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Ken Soble Tower world’s largest EnerPHit retrofit
Ken Soble Tower world’s largest EnerPHit retrofit
The Ken Soble Tower in Hamilton has become the world’s largest residential building certified to the Passive House EnerPHit standard, the first retrofit of its kind in North America.
Retail Council of Canada appoints VP of sustainability
The Retail Council of Canada has appointed Michael Zabaneh as its new vice president of sustainability to help retailers continue on an environmentally friendly path as they do business.
Indigenous groups bid for carbon capture complex
• CBC
A group of Indigenous communities in Alberta are competing with big-name oil and gas companies to secure the rights to construct and operate the first large-scale, regional carbon capture and storage facility likely at the cost of billions of dollars.
Global carbon market value soars to $851B in 2021
According to analysts at Refinitiv, Global Carbon Markets grew 164 per cent in 2021 – reaching $851 billion. 90 per cent of the global value is due to the European Union’s Emissions Trading System which opened in 2005. It is the world’s most established carbon market.
GFL Environmental spearheads renewable gas project
An eastern Ontario council approved a request by GFL Environmental Inc. to extend existing natural gas infrastructure to its Eastern Ontario Waste Handling Facility to facilitate injection of renewal natural gas (RNG) from the landfill into the N.A. gas grid.
EVs only hope for Canada’s shrinking auto industry
OPINION: Before the 1965 Canada-U.S. auto pact, this country ran a chronic trade deficit in cars. As station wagons filled the driveways of postwar North America, Canada’s auto industry remained largely shut out of that vast car-crazy country to the south.
EV charging patchwork becoming a network in U.S.
• GreenBiz
With the infusion of $7.5 billion in dedicated funding within President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package, electric vehicle charging is to become more standardized, equally distributed geographically, and establish 500,000 new EV charging stations from coast to coast by 2030.
3 ways we can keep flying with zero-carbon emissions
• GreenBiz
Aviation contributes 2 per cent of global CO2 emissions adding 1 billion metric tons of carbon annually. The race is on to find alternative fuels for planes yet air traffic is set to grow 4 per cent a year to 2040.
Portland Common’s ‘healthy building’ design
A commercial project in downtown Toronto may not be the city’s biggest new office building, but it might be one of the healthiest. Portland Commons is a 15-storey, 560,000-square-foot building is under construction in a trendy King Street West neighbourhood.
For Pittsburgh, clean air remains an elusive goal
• 360 Yale
For 100 years, the Pittsburgh region was infamous for its industrial air pollution. Belching chimneys from coal and steel plants dimmed the light of the sun at times, prompting a writer in 1868 to call Pittsburgh “hell with the lid taken off.”
B.C. planning to protect drinking water, ecosystems
• Vancouver Sun • Globe and Mail
The B.C. government says it is developing a strategy to protect watersheds from urban development that focuses on the availability of drinking water, healthy ecosystems, a sufficient supply of water to support the supply of food and local economic needs.
Quebec must budget for climate-related infrastructure
Quebec should follow the lead of countries such as Denmark and analyze the revenue and expenses, such as health care costs or logging royalties, most exposed to climate risks, according to a recent think tank report shared with finance ministry officials.
Hydro Québec’s 40-year deal with Brookfield Renewables
Hydro-Québec has struck a deal to buy electricity from Brookfield Renewable Partners LP unit Evolugen under a 40-year contract as the Quebec utility shores up its power supplies to meet the ballooning demand for clean energy.
The U.S. steps closer to a legal climate standard
Last week, the District Court in D.C. delivered a stunning and unexpected victory to climate advocates. It voided offshore oil and gas leases, recently sold by the federal government to energy companies, across 2,700 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico.
Burnaby endorses Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Burnaby has become the latest city to sign on to a global treaty that recognizes the climate crisis and the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels by unanimously endorsing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Alberta court denies Benga Mining request
• CBC
The Alberta Court of Appeal top court has rejected a request from Benga Mining and two area First Nations to appeal a regulatory decision that denied permits for the Grassy Mountain coal mine in the province’s Rocky Mountains.
When Indigenous people decline mining needed for EV
At the peak of the summer, the Nlaka’pamux Nation, one of the Indigenous Peoples of south-central British Columbia, used to know when the salmon had returned to local rivers by the annual blooming of the waxz’ethlap, or wild mock-orange shrub.
Chile vote first step to seizing lithium, copper mines
A proposal that opens the door to nationalizing some of the biggest copper and lithium mines in the world was approved in first instance by a committee as part of the drafting of a new constitution in Chile.
Climate risk analytics software scene is expanding
• GreenBiz
The field of climate risk analytics and intelligence is getting more crowded. Last week, one of the oldest weather forecasting services in the U.S., AccuWeather, introduced its own take on these sorts of services, ClimateReady Risk Mitigation.
Satellite data reveals how to fix a methane hotspot
In the western Turkmenistan desert, 29 pieces of oil and gas equipment have been spewing enough methane each year to rival the annual emissions from all the cars in Alabama, mostly the result of poorly maintained or leaky equipment — and largely avoidable.
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