They are so critical to animal welfare and adoption in Regina,” said Mark Cooper, PCE’s CEO and President. “It’s a win-win-win partnership. It’s a win
for the prairie farmers PCE can buy more flax straw from, it’s a win for the
environment as less flax straw will be burned in the fields, and it’s a win for
consumers and their cats who can buy a true Canadian product that is a healthy
and effective, eco-friendly solution.”
The new program is set to roll out in October of this year, marking the beginning of what both organizations see as a model of local collaboration and sustainability in action.
Up to 1 million tonnes of flax straw is
burned on the North American prairies every year. PCE is the leading aggregator and processor of agricultural residue in Canada for flax straw and flax fibre for a variety of high-quality, value-added products. PCE’s first facility in
Weyburn, Saskatchewan, will be in production September 2025, producing cat litter, animal bedding, and flax fibre. It will be the only flax straw
multi-processing facility in the world.
To learn more about Prairie Clean Litter
and to sign up for when the product is available to the public, consumers can
visit prairiecleanlitter.ca
May 26th, 2025
Agricultural biomass, such as flax straw, plays a limited role in local and global bioenergy markets due to its generally lower quality compared to woody biomass. Among the ISO 17225 quality parameters for solid biofuels, mechanical durability is particularly critical, as it reduces dust generation during handling, transport, storage, and combustion. Achieving a durability of ≥97.5% with agricultural biomass is challenging, largely due to its lower bulk density, reduced lignin content, and higher ash levels.
After five years of rigorous research and development in collaboration with university and industry partners- and with financial support from federal and provincial programs including Innovation Saskatchewan and the Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA)- Prairie Clean Enterprises (PCE) has successfully developed flax pellets from underutilized flax straw that meet ISO quality standards for solid biofuels.
CKRM
May 12th, 2025
” Saskatchewan-based agricultural clean-tech company Prairie Clean Enterprises (PCE) is setting up shop in Weyburn with the ‘world’s first’ flax straw processing facility.”
CEO, Mark Cooper says “construction on the leased facility, located at 54 Queen Street, is expected to start this month with equipment arriving in August and production starting by September.”
The facility is expected to bring over 30 full-time jobs to Weyburn and more than $3 million in annual wages into the local economy
CTV News Regina
May 5th, 2025
” A Saskatchewan agritech company is planning to open what it calls a world-first facility capable of processing flax straw into industrial-grade fibre and premium pellets in Weyburn.”
PCE is in its final stages of raising capital to get this facility up and running. The facility will produce a range of products from unutilized flax straw such as: Flax Fibre for pulp and specialty paper, flax shive pellets for a 100% and highly absorbent and ammonia-neutralizing cat litter, and pellets for animal bedding.
SaskToday
April 21, 2025
“A ground breaking flax straw processing facility is coming to Weyburn, bringing over 30 full-time jobs and injecting more that $3 million annually in wages into the local economy.”
CEO, Mark Cooper discusses how the new facility in Weyburn, SK, is set to support local job creation and drive economic growth in the region.
He says, “It’s good economics for us. We anticipate that’s where the best straw is going to come from. There’s also skilled workforce, good training opportunities right here in the community.”
Disover Weyburn
April 21, 2025
On April 17, CEO, Mark Cooper took to the floor at Weyburn City Hall to share PCE’s exciting plans with the Mayor and City Council.
Mark spoke about why Weyburn is the ideal home for the new facility.
“Weyburn’s fantastic because it’s close to the available flax straw, it has industrial space available for us, great workforce, and the community is just very welcoming,” Cooper told Discover Weyburn following the presentation. “Right from day one, the mayor, council, and city staff have been so inviting for us to build our business here.”
Discover Weyburn
April 16th, 2025
“A new clean-tech initiative will be formally introduced to Weyburn City Council Thursday morning, as Prairie Clean Enterprises outlines its plan to bring a first-of-its-kind processing facility to the city.”
PCE is preparing to launch their first flax processing facility, located in Weyburn, SK. When open this September, the facility will be the only plant in the world processing flax straw into fibre and flax shive pellets for a variety of markets.
Prairie Clean Energy Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
June 11, 2024
Prairie Clean Energy (PCE) announced today the exciting launch of our crowdfunding campaign with FrontFundr, Canada’s leading online private markets investing platform. PCE is looking to raise the final $1.5M raise to buy 3 tonne/hour equipment for our existing facility in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Visit PCE’s FrontFundr’s page to view PCE’s brand story.
“With $1.2M already secured, we are opening up our fundraising to the general public to have an opportunity to share in PCE’s impactful bioenergy future…and to help resource the bioeconomy through the use of unutilized agricultural waste,” says Mark Cooper, PCE’s President & CEO.
AgCanadaTV
July 26, 2024
“Prairie Clean Energy is more than willing to take that flax straw off your hands for a range of uses”
Chief Strategy Officer Brita Lind attended the 2024 Ag in Motion event and shared insights on AgCanadaTV about Prairie Clean Energy’s impactful initiatives. Brita highlighted how PCE enables farmers to earn dual incomes from a single crop and PCE is expanding into worldwide markets with flax pellets.
FrontFundr
July 18, 2024
Prairie Clean Energy’s crowdfunding campaign on FrontFundr has achieved 80% of its target, bringing them one step closer to their goal. CEO, Mark Cooper recently sat down with FrontFundr expert Trieste to discuss the latest developments at PCE.
“Praire Clean Energy (PCE) is changing the bioeconomy landscape in North America and the world by doing what no one else is doing – harnessing the millions of tonnes of excess agricultural waste on the Canadian and American Prairies.”
SaskBroker Magazine
Spring 2024
There is simply no place quite like Saskatchewan when it comes to Prairie Clean Energy. Mark Cooper, CEO of PCE says, “as PCE grows into the multi-national large scale company that we can become, we will always remain headquartered here in Saskatchewan. That’s not a product of chance but of choice.”
SaskBroker’s Magazine, “All in on Saskatchewan,” features an article written by Mark Cooper. In this piece, Mark reflects on his upbringing in Saskatchewan and the profound impact it has had on shaping his personal journey and the vision of Prairie Clean Energy. He provides a summary of what PCE does and emphasizes why the province is the perfect home for the company.
CKRM The Voice of Saskatchewan
June 17, 2024
Saskatchewan-based company, Prairie Clean Energy was featured on the CKRM The Voice of Saskatchewan radio station.
PCE is embarking on a crowdfunding campaign with a goal to raise $1.5 million, and so far has raised over $930-thousand through Front Fundr, an online private market investing platform.
CEO, Mark Cooper explains that through Front Fundr, the average person can join our exciting journey by making a minimum investment of just five hundred dollars.
Western Producer
June 14, 2024
Saskatchewan-based company, Prairie Clean Energy is featured in the Western Producer, the largest agricultural magazine in Western Canada. CEO Mark Cooper and Founder Trevor Thomas share the story of the founding of Prairie Clean Energy and elaborate on PCE’s strategy for achieving success.
“PCE has big plans to convert flax straw into pellets. The pellets will be processed at a plant in Regina and sold to industrial, commercial and residential customers for heat and power generation.”
Biomass Magazine
March 4, 2024
Prairie Clean Energy has transitioned from proof of concept to minimum viable product to being named by the Vienna Institute as one of the top 10 clean energy companies to watch in the world in 2023—all in rapid succession. With financial support from Innovation Saskatchewan under a Saskatchewan Advantage Innovation Fund project and a $1.1 million grant from the Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator, the company and its academic partners successfully developed a proprietary flax straw pellet production process, which is patent pending, and they are now working on a second patent application.
Last year, Prairie Clean Energy evolved to purchasing flax straw from farmers and producing flax pellets in 2023 at a tolled facility to test logistics, process and product readiness.
600 CJWW
January 20, 2024
In the future, flax pellets might be used as the main form of heating in the potash industry thanks to a collaboration between Saskatchewan Polytechnic and Regina-based company, Prairie Clean Energy.
Dr. Robin Smith with Sask. Polytechnic says the goal of the collaboration is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by replacing the use of natural gas with bioheat, generated by burning locally acquired flax pellets.
Penticton Herald
January 19, 2024
Earlier this year Saskatchewan-based business, Prairie Clean Energy, received a $1.1 million grant from the Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) Network for their innovative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction project. The project aims to revolutionize the potash industry by utilizing locally produced agricultural waste in the form of flax straw to generate low carbon bioheat, potentially reducing GHG emissions by up to 80 percent.
DiscoverMooseJaw.com
January 12, 2024
Prairie Clean Energy has teamed up with Saskatchewan Polytechnic in a project to turn the province’s agricultural waste into low carbon bioheat.
The Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) Network gave Prairie Clean Energy a grant for $1.1 million for a research project seeking to create heat from flax straw that would otherwise be a waste product.
Prairie Clean Energy is working together on the project with Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s applied research centre, known as Sustainability-Led Integrated Centres of Excellence (SLICE).
MooseJawToday.com
January 10, 2024
In collaboration with Saskatchewan-based business Prairie Clean Energy, Saskatchewan Polytech will develop a “living lab” pilot operation at an agricultural site near Moose Jaw to serve as a testing ground for the viability of using prairie biomass to generate industrial heat.
The project will draw on a $1.1 million grant that Prairie Clean Energy received from the Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) Network for its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction project.
620 CKRM
October 17, 2023
A Saskatchewan-based company that focuses on providing sustainable and clean prairie-based biomass fuel, wants to buy flax straw from farmers.
CEO of Prairie Clean Energy Mark Cooper says they’re buying between 6-thousand to 54-thousand tons of straw at a time, within a 100-kilometre radius around Regina and a 75-kilometre radius around Gilbert Plains, Manitoba.
It’s part of their plan to scale up production of flax pellets.
SaskToday.ca
August 10, 2023
Saskatchewan-based business, Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), has announced they will start buying flax straw from Canadian farmers on the prairies this fall as the company starts its first foray into scaling up production of its flax pellets.
PCE will be purchasing flax straw within a 75-kilometre radius around both Regina and Gilbert Plains, Man., where the company has leased time at a facility for the initial production of the company’s proprietary flax pellets.
Canadian Biomass
August 8, 2023
Saskatchewan-based business, Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), is excited to announce they will start buying flax straw from Canadian farmers on the prairies this fall as the company starts its first foray into scaling up production of its flax pellets.
PCE will be purchasing flax straw within a 75-kilometre radius around both Regina and Gilbert Plains, MB, where the company has leased time at a facility for the initial production of the company’s proprietary flax pellets. PCE will be buying anywhere from 6,000 to 54,000 tonnes of flax straw, the range being wide as the company works on production projections and growth plans into 2024.
“We’re thrilled to say we’re now producing pellets and moving from being a Saskatchewan start-up success story into a revenue-producing Saskatchewan success story,” said Mark Cooper, PCE’s CEO and president, adding, “We knew the time was right to start buying straw now as all our hard work, relationship building, and research over the past few years has led to this market opportunity.”
Farms.com
August 9, 2023
Prairie Clean Energy (PCE) has a vision that turning underused flax straw from the Canadian prairies into sustainable pellets for diverse uses. This company from Saskatchewan said they will start buying this straw soon to begin making their special pellets.
The company is looking for flax straw in two main areas; Regina and Gilbert Plains, MB, within a 75-km radius of each location. Based on the firm’s growth and production outlook for 2024, PCE anticipates buying between 6,000 and 54,000 tonnes of this valuable straw.
Biomass Magazine
June 27, 2023
Saskatchewan-based business, Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), is thrilled to announce they have been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator (MICA) Network for their GHG emissions reduction project utilizing prairie biomass. Of the 24 projects receiving MICA funding, PCE was the only Saskatchewan recipient. This MICA grant provides yet another opportunity for the fast-growing bioenergy company.
By using PCE’s proprietary, patented flax straw pellets to help heat potash mines, the carbon intensity of heat consumption in these mines can be reduced drastically. PCE’s chief product and supply chain development officer, Mahmood Ebadian, suggests, “This technology has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80 percent when used to displace fossil fuels for industrial process heating.” Meanwhile PCE president and CEO, Mark Cooper, states, “The $1.1 million grant will help PCE continue to drive an energy revolution around the world through the use of our local prairie biomass.”
980 CJME
February 2, 2023
Saskatchewan’s trade and export development minister is to lead a delegation to Japan and South Korea this week to explore new trade opportunities.
Jeremy Harrison will be leading the delegation, the provincial government announced Thursday. The mission will focus on promoting natural resources like uranium and helium, and will also “highlight the importance of partnerships in food security and energy transition.”
Mark Cooper, CEO of Prairie Clean Energy, will also be joining the delegation. He said the mission is an opportunity to further Saskatchewan’s role as a leader in sustainable bioenergy.
“Saskatchewan is one of the most sustainable farmers on Earth and we need to capitalize on the opportunity,” Cooper said in a statement.
Regina Leader-Post
May 3, 2022
Prairie Clean Energy CEO and President Mark Cooper says Saskatchewan could fill a void because the war in Ukraine has halted biomass exports from Russia. With the war in Ukraine, he said, companies across Europe are eagerly looking for the product because they can no longer source it from Russia.
“The number of requests for meetings has been overwhelming,” said Cooper, the CEO and president of Prairie Clean Energy, during a phone interview from London, U.K. last week. “All of that is very encouraging for us. Their demand is exceedingly high. And their interest in working with stable, reliable government is really high, too.”
Cooper spent the last week of April promoting Saskatchewan biomass in London.
West Central Online
January 25, 2022
Saskatchewan-based bioenergy company, Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), welcomed representatives from Japan’s largest renewable energy developer – RENOVA Inc. – to Regina last week for important talks.
The meetings with RENOVA Inc. highlight the global interest in PCE’s momentum in the bioenergy space, and demonstrate the high-level of demand for a fully renewable and sustainable biomass fuel source like flax straw.
Innovation Saskatchewan
December 7, 2021
Prairie Clean Energy is excited to announce we have been awarded a grant through the Saskatchewan Advantage Innovation Fund (SAIF) and Agtech Growth Fund (AGF).
Through the SAIF and AGF programs, the Government of Saskatchewan is investing in six innovative Saskatchewan companies from the province’s core economic sectors.
discoverweyburn.com
July 26, 2020
There may be a solution for what to do with flax straw other than burning it that could make prairie farmers money.
Prairie Clean Energy, a Saskatchewan based company, is processing and selling flax straw for biomass fuel to Canadian and global customers.
Canada Biomass Magazine
Winter 2021
An inside look at the efforts of a Saskatchewan-based start-up to produce biofuel from flax straw.
Western Farmer
August 20, 2020
There are more than 4,000 biomass power plants in the world and they can’t find the fuel they need to meet demand, says PrairieClean Energy. The company believes it has a prairie-made solution
Weyburn Review
July 30, 2020
A Saskatchewan company, Prairie Clean Energy of Regina, has found a way to take the thousands of tonnes of Saskatchewan flax straw that gets burned or trashed on the prairies every year and turn it into something that can provide income to farmers and sustainable growth for rural Saskatchewan.
discoverweyburn.com
July 28, 2020
The need for biomass fuel has been steadily climbing over the past few years. In the past coal was used for factories before moving over to biomass fuel which used wood in order to better protect the environment.
Farms.com
July 28, 2020
There may be a solution for what to do with flax straw other than burning it that could make prairie farmers money.