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Has Ottawa put moratorium on conventional coal power?
Saw a few stories today, based on an article that appeared in the Globe and Mail, suggesting the federal government has drawn the line when it comes to coal-fired power plants, or at least the kind of plants that don’t capture and permanently store their CO2. Canada’s federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice apparently met last... [read more]
Can N.B. land Google?
CHELSEA MURRAY TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL As the IT industry’s greenhouse gas emissions skyrocket, corporations such as Google are looking for locations abundant in cheap renewable resources to house their infamous energy-sucking data centres. At U.S.-based data centres, Google spends 40 per cent of annual payroll costs on health care compared... [read more]
AECL future? Who’s really ‘dysfunctional’ in Canada?
It's time for the crown corporation to stop being an Ottawa sucker and act like an Ice Road Trucker Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper may come to regret his blunt language reported in the Economist June 18 in which his spokesman called Atomic Energy Canada Limited (AECL) “dysfunctional.” The insulting language, which will... [read more]
Economic versus Environmental Credibility
All eyes will be on Ottawa’s Trail Road Landfill to see whether its plasma gasification technology could be as cost effective, while keeping below strict environmental and emissions standards. After months of controlled tests, Tyler Hamilton1 reports that in January Plasco’s Ottawa plant will begin to accept a regular stream of MSW (... [read more]
$100 million Canadian cleantech fund in the works
Ottawa-area venture capital firm Venture Coaches is preparing to launch a $100 million cleantech fund committed to investment in Canadian companies. According to the firm, the new fund will focus on companies engaged in the research, design, development and manufacture of "energy efficient materials; components; sub-systems, systems and... [read more]
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