Keyword
Greenhouse Gases (GHG)
Armstrong launches aggressive “2 in 22” initiative
The company’s goal Is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2 million tons by 2022, targeting its installed customer base.
U.S. Clean Power Plan stumbles – Environmental Protection Agency responds
The North American renewable power industry received a blow last week when the U.S. Supreme court halted the implementation of President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan regulations. On February 9, the Supreme Court conceded in a 5-4 decision to the…
Canadian Energy Strategy recognizes need for low carbon options
Canada’s provincial premiers and territorial leaders reached unanimous agreement on a national energy strategy last week, despite early rumblings of dissent, particularly from Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan. The strategy was outlined in a 40-page document released July 17 during…
Unidentified sources massively fund climate change denial movement
According to an article published in The Daily Climate and republished in Scientific American online (December 23), conservative organizations are using anonymous third party trusts to channel funds to people and organizations that deny the…
Air-conditioning HFCs targeted as global warming threat
Warren Heeley, president of the Heating, Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI), wrote to Peter Kent, Canada’s Minister of the Environment, in early April requesting that someone get in touch about HRAI’s concerns.
Doha conference faces 58% rise in greenhouse gas emissions
As 200 nations meet in Doha, Qatar for the latest UN Climate Treaty talks, reports were painting a depressing picture of how the world has failed so far to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Reactions mixed to Durban Climate accord
On the heels of the U.N. conference on climate change held in Durban, South Africa that ended on Sunday, the Canadian government has decided to withdraw from the Kyoto Accord, the 1997 international agreement to cut greenhouse gases.
Alberta sets ground rules for carbon capture and storage
Alberta has introduced legislation to set out the ground rules and responsibilities related to carbon capture technologies.
U.K. studies storing carbon dioxide under North Sea
AMEC has been awarded a contract to do front-end engineering design of a carbon capture and storage project in…
Provinces take action on climate change
Three of Canada’s largest provinces have joined with two U.S. states to impose a cap-and-trade system for gree…
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Carbon sequestration gets under way in Alberta
Engineering and procurement are proceeding for the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL), a 240-kilometre Edmonto…
Canada promises UN that it will cut emissions
Canada is one of 55 countries that has followed up on the December 2009 Copenhagen Accord and given a specific…
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
As North America grapples with the implications of global climate change and a legislative response to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, many Canadian provinces and U.S. States have either begun to i…
Copenhagen summit reaches weak agreement
After two weeks of talks on climate change in Copenhagen, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the agreemen…
Group tracks carbon credit trading and issues warning
The Canadian activist group Probe International based in Toronto is arguing that the global carbon credit mark…
U.N. is upbeat about Copenhagen negotiations
As talks begin in Copenhagen at the historic United Nations climate change gathering, the international body i…
First Nations meet to discuss energy savings
Ontario’s First Nations and Metis Elders are meeting on September 3 in Thunder Bay, Ontario to discuss energy …
