Cleantech
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Recent storm ‘most damaging’ in BC Hydro history but response to improve: report
More than 400,000 BC Hydro customers on the Lower Mainland, and nearly 350,000 customers on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands were in the dark, following the Dec. 20 storm
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Tesla delivers record number of vehicles, cuts prices $2,000
Tesla says it’s cutting prices of its three vehicles by $2,000 to help customers handle the gradual phase-out of federal electric vehicle tax credits
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Conservative leader says Trudeau will hike carbon tax if he wins vote in 2019
The federal government’s new carbon pricing system comes into effect in 2019 in provinces that don’t have carbon pricing mechanisms. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer plans to nix it
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More rallies held to support pipelines; speaker says convoy coming to Ottawa
Recent rallies and truck convoys were held across Alberta and Saskatchewan to protest against federal actions that critics say will make building pipelines more difficult
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Statistics Canada says country’s economy grew 0.3% in October
The improvement followed a contraction of 0.1 per cent in September
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B.C. cities join global movement asking oil companies for climate change costs
Victoria, B.C., is among the cities rallying for oil companies to chip in to cover growing bills in proportion to their emissions
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New natural gas producer members back $3M gas clean tech program
The upstream fund is designed to help develop clean technology using Canadian natural gas
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Wilderness Committee preparing new legal challenge to stop pipeline
The NEB’s original review concluded that there would be negative impacts on marine life. Since marine impacts were outside of the board’s jurisdiction, it had no effect on approving the project
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Groups preparing new pipeline legal challenge, argue government’s mind made up
The Wilderness Committee returned its participant funding to the NEB, citing there isn’t enough time to review the marine impacts of the proposed expansion
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Talks adopt ‘rulebook’ to put Paris climate deal into action
Officials at the talks in the Polish city of Katowice agreed to universal rules on how nations can cut emissions
