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Lassonde targets packaging, reducing label size and increasing recyclability
Lassonde reduces label size, increases recyclability
As a beverage and food producer, Rougemont, Que.-based Lassonde is also a packaging company, and in its recently released sustainability report, it highlighted some key milestones in reducing excess waste.
Canadian Solar launches high-power-density module
Canadian Solar Inc. (CSIQ-Q) has announced the launch of its new TOPCon 3.0 high-power-density photovoltaic (PV) module, tailored for utility-scale power plants as well as commercial and industrial PV systems. The new product is scheduled for shipment starting in August.
EDF power JV signs offtake deal for B.C. wind project
EDF power solutions North America and its partner Saulteau First Nations have signed a power offtake deal with BC Hydro for the output of its 200.6-megawatt Taylor South wind project in British Columbia.
Public heavy-truck charger opens along Quebec freight route
In March, Propulsion Quebec released a study supporting the electrification of the Quebec City-Toronto corridor for heavy-duty trucks. This month, the first step was taken with the opening of an electric vehicle (EV) charger specifically for heavy transport.
MAX Power appoints Chad Levesque as president
MAX Power Mining Corp. (MAXX-CN) has named Chad Levesque as president and a new director of the board. Levesque has spent over two decades supporting North American resource and junior mining companies and brings extensive experience in corporate development.
Alberta’s new solar panel recycling fee sparks backlash
Alberta’s plan to introduce Canada’s first recycling fee on solar panels is drawing criticism from the renewable energy industry. Sector leaders argue the charge is disproportionately high and could discourage investment in what was once the country’s hottest green energy market.
What happens with floating solar panels during winter?
To accommodate demand for clean energy, researchers have been developing floating solar panels. New research published in the journal Applied Energy shows how one type of floating solar system operated during Canada’s cold winter conditions and efficiently generated clean energy.
A climate-friendly fertilizer option for Canadian farmers?
Though research is in early stages and has not yet been peer-reviewed, cold plasma fertilizer is being explored as one possible way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from traditional chemical fertilizers.
Gas prices and new incentives sparking more EV sales
After months of sluggish sales, EVs are getting a boost from high gas prices and renewed government incentives. EV sales have climbed since January, when Ottawa restored incentives, and just before the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran.
The battery revolution has arrived
COLUMN: When we think about batteries, we usually picture the little things powering our phones and gizmos. But projects offering grid-scale battery storage won contracts to provide hundreds of megawatts of capacity in Ontario, outcompeting new gas generation.
Data centres’ thirst for water enlarges their footprint
OPINION: Environmental assessments of artificial intelligence data centres tend to focus on their electricity use and carbon footprint, both of which are shockingly high and rising. Less well known is their vast water and land use.
Quebec town recognizes the rights of trees
Terrasse-Vaudreuil, a small town west of Montreal, has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada.
What sustainability leads say about SBTi’s new standard
Sustainability leaders have spent the past week digesting the 100-plus pages of Version 2 of the Corporate Net-Zero Standard from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The feedback has been largely positive, but the applause was not uniform.
What climate change costs you at the checkout
Climate change is turning one-off weather shocks into more regular events that can decimate harvests and strain supply chains. As their effects compound, extreme heat and droughts threaten to make climate inflation an economic fixture.
Europe suffers under record heat wave
Western Europe is enduring a ferocious heat wave forecast to break temperature records, with half of France on red alert, rail services in Belgium disrupted and sports events in Spain and Germany cancelled or postponed.
Efforts to save kelp forests are ramping up
Kelp forests — which shelter fish, slow erosion and sequester carbon — grew along a third of the world’s coastlines. Now, scientists are working to bolster heat-stressed kelp by attacking the urchins that prey on them and transplanting hardier kelp varieties.
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