Quebec Innovative Materials Corp. announced the launch of its Hydrogen Exploration Initiative, marking a significant step towards leveraging the province of Quebec's renewable energy potential to drive the transition towards a sustainable and carbon-neutral future. White hydrogen, also known as natural or gold hydrogen, forms through a natural geological process and holds immense promise as a clean and versatile energy source.

QI's exploration initiative aims to harness Quebec's abundant renewable resources to extract white hydrogen efficiently and cost-effectively, positioning the province of Quebec as a key player in the global hydrogen economy. Using the Hutchinson model (Greenstones as a source of hydrogen in cratonic sedimentary basins, February 2024) as well as the recent success by Gold Hydrogen in their Australian Ramsay discovery, The Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) and QI Materials' key objectives for this fully financed white hydrogen exploration initiative include: Starting in June, INRS teams will be out in the field, taking gas samples from the soil (soil gas survey) and conducting underwater surveys in Lake Temiscamingue. These surveys will be used, among other things, to locate degassing zones associated with faults in the Temiscamingue rift.

Subsequently, geophysical surveys will be carried out to detect deep structures in the rock. Drone surveys will also be realized to provide useful remote sensing data for hydrogen and helium exploration. Fieldwork will be carried out mainly in the Municipality of St-Bruno-de-Guigues sector.