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Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff DETROIT, MICH. -- When Donald Trump rallied in the Detroit area, in the final days of his triumphant election campaign, dozens of men and women in [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff DETROIT -- Before the votes had been counted in Michigan, political realignments that will shape the result were evident around the battleground state. One of the [...]

The Inflation Reduction Act has made the U.S. a leader in clean tech, For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to The Decibel on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts [...]

One of the biggest political realignments in the swing state is the Democrats’ growing dominance among college-educated women, and to a lesser extent college-educated men, Before the votes had been counted in Michigan, political realignments that will shape the result were evident around the battleground state. One of the biggest of those, and the biggest [...]

The renewed engagement between the Canadian Growth Fund and Pathways could mark long-awaited progress toward the $16.5-billion shared investment in carbon capture, A federal financing agency has for the first time put forward a specific proposal to back a multibillion-dollar investment in carbon-capture technology by the Pathways Alliance, a group of the [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff Industry is calling on provinces to work together to strengthen Canada's patchwork industrial carbon pricing system by aligning and pooling their carbon-credit markets, in order to [...]

Large emitters say the current approach of each province having its own market makes it more difficult to back major decarbonization projects, Industry is calling on provinces to work together to strengthen Canada’s patchwork industrial carbon pricing system by aligning and pooling their carbon-credit markets, in order to give companies more flexibility [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff As the former head of U.S. President Joe Biden's National Economic Council, Brian Deese was a key architect of the centrepiece of the most ambitious American [...]

Deese weighs in on how much danger the Inflation Reduction Act is really in from Donald Trump and where he sees room for greater partnership with Canada, As the former head of U.S. President Joe Biden’s National Economic Council, Brian Deese was a key architect of the centrepiece of the most ambitious American industrial strategy in generations: [...]

Voters in states such as Georgia will play a crucial role in deciding whether gains from the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act endure, At the epicentre of America’s clean energy revolution, few people are eager to talk about whether the historically ambitious industrial strategy behind it will survive next month’s presidential election. The [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff GEORGIA -- At the epicentre of America's clean energy revolution, few people are eager to talk about whether the historically ambitious industrial strategy behind it will [...]

Davie Shipbuilding CEO James Davies sheds light on why his company made its move into Finland and how the ICE Pact could help advance both its interests and those of the Canadian, U.S. and Finnish governments, A trilateral agreement between Canada, the United States and Finland to build polar icebreakers is taking shape, with a Quebec-based shipbuilding company at its centre. Motivated by mounting concerns that [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff A trilateral agreement between Canada, the United States and Finland to build polar icebreakers is taking shape, with a Quebec-based shipbuilding company at its centre. Motivated [...]

The Canada Infrastructure Bank focuses on building clean power, green infrastructure, public transit and broadband access in Canada, For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to The Decibel on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts [...]

The government is required under the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act to set emissions-reduction commitments for five-year intervals, on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050, A federal panel is calling for Ottawa to commit to cutting Canada’s https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/greenhouse-gas/ between 50 and 55 per cent from 2005 levels by 2035, as the government prepares to announce [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff A federal panel is calling for Ottawa to commit to cutting Canada's greenhouse-gas emissions between 50 and 55 per cent from 2005 levels by 2035, as [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff Please allow the Canada Infrastructure Bank to reintroduce itself. For most of its existence, the $35-billion financing agency has been best known as a symbol of [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff The association representing Canada's power utilities is stepping up its criticism of the federal government's proposed Clean Electricity Regulations, as Ottawa prepares to release a final [...]

Electricity Canada shifts tone with digital ads that allege the regulations will make power less reliable and cause ratepayers’ bills to rise, The association representing Canada’s power utilities is stepping up its criticism of the federal government’s proposed Clean Electricity Regulations, as Ottawa prepares to release a final version of the new [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff QUEBEC CITY -- A sense of nervous anticipation hung in the air, at the Quebec City headquarters of FLO EV Charging Solutions, as its executives awaited [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff CLIMATE POLICY COLUMNIST AND FEATURE WRITER The federal and Ontario governments are facing new complaints that they are not doing enough to ensure that Canadians financially [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff CLIMATE POLICY COLUMNIST AND FEATURE WRITER AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. is predicting a doubling of its nuclear business in the next three years, as the Montreal-based engineering [...]

Byline: LAURA STONE, ADAM RADWANSKI Honda Motor Co.'s $15-billion investment in Ontario's electric-vehicle supply chain will extend into the Niagara region, through a partnership with Japan's Asahi Kasei to build [...]

Honda’s $15-billion announcement is the latest, and biggest, investment in Canada’s burgeoning electric vehicle industry, For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to The Decibel on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pocket Casts [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff A new tax credit in Tuesday's federal budget is fuelling industry speculation that Canada is close to landing a massive electric-vehicle investment by Honda. The proposed [...]

As most everywhere, electricity policy experts recognize that managing electrification in the coming decades will also require managing demand in new ways, Mayor Drew Dilkens was in the midst of an interview about the push to meet the electricity needs of Windsor’s resurgent manufacturing economy when he turned to a large aerial [...]

Cross-partisan group suggest ending zoning restrictions that discourage urban density, avoiding new construction in areas prone to flood and wildfires, and subsidizing prefabrication, A cross-partisan group dedicated to addressing the housing and climate crises in tandem is calling on governments to dramatically change the way homes are built in Canada, including by ending [...]

The basic pitch was that many carbon-capture and other emissions-reducing projects could be unlocked if industry knew that the industrial carbon price would go up as planned, Capital Power Corp. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/CPX-T/ is warning that it may have to shelve plans for one of Canada’s largest carbon-capture projects, at its gas-fuelled Genesee Generating Station in Alberta, as it [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI, CARRIE TAIT The federal government is considering major changes to its plan to reduce carbon emissions from Canada's electricity grid, responding to months of backlash from provinces [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff An energy-efficiency grants program for low-income households has risen to the top of Ottawa's green agenda, as the federal government seeks ways of reducing greenhouse gas [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff A new public-private partnership is testing whether a unique financing approach can kickstart climate-friendly renovations to Canada's mid-sized residential and commercial buildings - one of the [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff ALLISTON, ONT. -- On one side of the industrial parkway sits the sprawling Honda campus that, since the 1980s, has quietly made Ontario's potato-farming capital one [...]

The fund announced Wednesday it has reached a deal with Entropy Inc., a subsidiary of Calgary-based oil and gas company Advantage Energy Ltd., involving an investment tool called a carbon-credit offtake agreement, Ottawa’s new $15-billion cleantech financing agency has inked its first deal to de-risk investment in carbon capture by removing uncertainty around carbon pricing. The Canada Growth Fund announced on Wednesday [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff A new review of Canada's progress in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions has found that the country is getting closer to achieving its international climate commitments - although [...]

New review shows Canada is getting closer to achieving its international climate commitments, but not as quickly as Ottawa’s recent self-assessment suggested, Updated: December 15, 2023 A new review of Canada’s progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions has found that the country is getting closer to achieving its international climate commitments – [...]

One consequential development was the commitment of nearly US$800-million by rich countries to a loss and damages fund for developing countries disproportionately affected by climate change, The agreement reached at the end of the COP28 climate summit has raised the floor, in terms of minimal expectations for reducing global reliance on the fossil fuels overheating the [...]

The willingness to procure any new wind or solar power at all marks a significant shift for Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government, Updated: December 10, 2023 Ontario is ready to take a tentative step back toward wind and solar power, after an ill-fated initial foray led the province to eschew those energy [...]

It is now up to Canada’s fossil-fuel sector to show it is willing and able to extract resources more sustainably than its international competition, Ottawa has forced Canada’s oil and gas producers into a moment of truth, with the long-awaited release of its plan for a cap on the industry’s greenhouse-gas emissions. It’s a [...]

Between its carbon pricing carve-out and clashes with Prairie provinces, the Trudeau government has had a bad year on the climate file. But in Dubai, there’s a chance to turn those missteps into progress, Updated: December 01, 2023 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is limping into https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-cop28-dubai-2023/ the pillars of its climate-change strategy wobbling, as public support turns against it. But that bitter recent [...]

Relief at some green policies coming into place was counterbalanced by disappointment with the federal government over the timeline on others, Ottawa’s shift toward implementing its existing promises of policies to attract low-carbon investment, rather than announcing new ones, is drawing mixed reviews after being laid out in Tuesday’s fall economic [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff A senior U.S. official spent his time in Ottawa this week carting around a printout from the International Energy Association. It was a chart forecasting international [...]

Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources, seized an opportunity to meet with Canadian federal officials and emphasize working together to shape future trade networks, A senior U.S. official spent his time in Ottawa this week carting around a printout from the International Energy Association. It was a chart forecasting international supply chains for clean [...]

New report acknowledges the need for government intervention to overcome obstacles to carbon removal, Updated: November 08, 2023 Emerging technologies to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere are a potential economic boon for Western provinces, and a necessity for Canada to achieve its [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff MONTREAL -- The mysterious $15-billion financing agency at the centre of Ottawa's clean-economy ambitions is ready to step out of the shadows. Since being announced in [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff From inside a former autoparts factory in Owen Sound, a town a couple hundred kilometres northwest of Toronto that's known mainly for its nearby hiking trails, [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff Canada will continue to lag the United States significantly in government incentives for low-carbon sectors that both countries are courting, even after new policies promised in [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff Ottawa is being told to pick up the pace in implementing its promised spending measures to boost low-carbon investment lest Canada fall further behind the United [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI, LAURA STONE Ontario will pay a major share of subsidies for battery factories being built in the province, under a new agreement with the federal government that [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI, LAURA STONE Stellantis NV and LG Energy Solution have reached a new deal with the federal and Ontario governments for as much as $15billion in subsidies for [...]

Byline: ADAM RADWANSKI; Staff The Canadian company at the forefront of the burgeoning lithiumion battery-recycling industry is facing one of its biggest tests - and has a chance to assert [...]