Partnering with world class investors in climate change offset projects.
RuMeth International serves as the product developer of the Uganda Cattle Feed Project. The company is joined in this work by two fine organizations; TransAlta Corporation of Alberta Canada, project investor, and NutriMix Feeds Ltd. of Kampala, Uganda, project implementer. RuMeth International is proud of its association and long established relationship with these two progressive companies. The company looks forward to many more years of future collaboration with TransAlta and NutriMix.
TransAlta is a power generation and wholesale marketing company focused on creating long-term shareholder value. TransAlta maintains a low-risk profile for investors by operating a highly contracted portfolio of assets in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Australia. For more than 90 years TransAlta has been a responsible operator and a proud contributor to the communities where we work and live.
TransAlta has been for two consecutive years as one of the world’s 100 most sustainable companies, in the Global 100 business ranking by the World Economic Forum. TransAlta is among five Canadian representatives on the list. The top 100 companies were selected from a pool of more than 2,000 firms representing large global indexes. These include the S&P 500, MSCI World, FTSE 350 and Eurostoxx. TransAlta is also a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index representing the top 10% of sustainable enterprises worldwide, and has been a member for the last seven years.
TransAlta has significant experience in the investment in and management of international GHG offset projects. TransAlta’s portfolio of offset investments covers a variety of projects, including agricultural emission reductions, energy efficiency, ruminant methane, and landfill and coal mine gas to electricity. TransAlta views the development of this innovative tool as essential to enabling companies to meet their climate change commitments is a cost effective manner. In 2004, TransAlta became the first Canadian company to buy Certified Emission Reductions under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol.
TransAlta has been involved in ruminant methane projects since 1993. TransAlta and AES, a United States based utility company, were investors in the world’s first ruminant methane mitigation project funded for the purpose of carbon offset crediting. The project, based in India, successfully showed that ruminant methane projects can produce significant environmental benefits while benefiting local farmers and communities. TransAlta’s involvement has continued with ruminant methane projects and the company is now the main investor in the Uganda Cattle Feed Project.
Company Contact:
Mr. Don Wharton
TransAlta Corporation
110 – 12th Ave. S.W.
Calgary, Alberta T2P2M1
Tel: (403) 267-7681
E-mail: don_wharton@transalta.com
NutriMix Feeds Ltd. is a limited liability company that was registered with the Ugandan Registrar of Companies on August 17th 2003. NutriMix Feeds Ltd. began commercial operation in January 2004. The primary product of the company is a specialized livestock feed supplement that decreases ruminant methane while increasing producer’s milk and meat production. NutriMix is located on Plot 488 Block 246 in Bukasa, Makindye Division, in Uganda’s capital city, Kampala. The mill is situated on a 2-acre prime piece of property overlooking Murchison Bay on Lake Victoria. The sales office and depot is on Plot 3338 Kisugu, Lakeside Zone.
Until July 2005 the company manufactured and sold a range of livestock feeds for cattle, goats, sheep, swine and poultry, including 13 product lines under the brand name “NutriMix”. In July 2005, Richard Bowman of RuMeth International conducted an assessment of the business and technical feasibility of focusing the company’s manufacturing operations exclusively on methane reducing feed supplements. As a result of this assessment, and with the technical assistance of RuMeth International, the company made a policy decision to shift its manufacturing and marketing operations exclusively to cattle feed supplements. It is the only company manufacturing and promoting these types of feed supplements in Uganda.
NutriMix seeks to create a vibrant and profitable enterprise that produces and successfully markets a highly effective and low-cost feed supplement that increases dairy and beef productivity and profits to livestock producers. In this way, NutriMix Feeds intends to fundamentally transform the dairy and beef sectors in Uganda into economically powerful vehicles for sustained growth and economic development, while simultaneously improving the quality of the earth’s environment by mitigating a substantive quantity of ruminant methane emissions.
Company Contact:
Dr. Gimoro L. Laker-Ojok
NutriMix Feeds Ltd.
P.O. Box 8830
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: 256-77-550025
E-mail: rojok@atuganda.or.ug