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BC Hydrogen Office to streamline hydrogen projects, ensure clean energy future

March 31, 2022 Energi Staff

VICTORIA – The Province of British Columbia says it is establishing the BC Hydrogen Office which is expected to rapidly expand hydrogen deployment and to streamline projects from proposal to construction. According to the Horgan [Read more]

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B.C. launches a stronger climate plan, CleanBC Roadmap to 2030

October 25, 2021 Energi Staff

The Government of British Columbia is launching a stronger, more ambitious climate plan to deliver on its commitment to reduce climate pollution and build a cleaner, stronger economy for people throughout B.C. According to a [Read more]

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BC dormant oil and gas sites clean up gets $50 million boost from Province, Feds

July 8, 2021 Energi Staff

The Government of British Columbia announced on Thursday that it is awarding the second instalment of $50 million provided by the federal government to projects that will clean up dormant oil and gas sites in [Read more]

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Some BC students’ yellow school buses go green

May 10, 2021 Energi Staff

Students in the Sooke School District, located just outside of Victoria, British Columbia, headed to school last week on the province’s inaugural fleet of electric school buses. “By shifting gears from diesel to electric school [Read more]

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Climate change, COVID prompt BC gov’t investment in roadway projects

February 12, 2021 Energi Staff

The government of British Columbia is investing $20.7 million in upgrading the province’s roadways under a plan dubbed the Climate Adaption Program. The program features a number of projects throughout BC that the government says [Read more]

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BC Clean Coast, Clean Waters initiative nets tonnes of marine debris

February 8, 2021 Energi Staff

Last August and September, the first cleanup project under the British Columbia Clean Coast, Clean Waters Initiative resulted in the removal of over 127 tonnes of marine debris from the province’s central coast and Queen [Read more]

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BC charging ahead with electric vehicle fleets supports

February 2, 2021 Energi Staff

CleanBC’s Go Electric programs will offer new rebates and supports for charging infrastructure to British Columbia municipalities and businesses building electric vehicle fleets. “We want to encourage more B.C. businesses, Indigenous Nations, municipalities and regional [Read more]

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Quebec banning sale of gasoline cars in 2035

January 9, 2021 Energi Staff 2

Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Joanna Kyriazis of Clean Energy Canada about Quebec’s decision to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035. They also discuss other jurisdictions like California and the [Read more]

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Should Site C proceed? Only under certain conditions, says new study

January 5, 2021 Energi Staff 2

Rating: Advanced high school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews energy economist Ken Fellows, School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, about the new study, “Energy & Environmental Policy Trends: Is the Site C [Read more]

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Time for BC to pick up the PACE on building retrofits

November 13, 2020 Energi Staff

This article by Pembina Institute was published in The Georgia Strait on Nov. 2, 2020. By Muneesh Sharma and Madi Kennedy With election day in the rear-view mirror, many British Columbians are looking to the [Read more]

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Introducing the “Future Power Series” – expert panel webinars about Canada’s energy future(s).

August 31, 2020 Allen

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New BC regulations target wholesale gasoline market

August 14, 2020 Energi Staff

New regulations targeting the wholesale gasoline market will come into effect in British Columbia on Friday after an independent investigation discovered drivers in the province were being charged almost half a billion dollars in unexplainable [Read more]

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Get serious about EV manufacturing, British Columbia

August 10, 2020 Energi Staff

3 things BC can do: independent agency, a lot more money, policy and regulatory changes The BC government’s decision last month to boost its support for electric vehicles by 400 per cent is a smart [Read more]

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BC’s orphan well clean-up program nearly fully subscribed

May 26, 2020 Energi Staff

The BC government reports its Dormant Sites Reclamation program, a federal government funded project to clean up inactive and orphan wells, received over 1,100 applications and was almost fully subscribed on the first day it [Read more]

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BC second largest exporter of propane behind Alberta

May 21, 2020 Energi Staff

This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on May 20, 2020. The location of propane exports in Canada is changing. Increasingly, more volumes of propane are exported from British Columbia. In January 2020, [Read more]

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Deep retrofit of homes, buildings is the post COVID-19 megaproject Canada needs

May 12, 2020 Energi Staff

By Tom-Pierre Frappé-Sénéclauze This article was published by Pembina Institute on May 8, 2020. As we do our part to flatten the curve on COVID-19, we’re spending much more time in our homes, juggling work with [Read more]

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First Nations should be allowed to offer clean energy to BC ratepayers: SFU group

March 10, 2020 Energi Staff

A research group from Simon Fraser University says BC First Nations should be able to provide clean energy to ratepayers across the province. The Clean Energy Research Group, or CERG, has made a submission to [Read more]

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BC legislation beefs up Fuel Price Transparency Act

March 9, 2020 Energi Staff

The government of British Columbia has brought in new legislation to help implement the province’s Fuel Price Transparency Act. The Fuel Price Transparency Act, or FPTA, “will allow the British Columbia Utilities Commission to collect [Read more]

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Permit granted to advance Fort Nelson geothermal project

January 28, 2020 Energi Staff

The BC government has awarded a permit to advance the Fort Nelson geothermal project which could replace power currently generated from fossil fuels or imported from Alberta. The northern-most town in British Columbia, Fort Nelson [Read more]

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Opinion: What’s missing from B.C.’s climate change legislation

November 19, 2019 Energi Staff

By Karen Tam Wu This article was published by the Globe and Mail on Nov. 14, 2019. Governments across Canada have a habit of making climate promises, setting goals, then failing to achieve them. But [Read more]

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Slow-walking the energy transition a mistake by Alberta oil patch

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Are oil and gas CEOs devious or oblivious? “What happened over the last several years was I think there was a lot of ambition that we could really move the (energy) transition along very fast…And [Read more]

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