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Environment
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Maximum Uptime
Honda of Canada Manufacturing uses preventative and predictive maintenance to ensure production keeps moving. Back in 1986, Honda Motor Company became the first Japanese automotive manufacturer to build a production plant in Canada, creating Honda of Canada Manufacturing (HCM). The…
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Ottawa and P.E.I. spending $14.5 million to build climate change research centre
CHARLOTTETOWN – The federal government unveiled plans Friday to build a $14.5-million climate change research centre in a rural corner of Prince Edward Island. Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay said the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation will be…
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Pipeline spill spoils geothermal project announcement for oil company
CALGARY – A junior oil company is announcing government funding for an environmentally friendly geothermal power project at the same time that it is cleaning up a spill of oil and water from a pipeline in northern Alberta. Calgary-based Razor…
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B.C. imposes interim moratorium on resource development to protect caribou
VANCOUVER – The British Columbia government announced an interim moratorium on resource development in parts of the south Peace region on Thursday, giving itself more time to sign a long-term strategy to protect dwindling caribou populations. The government said it…
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Fire triggers pollution concerns at US Steel coke plant
(AP) – The second fire in six months at U.S. Steel’s massive coke plant outside Pittsburgh knocked a key pollution control system offline for nearly 16 hours Monday, prompting a health warning for residents and stern words from the region’s…
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U.S. ramps up concern over B.C. pollution; eight senators write to premier
Eight U.S. senators say Canadian mines in British Columbia are endangering cross-border rivers through a combination of poor environmental assessments and inadequate monitoring. “We remain concerned about the lack of oversight of Canadian mining projects near multiple transboundary rivers that…
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Metals mines, accounting for most federal enviro assessments, OK with Bill C 69
OTTAWA – The head of the Mining Association of Canada says the hotly contested federal environmental assessment bill is welcome in the industry it will affect the most. “This promises to be a better system than what we’ve had for…
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Environment groups say oil industry asks will lead to ‘climate chaos’
OTTAWA – Several of Canada’s leading environment groups say election demands from Canada’s oil industry earlier this week are a direct attack on the future health and prosperity of Canadians. The different visions for Canada’s economic and environmental policies are…
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Shoppers want green packaging, but don’t want to pay for it, study suggests
Canadians say they care about the environmental damage caused by single-use plastic packaging, but not enough to open up their wallets and pay for costlier alternatives, a new study suggests. “I was disappointed,” said Sylvain Charlebois, a Dalhousie University professor…
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Green’s call for ban on foreign oil imports, using Alberta oil instead
OTTAWA – Green party Leader Elizabeth May says saving the world from climate change requires Canada to get off oil before the middle of the century. In the meantime, she wants Canada off foreign oil as soon as possible. The…
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NDP unveils parts of climate plan in motion as the Green Party edges closer
OTTAWA – NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will cut Canada’s emissions almost in half over the next decade as he tries to stake out a claim to the climate change agenda in the looming federal election. The pledge…
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Saskatchewan carbon capture facility likely to fall short of annual target: CEO
REGINA – The CEO of SaskPower says he doesn’t think the province’s carbon capture and storage facility will be able to meet its yearly target for trapping carbon dioxide. Mike Marsh says the Crown corporation’s coal-fired Boundary Dam power plant…
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CanWEA Hosts Spring Forum in Banff
CanWEA recently held its two-day Spring Forum at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Banff, Alberta. Over 170 professionals from the wind energy industry were on hand to discuss the state of the industry, Alberta election results, new technology, and much…
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B.C. introduces law to require cars, trucks sold by 2040 be zero emission
VICTORIA – All light-duty cars and trucks sold in British Columbia would have to be zero-emission by 2040 under legislation tabled Wednesday. Energy Minister Michelle Mungall says the Zero Emission Vehicles Act aims to fight climate change by phasing out…
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New carbon tax starts coming in for 4 provinces that fought the federal plan
People in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick will be paying more for gasoline and heating fuel Monday when the federal government’s carbon tax begins in provinces that refused to impose their own emissions pricing. The federal tax is $20…
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Report calls for increase in electric buses as manufacturing footprint grows
TORONTO – A new report by a green energy think-tank calls for increased investment in electric buses to both reduce emissions and boost Canada’s growing manufacturing base of the vehicles. The report by Clean Energy Canada says that while Canada…
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Doug Ford says the Liberals’ carbon tax will plunge Canada into recession
TORONTO – The premier of Ontario says a federal carbon tax will plunge the country into recession. Doug Ford says the federal Liberal government’s climate plan will trigger an economic downturn. In his address to the Economic Club of Canada…
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New tax incentives for investment could increase Canada’s emissions
OTTAWA – Big greenhouse-gas emitters will be able to take advantage of new federal tax incentives Finance Minister Bill Morneau promised Wednesday even if that means more emissions, the government says. Measures in Morneau’s fall fiscal update will allow manufacturing…
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EDC spends 12 times more for fossil fuels than clean tech, report says
OTTAWA – New research shows Export Development Canada provided 12 times as much financial backing to oil and gas companies as it did to clean-technology companies over the last five years. The findings by lobby group Oil Change International show…
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GFL Environmental buying U.S. company Waste Industries in deal valued at $3.65B
Toronto-based GFL Environmental Inc. has signed a deal to buy Waste Industries in an agreement that values the U.S. company at about $3.65 billion. The deal will more than double GFL’s footprint in the United States. “Waste Industries strongly complements…
