Environment
$3M in federal funding to cut plastic food, construction waste
Three companies winners of the government’s plastics innovation challenge, part of a plan to ban many single-use plastics by 2021.
BP lays out long term ambition to achieve net zero emissions
BP’s announcement was less of a detailed restructuring plan and more of a statement of intent
Climate change could open new land to farming, but caution needed: study
The big winners would be Canada and Russia, which could each see more than four million square kilometres of boreal forest become arable land
Feds invest $3.5M in green mining in Sudbury, Ont.
Receiving funds are a manufacturer of electric drive systems and an organization developing heat exchange technology
Feds host conference on fishing tech to protect whales, prevent ocean plastics
A major contributor to plastic waste in oceans is lost and abandoned fishing gear, also known as ghost gear, which can entangle whales
Factory farms provide abundant food, but environment suffers
U.S. environmental agencies often lack basic information about large farms such as where they’re located, how many animals they’re raising and how they deal with manure
Arrests made as anti-pipeline protesters block Vancouver ports, defy injunction
Premier John Horgan has said the Coastal GasLink pipeline is of vital economic and social importance to the province’s north
Ontario Power Generation seeks new site to bury nuclear waste
Saugeen Ojibway Nation voted overwhelmingly last week to reject underground chamber plan
Quebec premier says returns will fly high with $30M airship investment
French firm Flying Whales would transport heavy cargo to the province’s far north by 2022-23
Hellmann’s Canada commits to using 100% recycled plastic
The initiative is projected to save one million kilograms of virgin plastic this year
