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3E Nano works to commercialize heat-reflecting nano-coating
3E Nano raises $10.5M for window nano-coating
3E Nano Inc. plans to use a recent influx of funding totalling around $10.5 million to further commercialization of its heat-reflecting nano-coating for polymers that significantly reduces a building's energy consumption by trapping heat that passes through windows.
Workplace peers can vie for status in CNC program
Canadian company Carbon Neutral Club (CNC) aims to drive climate action and awareness in the workplace with its software that tracks and incentivizes cutting individual greenhouse gas emissions in a friendly competition between co-workers.
Li-Cycle unveils Kion partnership, new French facility
Li-Cycle Holdings Corp., a Mississauga-based battery recycler, has announced a lithium-ion battery recycling partnership with German industrial equipment firm Kion Group and a plan for a new battery recycling facility in France to further its European expansion.
Bird Canada expands to 3 Greater Toronto Area cities
Electric transportation provider Bird Global Inc. says it will expand across the Greater Toronto Area this spring, becoming the exclusive operator of shared e-scooters in Hamilton, and operating fleets of hundreds of e-scooters in Brampton and Oshawa.
TD raises sustainable finance goal to $500B by 2030
After exceeding its $100-billion sustainable finance target ahead of schedule, TD Bank Group is setting a new goal of investing $500 billion on environmental, decarbonization and social actions by 2030 to serve as its "North Star."
Varennes Carbon refinery receives $277M CIB loan
UPDATED: The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has announced a $277-million loan to support Varennes Carbon Recycling’s $1.2-billion Quebec biorefinery and Canada’s largest electrolyzer. The announcement is the second major development in recent days for the complex.
Eyes on Canadian budget's green investments
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is expected to deliver a budget Tuesday that will emphasize billions toward the green economy through tax credits and spending as a response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act that has put Canada on the defensive.
Federal budget to pitch over $3B cleantech credit
The federal budget will announce a clean-tech manufacturing tax credit aimed at encouraging the mining of critical minerals in Canada, a credit that will be worth more than $3-billion over five years, according to a senior government official.
Budget to secure future carbon credit prices
Canada's budget will introduce a system to lock in future carbon credit prices, a move meant to boost investments by giving businesses certainty to develop low-carbon technologies, a senior government source with knowledge of the document told Reuters.
CPP exploring buying out ReNew Energy shareholders
CPP Investments is exploring buying the shares of Indian company ReNew Energy Global that it doesn’t already own and taking the Nasdaq-listed firm private, according to people with knowledge of the matter. CPP is already the majority owner of ReNew.
Atlantic provinces eye electrification of school bus fleet
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador are considering electrifying their school bus fleets. The study will look at how electric school buses are being used across Canada and identify infrastructure needs, including grid capacity and potential limitations.
Changes to N.S. law jolt energy storage projects
The government of Nova Scotia has made amendments to the province’s Electricity Act that breaks up the monopoly on owning energy storage Nova Scotia Power holds, with the view to accelerating the deployment of energy storage.
Experts say N.L's new oil and gas initiatives defy logic
Just days after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded with the world to take a “quantum leap in climate action,” Newfoundland and Labrador doubled down on oil and gas exploration and revived its seismic testing program.
Montreal applies ban on some single-use plastics
Starting today, Montrealers will not be able to get plastic cups, straws and stir sticks at most Montreal-area cafés and restaurants, and plastic cutlery won’t be available for those dining in as part of a new bylaw.
A Caisse company that pollutes too much?
Two Mexican factories, in which the Caisse de depot et placement du Québec holds 30 per cent of the shares, are singled out in a new report by two non-governmental organizations claiming the areas exceed Mexico's lead standards.
Quebec battery industry not easy to finance locally
Announcements are multiplying in the battery sector, but some Quebec players are struggling to convince local investors to support them. To continue to have a say at the decision-making table, the industry believes that a change of direction is necessary.
How is Saskatchewan reducing its methane emissions?
In 2020, Saskatchewan produced more than 15,500 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in methane emissions. The province's waste, cattle and oil and gas industries and governments say work is being done to reduce methane emissions. How is it being achieved?
The movement to protect carbon-storing grasslands
Beneath Saskatchewan's wild prairie beneath lies a storehouse of life. Billions of tonnes of carbon are stored under Canadian grasslands, and they're a critical tool in the struggle to maintain a healthy climate which groups are working to secure.
Alberta may have to return oil and gas clean-up funds
The Alberta government may have to return $130 million in leftover funding to the federal government after not spending the money to clean up old oil and gas wells to address their environmental hazard.
Tiny island nation takes climate change to The Hague
The small Pacific island country of Vanuatu is poised to gain UN approval to seek an unprecedented legal opinion in the International Court of Justice on what obligation countries have to combat climate change.
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