Sustainable
Nova Scotia ‘failing’ on environmental project monitoring: AG
Examined 22 projects and found almost half of the 53 terms and conditions weren’t met.
UN climate chief urges investors to switch from fossil to renewable energy
$1 trillion a year of global investment in clean energy needed by 2050 to avoid temperature increase over 2 degrees C.
Eocycle gets $5.9M to develop greener wind turbine generator
SDTC funding to show viability of Transverse Flux Permanent Magnet technology.
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Three cleantech deals signed during India trade mission
Electrovaya, Prairie Pulp & Paper, Westport Innovations to contribute sustainable technologies.
Quebec and Manitoba to develop green economies
Provinces make the pledge at Rio conference on sustainable development.
Manufacturing sales down in April: Statistics Canada
Third drop in four months driven by aerospace and parts
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Canuck CEOs trailing globally on R&D investment plans: PwC
Canadian CEOs are missing the boat when it comes to R&D and innovation plans for everyhting from new products and services to finding cost reductions in existing practices, according to a global survey by PwC.
Water use charge for industry proposed
The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy wants governments to put a price on water used by industry – even though Canada is awash in H2O.
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Sea-faring bearings
Thordon Bearings builds its global business making rudder and shaftline products that use seawater for lubrication.
Oil sands: a global sustainable energy leader?
A Deloitte report declares Canada is poised to do for global hydrocarbon-based energy development what Germany has done for the renewable energy research and development and manufacturing sectors.
Solar inverter plant coming to Guelph
TORONTO: Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd. will locate its main North American SUNERGY inverter assembly and test facility in Guelph, Ont. The developer and manufacturer of parallel solar inverter technologies based in Calgary said the high-volume assembly and test facility will…
Sustainable Energy scores first Paralex sale in Greece
ATHENS, Greece: Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd. is delivering its first PARALEX systems in Greece this month through its wholly owned subsidiary MainPower Hellas. MainPower will supply Clarus Esco SA with PARALEX packages and SUNERGY inverters for thin-film and crystalline-based roof…
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New Flyer sells Ottawa 360 buses
New Flyer’s new D60LFR articulated bus.Photo: New Flyer WINNIPEG: New Flyer Industries Inc. has added 306 of its new articulated clean diesel buses to its order book. Ottawa City Council has approved the $190 million purchase of the D60LFR buses…
Biofuel process to develop sugar substitute, cellulose ethanol
WATERDOWN, Ont.: SunOpta BioProcess Inc. will get up to $5.5 million in federal in funding for the construction of a biofuel pilot plant somewhere in Southern Ontario. The funding from the Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) will go towards demonstrating…
