Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Jason Rioux, chief development officer with NRStor Inc., about Oneida Energy Storage, his company’s joint project with Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation to build [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Kirby Calvert, project technical lead and co-director of CEKAP (Community Energy Knowledge Action Partnership), about the launch of Quest Canada‘s Free Renewable Energy Planning Resource for municipalities [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews economist Jim Williams of the University of San Francisco about his co-authored paper, Carbon-Neutral Pathways for the United States. Related links: Carbon‐Neutral Pathways for the United States [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on Jan. 27, 2021. Following the annual release of our Canada’s Energy Future 2020: Energy Supply and Demand Projections to 2050 (EF2020), the CER is publishing a series [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews economist Jay Dixon of Statistics Canada about a series of studies “The Employment Consequences of Robots: Firm-level Evidence” and “The Effect of Robots on Firm Performance and [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews economist Werner Antweiler from the Sauder School of Business about how cheap renewables (solar and wind) are poised to begin displacing fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas), [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Bloomberg energy and climate journalist Dr. Akshat Rathi joins Markham to discuss China’s Sept. 23 announcement it will reach peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Thomas Rowlands-Rees of BloombergNEF about US greenhouse gas emissions falling. The primary cause of lower emissions is the switch away from coal (mostly to natural gas) [Read more]
By Mechthild Wörsdörfer and Tom Howes This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Dec. 12, 2020. 2015 was a critical year for climate action Saturday 12 December is a milestone: it is [Read more]
By Bill Sanchez This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 21, 2020. In 2019, U.S. utility-scale electricity generation facilities consumed 38 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) of energy to provide [Read more]
“Economic conservatives” and those with “future hope in oil and gas” most opposed to energy transition in Alberta Alberta is the epicentre of the Canadian crude oil, natural gas, and pipeline industry. Not surprisingly, like [Read more]
The Government of Canada announced earlier in the week that it is developing the Canadian Centre for Energy Information. Calling it a “modern and independent energy information system,” the Trudeau government says the centre will [Read more]
On average, the amount of Halloween candy that Canadians consume around this time of year, translates to about 57,000 gigajoules in energy terms. This is enough energy to heat 570 homes in Canada for one [Read more]
Decline in CO2 emissions in residential, commercial sectors mostly due to milder weather U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2017 fell to 5.14 billion metric tons, 0.9% lower than their 2016 levels, and coal [Read more]
Integricote is currently looking for Canadian, American partner to produce treated pellets Global energy demand is growing as developing nations expand electric service, prompting efforts to find a readily available source of fuel that is [Read more]
Over 98% of Canada’s solar power generation capacity is currently located in Ontario Cities in Saskatchewan have the highest solar potential in Canada, according to new analysis from the National Energy Board. Although all provinces and [Read more]
$10 million to MEG Energy of Calgary to improve bitumen recovery in mining while reducing GHG emissions, water consumption The Government of Canada is contributing $26.34 million towards the development of technologies that lead to less pollution, [Read more]
In 2017, the EU was second largest market for renewables in the world As European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete is tasked with accelerating the deployment of renewable energy in the [Read more]
Nuclear energy produces nearly 1/3 of the world’s emissions-free electricity At the 9th Clean Energy Ministerial(CEM) meeting, a new nuclear innovation partnership was announced under the leadership of the United States, Canada, and Japan, according [Read more]
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources, Kim Rudd (r.) and IRENA Director-General Adnan Z. Amin Currently, 181 countries and the European Union are engaged in IRENA’s work Canada is set to become a [Read more]
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