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Pandemic Delays Climate Plan Update as Ottawa Mulls Green Recovery Options
A recent wave of policy advocacy aimed at shaping the Canadian government’s green economic stimulus package is beginning to generate media coverage of its ... -
Swedish Firm Produces World’s First Rolled Steel with Hydrogen
A company in Sweden reported a world first late last month, after replacing liquefied natural gas (LNG) with hydrogen to produce the high-temperature heat ... -
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Week 20, May 18: Green Industry
In 2017 heavy industry produced 73 Mt of CO2e, accounting for 10% of Canada’s emissions, including non-fossil-fuel mining, smelting and refining, and the production ... -
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Renewables Agency Urges $110-Trillion Green Infrastructure Investment to Supercharge Recovery, Boost Resilience
Governments around the world can “supercharge their recovery, become more resilient to crises, and save trillions of dollars,” while setting sights on deep greenhouse ... -
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Explosion at Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plant Damages 60 Homes
A recent, massive explosion at a OneH2 hydrogen fuel cell plant in Long View, North Carolina has left the facility’s 44 employees shaken, but ... -
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CCS, Hydrogen Won’t Be Ready by 2050, UK Academics Warn
Neither carbon capture and storage (CCS) nor the hydrogen economy can scale up fast enough to play a significant part in decarbonizing the UK ... -
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Chetwynd, B.C. ‘Renewable Hydrogen’ Plant Gets $200M Cash Injection from Macquarie
A new C$200-million “renewable hydrogen plant” is about to get off the ground in Chetwynd, British Columbia with a boost from the green energy ... -
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Chu: Renewables at 1.5¢/kWh Could Lead to a ‘Partial Hydrogen Economy’
Scientists should start thinking about what they’ll be able to do with renewable electricity in the near future when its cost falls to 1.5 ... -
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NB Power Invests in Hydrogen Research for Carbon Reduction, Grid Resilience
New Brunswick Power is trying to position itself as the world’s first hydrogen-powered distributed electricity grid after investing C$13 million in what Greentech Media ... -
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Quebec Embraces ‘Zero-Carbon’ Aluminum While Swedish Firm Powers Steelmaking with Hydrogen
Apple, the Canadian government, and the province of Quebec are backing a Rio Tinto-Alcoa joint venture to bring a “revolutionary”, GHG-free aluminum smelting process ... -
Australia Abandons $90-Million ‘Clean’ Coal Adventure, Endorses Coal-to-Hydrogen Scheme
The climate-denying government of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pulled the plug on a six-year, A$90-million-dollar experiment with “clean” coal, reluctantly acknowledging the ... -
Hydrogen: Still the Fuel of Tomorrow?
Often lauded as a potentially clean power source for vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell technology has lagged electric cars in market uptake and consumer enthusiasm, ... -
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GM Produces Hydrogen Pickup Truck for U.S. Army
General Motors is working with the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) to develop a hydrogen fuel cell-powered pickup truck ... -
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Gooey Paste Could Catalyze Cheap Hydrogen Fuel
A smear of green-brown goop developed at the University of Toronto could overcome a critical hurdle in the way of large-scale commercialization of hydrogen ... -
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Toyota Bets on Hydrogen, Promises 90% Emissions Cut by 2050
Toyota Motor Corporation has unveiled ambitious plans to reduce its vehicles’ average greenhouse gas emissions 90% from 2010 levels by 2050 by converting most ...
