Charbone Hydrogen preps for Q4 production

BIZ  Energy  •  Clean Energy, Technology  •  Quebec, International

CHARBONE Hydrogen Corporation (Charbone) has spent August expanding its green hydrogen business with the aim of starting production in the fourth quarter of this year.

EV Plug-In: ProEV opens Montreal manufacturing plant

BIZ  Transportation  •  Technology  •  National, International

Promark Electronics Inc. (ProEV) has opened a manufacturing and engineering site for commercial and industrial electric vehicles (EVs) — what a release states is the largest of its kind in North America.

Johnson Controls, 3Degrees partner on decarbonization

BIZ  Real Estate  •  Infrastructure  •  International

Johnson Controls and 3Degrees will combine their expertise to tackle building decarbonization through energy supply services and energy efficiency delivered by a digital platform.

Vision Marine sets world electric boat speed record

BIZ  Transportation  •  Clean Energy, Technology  •  Greater Montreal, International

Canada’s Vision Marine Technologies Inc. has helped set a new world record for the fastest electric boat, surpassing the previous record by over 30 kilometres per hour.

Companies fire back on Texas’ ESG hostility

Real Estate  •  Financial Post

Financial groups included on a blacklist of companies that Texas considers hostile to fossil fuels have attacked the process as politicized and arbitrary.

RBC passes Texas fossil fuel test

Real Estate  •  Castanet

Royal Bank of Canada’s climate policies have been deemed mild enough to pass a Texas test on whether banks are boycotting oil and gas companies.

TD Bank offers new carbon credit ETF

Finance  •  Seeking Alpha

TD Asset Management has unveiled a new ESG-focused exchange traded fund that offers the investment community access to the carbon credit marketplace.

Canada’s banks could be kicked from net-zero coalition

Real Estate  •  Toronto Star

A new report from Greenpeace warns that Canada’s biggest banks – RBC, TD, CIBC, BMO and Scotiabank – could be pushed out of a UN-backed net-zero emissions coalition if they don’t boost their climate commitments.

Transition debt is next leg of Canadian ESG rollout

Real Estate  •  Bloomberg

Debt to finance companies’ plans to reduce pollution is likely the next phase in the environmental, social and governance-labeled debt markets in Canada, one of the world’s largest oil and natural gas producers.

Brookfield, CPP bidding for Indian energy giant

Finance  •  NewsDrum

ArcelorMittal, Brookfield and Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board are among over a dozen entities that have evinced interest in buying stake in NTPC Green Energy Ltd, according to sources.

First Solar plans to spend $1.2B on U.S. factories

Real Estate  •  Bloomberg

First Solar Inc., America’s biggest panel maker, plans to invest about $1.2 billion to expand its U.S. manufacturing capacity after Congress passed a landmark climate bill.

Bill Gates-led fund backs methanol as green shipping fuel

Real Estate  •  Bloomberg

Green fuels and new engines to consume them could help limit climate-warming emissions from giant ships that keep the world economy moving.

How Africa could become a global hydrogen powerhouse

Energy  •  Green Biz

Methane emissions can get to near-zero with regulations

Carbon  •  The Energy Mix

A new case study from Alberta shows that when regulators force the issue and producers of fossil fuels get serious, the companies can drastically reduce their methane emissions without any immediate reduction in their oil and gas extraction.

Feds reject N.S. carbon pricing alternative

Carbon  •  Global News

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault rejected Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston’s alternative to the carbon tax. Minister Guilbeault did leave the door open for “alternative proposals” however.

Electricity grid capacity a 2030 imperative

Real Estate  •  REMI Network

Energy management specialists stress the importance of infrastructure investment to support clean generation, stable transmission and the integration of smart technologies that will be central to monitoring demand and dispatching a complicated supply mix.

The ‘clean energy arms race’ between China, U.S.

Energy  •  The Energy Mix

China suspended cooperative climate talks with the U.S. after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trip to Taiwan. But contrary to initial worries, some observers are taking hope from a “clean energy arms race” in the making.

Data centres face water scarcity and climate risk

Real Estate  •  NPR

Data centres are springing up around the world to handle the torrent of information from the expanding web of devices ingrained in people’s lives and the economy. Managing that digital information gusher is big business. It also comes with hidden environmental costs.

Pilot program aims to turn ‘dead wood’ into lumber

Real Estate  •  Western Investor

Deadwood Innovations, of Fort St. James, in a joint venture with the Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation, has a unique, pilot-scale mill based in the former Tl’Oh Forest Products mill in the northern B.C. community.

UN joins dispute over Alta. oilsands wastewater

Real Estate  •  Financial Post

When the Mikisew Cree First Nation grew tired of warning elected officials that the Peace-Athabasca Delta in northern Alberta was slowly drying up, they went international in a bid to find help.