REGINA – On April 19, federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault announced a new “social cost of carbon” which would be $247 a tonne for CO2 equivalent. He called it “a new tool that the federal government is going to use in the fight...
First, the federal Liberal government said the carbon tax was going to be $50 per tonne for CO2 equivalent (CO2e). Then it implemented an escalator to increase that carbon tax to $170 per tonne by 2030, going up each year $15 per tonne CO2e, starting a few weeks ago...
By Mia Rabson in Ottawa The economic cost of greenhouse gas emissions is nearly five times higher than previously thought, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday. The minister told attendees at a climate change conference in Ottawa that the...
By Michael Tutton in Halifax Environmental researcher John Kearney says the whirring blades of a proposed 13-turbine wind farm in Nova Scotia may cut greenhouse gases, but the risks they pose to migrating birds are too high. The 74-year-old former consultant to the...
By Amanda Stephenson in Calgary Canada’s largest natural gas producer is partnering with a California-based clean energy company to build and operate a network of compressed natural gas (CNG) fuelling stations to help heavy-haul trucks get off diesel....
Editor’s note: the GE Hitachi BWRX-300 is the same small modular reactor that SaskPower has chosen to build here, starting in the 2030s. Poland is planning to build many times the 4 reactors Saskatchewan is considering. By Monika Scislowska in Warsaw...
