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mCloud technology to be used in Slate’s Life Plaza
mCloud technology to be used in Slate’s Life Plaza
Moving its headquarters to Calgary is already paying off with new business for mCloud Technologies Corp. The firm has announced a three-year contract to incorporate its AssetCare HVAC technology in Slate Asset Management’s downtown Life Plaza office tower.
Eleven-x, SaskTel smart city tech improves efficiency
Global smart-city solutions supplier eleven-x is extending its partnership with SaskTel to enable smart city initiatives across the province.
Gordie Howe Bridge earns sustainability award
The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority and Bridging North America, owner and builder respectively of the Gordie Howe International Bridge project linking Detroit and Windsor have been won an Envision Platinum Award for sustainable construction from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI).
Minto Apartment REIT sets 18 goals in first ESG report
Minto Apartment REIT has released its first standalone ESG report, including 18 initiatives with distinct goals. Minto’s 2020 ESG Report organizes the action plan under three pillars to guide it over the next five years: business resilience, community impact and environmental impact.
Ont. public building costs rise without climate adaptation
The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) released the Costing Climate Change Impacts to Public Infrastructure Project on December 7, detailing the costs to the province’s buildings and infrastructure if it fails to adapt to a warming planet. Currently, “under stable
Ontario Power site is becoming an green showcase
• Globe and Mail • RENX
A controversial site on the shores of Lake Ontario, once the location of a coal-fired power plant, is being transformed into an environmental showcase. Lakeview Village will be built on 177 acres, the site of Ontario Power Generation’s Lakeview Generating Station.
B.C., Quebec get new EVs before other provinces
When carmakers launch new EVs in Canada, Quebec and British Columbia usually get dibs. “EVs are typically launched first in B.C. and Quebec,” says Joanna Kyriazis, senior policy advisor with Clean Energy Canada an environmental nonprofit.
Calgary start-up receives $1M grant for greener lithium
For oil industry geophysicist Amanda Hall, CEO and founder of Summit Nanotech, a Calgary-based tech startup, the inspiration for finding a cleaner, more sustainable process of filtering lithium came from the human body’s own filtration system — the kidneys.
‘Just transition’ is the new ‘net zero’
• Green Biz • Corporate Secretary • The Real Deal
“Just transition.” For the uninitiated, it’s a compelling, albeit vague term. But for those in sustainability circles, it’s quickly rising up the charts. You hear about it in corporate communications and international policy, and from any number of advocacy groups.
Canada, ‘stuck at the starting gate’ of decarbonization
Canada will have to double the generation of clean, renewable electricity over the next eight years and dramatically accelerate the electrification of transportation and heating of buildings to meet international commitments to battle climate change, says Corporate Knights.
Cities are taking the lead on climate change
OPINION: Recent natural events in British Columbia — unprecedented heat and flood levels not seen in 500 years — have brought home the reality of climate change to Canadians. It’s clear that we must do everything in our power to act — now.
Canada’s plan for creating a net-zero electricity grid
OPINION: Canada is an electricity heavyweight. In addition to being the world’s sixth-largest electricity producer and third-largest electricity exporter, Canada can boast an electricity grid that is now 83-per-cent emission-free, with the cheapest residential electricity rates in the G7.
Cogeco unveils climate action plan, earns ‘A’ rating
Cogeco presented its first Climate Action Plan which also includes its Task Force on Climate-Related Disclosures report outlining the key steps the company is taking in support of urgent climate action earning an ‘A’ rating from an internationally recognized organization CDP.
First-of-its-kind sustainability data centres framework
Schneider Electric™, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, released a comprehensive novel framework for environmentally sustainable data centres. The industry-first framework proposes five areas of environmental impact inclusive of key metrics for data centre operators.
Oils sands site collects relief from pollution payments
For three straight years, Alberta’s government granted Canada’s most emissions-intense oil sands facility reductions in payments that polluters are required to make for generating higher emissions than most of the industry, a government document shows.
Cenovus doubles down on carbon capture
Cenovus Energy Inc. will pursue three new carbon-capture projects in the next five years as it seeks to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 35 per cent by the end of 2035, and become a net-zero producer of emissions by 2050.
Health care system healing its environmental sore points
• Globe and Mail • Montreal Gazette
The patient-care principle ‘first do no harm’ seems to fly in the face of many essentials in running the health system: intensive cleaning with harsh chemicals, one-time use of personal protective equipment and other procedures leave a heavy ecological footprint.
Payouts may keep climbing due to severe weather
Canada may not be fully prepared for the flood risks it currently faces – case in point, many properties flood more than once – let alone for what climate change could bring, Judith Ellison, catastrophe modelling manager at JBA Risk Management told a Dec. 2 CatIQ Connect Quarterly session.
B.C. shifts to recovery management phase
British Columbia is shifting into repair and recovery mode following devastating floods and landslides caused by record rains that crippled transportation links, deluged agricultural operations and forced the evacuations of thousands of people, says the province’s public safety minister.
Conservation group acquires Manitoulin Island, Ontario
• Globe and Mail • CBC • Global News
More than 18,000 acres of the Vidal Bay forest and shoreline property, west of Meldrum Bay on Manitoulin Island will become a permanently protected wilderness area following one of the most significant transfers of Canadian private land for conservation in decades.
Industry Events
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Greenbuild 2024: Built to Scale
Nov 12 2024
to Nov 15 2024
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Sustainable Finance Forum 2024
Nov 28 2024
to Nov 29 2024
Shaw Centre, Ottawa
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