Opinion Leader: With the market and investors onboard, now is the time for investment and policy action to boost clean tech innovation, says Andrew White, CEO of Toronto-based CHAR Technologies.
Topic: reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Opinion Leader: Climate plans will include innovation and technology in Canada’s oil sands
Energy transition does not mean abandoning Canada’s essential oil and gas resources. But it must mean eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions they produce.
Canada warming up to geothermal energy, but still lags other countries
The federal government and private sector are ramping up investment in geothermal energy, but Canada still lags many countries in developing the underground resource.
Alberta investing in innovative high-value, non-combustion uses for oil sands bitumen
Alberta’s investment in innovative high-value, non-combustion uses for oil sands bitumen could yield significant economic and environmental benefits for the province and Canada, say proponents.
B.C. is leading the way in growing Canada’s biogas-renewable natural gas sector, say industry experts
The public and private sectors in British Columbia are leading the rest of Canada with policies and investment to grow the biogas-renewable natural gas sector so it can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help achieve Canada’s climate goals, industry experts say.
Could small modular reactors help to achieve Canada’s net-zero emissions goals?
Proponents say small modular nuclear reactors will be needed for Canada to meet its climate goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. But opponents argue that spending public money on the nuclear technology doesn’t make economic or environmental sense, and they’re calling on the federal government to immediately cease all such investment.
Q&A: Former environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna on COP26 and Canada’s climate plans
Catherine McKenna, former minister of environment and climate change and former minister of infrastructure and communities, spoke to Research Money about the outcomes of the COP26 climate summit, the federal emissions cap on the oil and gas industry, federal investment needed to ensure the country meets its emissions-reduction targets and her two “passions”: climate action and supporting women and girls.
National climate plan needs to focus on foundational public research and transformative Canadian technologies
Canada’s national climate plan needs a complementary approach focused on long-term public research and innovation to develop transformative Canadian technologies, including novel approaches to carbon management, Wilf Keller, Vice-President, Outreach at the Agri-food Innovation Council, says in an op-ed.
Oil and gas innovation network offers $80 million in clean technology competitions
The Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN) is making up to $80 million in federal funding available through oil and gas industry challenges to accelerate the development and commercialization of clean technology.
Opinion Leader: Federal funding for energy efficiency must tackle impact on low-income Canadians
The federal government’s upcoming budget needs to address the problem of “energy poverty” as an urgent priority, Kirsten Pulles, Community Organizer for Efficiency Canada, says in an op-ed. This includes funding low-income energy efficiency programs, making meaningful reductions in energy use, and training and hiring lower-income, rural and racialized Canadians to do the energy efficiency upgrades and outreach work, she says.
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