Tag: energy
Tla’amin Assessing Water, Fish Ahead of Hydroelectric Development
The Tla’amin Nation in British Columbia has received funding from the B.C. First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund (FNCEBF) to conduct a feasibility study...
Water Cooling a Campus
The University of Guelph has built thermal energy storage facility that uses cooled water to deliver air conditioning throughout its facilities.
GE’s Demonstrates that Energy-Neutral Wastewater is a Reality
A majority of the municipal wastewater treatment facilities that are in operation today were built before “going green” was a thing. Back then, treatment...
Charges Laid in Alberta Oil Spill
Plains Midstream, the owner of a pipeline that leaked nearly half a million litres of oil into Red Deer River in 2012, is facing...
Savings at the Pump
In a recent University of Toronto publication discussing the water-energy nexus, Bryan W. Karney writes: “…if you are thinking about big challenges, and big...
Good Vibrations
Crumbling asets. Rusting pipes. Leaking watermains. Musings about the state of our civil infrastructure usually come around to this type of talk. It may...
Cenovus Invests $2.5M in Saltworks
Cenovus Energy Inc., the Calgary-based integrated oil company, is investing $2.5 million in Vancouver's Saltworks Technologies Inc. through its Environmental Opportunity Fund (EOF),...
Wasted Energy
Across the country, provinces are updating Building Code standards—or implementing policies that would allow provincial ministries to change standards. Canada’s new building code, coming...
Report Looks at Water-Energy Link
The POLIS Water Sustainability Project has released a new research report that looks at the link between water and energy use. The report, entitled...
SDTC Funds Low-Energy Desal Project
A project led by Vancouver-based Saltworks Technologies Inc. to develop a low-energy water desalination system that has the potential to greatly improve the affordability...
