Category Archives: Utilities
Feds throw support behind development of mini nuclear reactors; action plan released
TORONTO — Nuclear power is essential to meeting Canada's climate-change goals, and developing portable mini nuclear reactors is a key part of that strategy, the federal energy minister said on Friday. In announcing an "action plan" for developing small...
‘It can no longer be free to pollute:’ Updated climate plan includes carbon tax hikes
OTTAWA — The federal government has released a $15-billion plan to meet its climate change commitments that includes steady increases to its carbon tax in each of the next 10 years."It can no longer be free to pollute anywhere in
Governments to invest in $875-million biofuel plant project southeast of Montreal
MONTREAL — Quebec and federal officials announced an investment Tuesday in a biofuel production facility that will use non-recyclable residual materials, diverting those items from landfills while reducing greenhouse gases in the province. The Varenne...
Enerkem and partners to spend $876 million to build biofuels plant in Quebec
VARENNES, Que. — Enerkem and a group of partners, including Shell, Suncor Energy Inc. and Hydro-Quebec plan to spend $876 million to build a biofuel production plant in Quebec from non-recyclable residual materials and wood waste. Varennes Carbon Recyc...
Alberta offers Rocky Mountain coal leases after rescinding protection policy
EDMONTON — Alberta is offering more of its Rocky Mountain landscapes to coal mining after rescinding a decades-old policy that protected them. In documents released earlier this week, Alberta Energy is giving miners until Dec. 15 to bid on nearly 2,00...
Ottawa delays small nuclear reactor plan as critics decry push for new reactors
TORONTO — Canadians will have to wait a little while longer to see the federal government's plan for the development of small nuclear reactors, seen by proponents as critical to the country's fight against global warming. Speaking at the opening of
Feds launch nuclear-waste strategy review amid elusive solutions for toxic waste
TORONTO — The federal government has launched a new initiative aimed at finding long-term solutions for the growing quantity of radioactive waste produced by Canada's nuclear reactors. To that end, the government wants members of the industry, the gene...
Supreme Court of Canada sides with Hydro-Québec over transmission line project
OTTAWA — Hydro-Québec has the right to construct an electric-power transmission line along an existing corridor despite the objections of land owners, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. In 2015, the provincial government approved Hydro-Québec's pla...
Feds fund small nuclear reactor ahead of national strategy to adopt more of them
OTTAWA — An Ontario nuclear power company is getting $20 million from Ottawa to try to get its new small modular reactor in line with Canada's safety regulations.The grant to Terrestrial Energy in Oakville, Ont., is the first investment Canada
Group of prominent people demand immediate halt to Site C over stability concerns
VANCOUVER — A former president of BC Hydro and a former federal fisheries minister are among 18 prominent Canadians urging the provincial government to halt work on a huge hydroelectric project in northeastern B.C. The letter signed by former Hydro pre...