Cloud seeding involves releasing salt into clouds to create crystals and encourage rain. Estimated costs run above $163,000 for 100 square km
Category: Energy & Environment
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Alberta challenges clean energy bill
Alberta will resort to a sovereignty law to oppose Ottawa’s plans to make the province’s national electricity grid carbon-neutral by 2035
Posted inEnergy & Environment
VW weighs staff reductions as electric shift stalls
Following 269 job cuts at an electric car plant, VW possibly looks to offer some staff early retirement or not replace positions of retirees
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Trudeau, EU leaders talk Ukraine and climate at Canada summit
The leaders discussed Ukraine, Canada’s mineral resources, a Canada-EU Green Alliance and the US’ Inflation Reduction Act
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Transition to electric vehicles faces delays in US
High cost and unreliable network of EV charging stations stalls new sales, hurts Biden’s plan to have 50 per cent of car sales be EV by 2030
Posted inEnergy & Environment
World’s richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds
The top one per cent were responsible for 16 per cent of global emissions — the same share as the bottom 66 per cent
Posted inCommentary
Carbon tax’s legality at risk due to heating oil exemption
Flying underneath the radar of Ottawa’s recent policy reversal are at least three arguments that could imperil the carbon tax’s legality
Posted inEnergy & Environment
PepsiCo sued by New York state over plastic pollution
The lawsuit seeks to impose financial penalties and damages on PepsiCo, as well as an order that the company cease selling single-use plastic goods
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Glencore takes majority stake in Canadian coal business
Trudeau said the takeover bid would go through a “rigorous process,” while Conservatives urged Ottawa to block deal over concerns about jobs
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Nations negotiate terms of plastics treaty
About two-thirds of plastic waste is disposed after a only being used once to a few times, and less than 10 per cent is recycled