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EllisDon completes first pour with graphene-enhanced concrete

Daily Commercial News — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:05:01 +0000

OTTAWA — EllisDon is reporting it recently completed its first test concrete pour with Bio Graphene Solutions (BGS) and Tomlinson. The test consisted of a sidewalk pour at one of its projects in Ottawa. According to a release, in 2023, BGS developed a graphene-enhanced admixture for commercial concrete uses that tackled CO2 emissions by reducing […]

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Alberta Energy Regulator lacks evidence for tailings spill cleanup claims: study

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:00:17 +0000

EDMONTON — A new analysis of a decade’s worth of data kept by Alberta’s oil and gas regulator suggests the agency has made unsubstantiated claims about the success of oilsands tailings spills cleanup. “Their own data, their…internal data are not being reflected in the…information that they’re releasing to the public,” the study’s author, Alberta-based ecologist […]

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Alberta to send water bombers, helicopters to help fight Los Angeles wildfire

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:57:52 +0000

EDMONTON — Alberta is preparing to send water bombers, night-vision helicopters and incident command team support to help battle wildfires ravaging parts of Los Angeles. Premier Danielle Smith says on X that neighbours are always there for each other in times of need and the province will assist its American friends in this crisis. Water-bombing […]

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‘On the front line’: Quebec planes and B.C. helicopters battle L.A. wildfires

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:46:59 +0000

MONTREAL — Water-bombing pilots and crews from Quebec and a British Columbia company have been grappling with high winds and heavy turbulence in the battle against massive Los Angeles wildfires, as Canadians with homes in the area are forced to flee fast-moving flames. Pascal Duclos, head pilot for the Quebec government’s aerial service, said he […]

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Alberta announces new effort to expand oil and gas pipeline capacity with Enbridge

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:04:32 +0000

CALGARY, ALTA. — The Alberta government is partnering with Calgary-based pipeline company Enbridge Inc. to increase the province’s oil and gas pipeline capacity. The agreement is to begin with a new formal working group between Enbridge and the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission, a Crown corporation. Premier Danielle Smith says they will focus on streamlining regulations […]

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RESCON’s legal challenge against TGS causes outpouring of reaction

Daily Commercial News — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:10:29 +0000

The decision by RESCON announced in December to file an application in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice challenging the authority of the City of Toronto and its Green Standards is a shot across the bow few industry observers foresaw. RESCON president Richard Lyall feels there was no alternative except to adopt a highly adversarial […]

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2024 was Vancouver’s wettest year so far this century: Environment Canada data

Daily Commercial News — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:20:54 +0000

VANCOUVER — Vancouver lived up to its soggy reputation last year, with Environment Canada data showing 2024 was the city’s wettest year so far this century. Meteorologist Chris Doyle said data showed more than 1,367 millimetres of precipitation at Vancouver International Airport last year. The drenching was boosted by a series of atmospheric river events […]

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How net-zero emissions are being achieved in cement, concrete industries

Daily Commercial News — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:00:48 +0000

After providing a synopsis of global, national, provincial and municipal initiatives to address climate change, a speaker at a Buildings Show Toronto session zeroed-in on the how the cement and construction industries are taking action to lower their emissions. The audience at the Achieving Net-Zero Emissions in the Cement and Concrete Industry seminar was given […]

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Ontario First Nation challenging selection of underground nuclear waste site in court

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:48:05 +0000

TORONTO — A First Nation in northern Ontario is challenging the selection of a nearby region as the site of an underground repository that will hold Canada’s nuclear waste, arguing in a court filing that it should have had a say in the matter as the site falls “squarely” within its territory. Eagle Lake First […]

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Five ways to improve Canada’s industrial carbon markets: CAC, groups

Daily Commercial News — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:27:38 +0000

The Cement Association of Canada (CAC), along with 12 other leading firms, business associations and climate policy and renewable energy groups across the country from the energy, manufacturing and steel sectors, is proposing five ways to improve the country’s industrial carbon markets. The groups contend industrial carbon pricing is the best way to get industry […]

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Former B.C. premier Glen Clark has been appointed as the new BC Hydro chair

Daily Commercial News — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:38:22 +0000

VICTORIA — Former B.C. premier Glen Clark is returning to the public eye, two years after leaving his high-profile position as president of Jim Pattison Group. The provincial government has announced that Clark has been appointed to chair BC Hydro’s board of directors, taking over for Lori Wanamaker, whose term ends on Dec. 31. Clark […]

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Canadian carbon removal company scores US$40M grant from fund backed by Bill Gates

Daily Commercial News — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:20:01 +0000

CALGARY, ALTA. — A Montreal-based company building a Canadian test site for carbon removal technologies has received a US$40-million grant from Bill Gates’ climate solutions venture firm. Canadian startup Deep Sky announced it was awarded the grant from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst to help build what it calls its Deep Sky Alpha project in Alberta. The […]

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