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Cloe Logan
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News, Climate Solutions Reporting
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June 4th 2024
A new report from Nova Scotia — the province with the highest percentage of people experiencing energy poverty in Canada — suggests urgent solutions to help those struggling to pay their energy bills, while measures in Ontario have made them more affordable for some.
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Ontario's mining industry risks a shortfall of over 3,500 skilled green-collar workers by 2040, unless it jump-starts education and training for the new generation of technicians needed as Canada's critical minerals-hungry electric vehicle sector gears up this decade
Darius Snieckus
News, Business
| June 4th 2024
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Even though a recent Abacus poll confirmed that more than 80 per cent of Ontarians want to see an expanded deposit-return program for non-alcoholic beverage containers in the province, an estimated 1.7 billion containers are still ending up in landfills, incinerators or as litter. Advocates want to change that.
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News, Climate Solutions Reporting
| June 4th 2024
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There are good reasons for Canada to seek changes to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement would make the trade deal more worker- and climate-focused.
Stuart Trew
Opinion
| June 4th 2024
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Half of all new cars are now SUVs, and even though approximately 20 per cent of them are hybrid or electric vehicles, rising emissions from the vehicles have been cited for causing as much as a fifth of the increase in global carbon dioxide emissions.
Damian Carrington
News
| June 4th 2024
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Under the initiative, local governments can apply for up to $1 million to help cover adaptation project costs and up to $70,000 for risk assessments and feasibility studies.
Mia Rabson
News
| June 3rd 2024
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Nova Scotia's Dan Roscoe started as a renewables investor, but now he's at the head of a local company with plans for localized energy generation that he sees as key to the energy transition.
Philip Moscovitch
News, Climate Solutions Reporting
| June 4th 2024
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The Abbot Pass hut stood for decades in a rugged saddle between two iconic peaks, overlooking the limpid turquoise of Banff National Park's Lake Louise — a destination for alpinists from around the world until the ground melted beneath it and forced its closure.
Bob Weber
News
| June 3rd 2024
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News, Climate Solutions Reporting
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