Umicore to build $1.5B Ontario EV battery parts facility

BIZ  Energy  •  Investment, Technology  •  Ontario

Umicore N.V., a Belgian circular materials technology company, has announced a $1.5 billion investment meant to build an industrial scale cathode and precursor materials manufacturing plant for electric vehicle (EV) battery parts, in Loyalist Township, Ont.

Gulf Stream Marine terminals earn green certifications

BIZ  Transportation  •  Industrial  •  Quebec, International

Montreal-based marine transportation services company Logistec has certified five Texas terminals, owned by its subsidiary Gulf Stream Marine, under the Green Marine Environmental Certification Program.

Developers race to reach absolute zero carbon

Real Estate  •  Bloomberg

A small clutch of developers is upping the ante in the green arms race for office space by pledging to do away with the crutch of carbon offsetting. Dutch developer Edge is the latest firm committing to reach absolute zero carbon on its new developments by at least 2050.

Toronto’s ‘tall and sprawl’ needs rethinking: Lorinc

Real Estate  •  Daily Commercial News

How do we remove overly prescriptive, rigid development policies to achieve net-zero buildings and cities? That was the topic of conversation during the virtual SvN Speaks 3 hosted by SvN Architects + Planners and moderated by SvN’s managing partner Drew Sinclair.

Irving Oil invests in hydrogen to lower emissions

Energy  •  Global News

Irving Oil is expanding hydrogen capacity at its Saint John, N.B., refinery in a bid to lower carbon emissions and offer clean energy to customers with a five-megawatt hydrogen electrolyzer which will create two tonnes of hydrogen a day.

Buckeye Partners acquires Bear Head Energy

Energy  •  Offshore Energy

Bear Head Energy is developing a large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia production, storage and export project in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia with hydrogen electrolyser capacity of over two gigawatts.

OPG and X-energy pursue clean energy with SMRs

Energy  •  Microgrid Media

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has signed an agreement with Rockville, Maryland-based X-energy to deploy Xe-100 small modular reactors (SMRs) for clean energy industrial applications in Canada.

Europe won’t need Canada’s LNG

Energy  •  Corporate Knights

N.L. may already have a buyer for wind farm hydrogen

Real Estate  •  CBC

A wind farm project on Newfoundland’s west coast slated to produce green hydrogen energy in a plant in Stephenville already has interest from an overseas buyer.

Creating cooling canopies in Canadian cities

Real Estate, Social  •  CBC

Unequal access to shade means marginalized neighbourhoods are more vulnerable to heat and the impacts of climate change. Here’s how Canadian cities can save lives.

Deborah Byrne and her Quantum leap

Real Estate  •  Daily Commercial News

Transferring a career and family from downtown Toronto to the rural Ontario town of Minden is seismic by any reckoning. However, that’s exactly what Deborah Byrne, one of the country’s best-known PassivHaus proponents, decided to do this past spring.

Responsible-investing pioneer awarded Order of Canada

ESG  •  Corporate Knights

HyCC launches 500-MW hydrogen project in Amsterdam

Energy  •  Renewable Energy Magazine

Hydrogen company HyCC has launched Project H₂era to construct a 500-megawatt green hydrogen plant in the Amsterdam port area. The project aims to develop the regional hydrogen economy to help decarbonize industry and mobility.

Company claims ‘first’ non-electric electrolysis platform

Energy  •  H2 View

Houston, Texas-based Utility Global claims to have invented the industry’s first non-electric electrolysis technology platform for the ability to produce net-zero hydrogen conversion.

German green hydrogen company gets Amazon backing

Energy  •  H2 View

German electrolyser developer and manufacturer Sunfire announced on Wednesday it had become the ‘first’ green hydrogen company based in the European Union to receive an investment from Amazon’s $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund.

Three new and different reasons for microgrids

Energy  •  Microgrid Knowledge

Microgrids are known for their resilience against extreme weather, but they seem to be taking on new importance in light of climate concerns, geopolitical disruption and the state of the U.S. grid.

The fund pioneering a new model for carbon removal

Carbon  •  Green Biz

Frontier is looking to catapult carbon removal and offset purchasing into a new era. And it appears that the advance market commitment model is the right path to take.

Microsoft expands carbon removal with Climeworks

Carbon  •  Environment + Energy Leader

Microsoft has signed a 10-year agreement with Climeworks to use direct air capture to remove 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

EU countries mull options to avoid carbon market plan

Carbon  •  Reuters

European Union countries are considering alternatives to an EU plan to use a carbon market reserve to help finance their exit from Russian gas, as some fear the proposal would undermine the bloc’s main climate change policy.

Green tech boom threatened by soaring solar costs

Energy  •  Bloomberg

The price of polysilicon, a key material for solar panels, rose for the seventh straight week, threatening to slow clean energy installations critical to the world’s efforts to achieve climate targets.