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Volvo’s Mack Trucks Inc. plans to have a fully electric garbage truck in 2019

April 25, 2018 Energi Staff 2

Electric garbage truck’s ability to operate quietly at night is particularly attractive to customers in urban areas Mack Trucks, a part of Volvo Group, plans to have a fully electric Mack LR refuse model equipped [Read more]

Great Pacific Garbage Patch growing rapidly, study shows

March 23, 2018 Energi Staff 2

New figures are four to sixteen times higher than previous estimates 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing 80,000 metric tons are currently afloat in an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – and it [Read more]

In the Spotlight

Smith’s panel on Alberta’s energy future is a bad joke

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

“A new advisory panel will develop a long-term vision for Alberta’s energy future and recommend steps the province should take to ensure the industry [emphasis added] continues to thrive for decades to come.” Premier Danielle [Read more]