By ADAM RADWANSKI
Liberals mindful that a selloff of municipally owned distribution utilities could be viewed as a fire sale
The Ontario government is considering a significant overhaul of the province’s energy sector, including a selloff of municipally owned distribution utilities and a merger of two provincially owned planning agencies.
The politically sensitive reforms were [...]
The Province released its Two-Year Review Report summarizing the results of its FIT Program review. The Report proposed the following material revisions to the FIT Program.
Commitment to 10,700 MW Original Target - The Long-Term Energy Plan target of procuring 10,700 MW of non-hydro renewable energy generation by 2015 will be maintained. At the end of 2013, [...]
In view of a record 7.5 gigawatts of new solar installations in 2011, the government has decided to cut subsidies for solar power earlier than expected. Environmentalists say this will end a German “success story.”
After months of wrangling, Germany’s liberal economics minister Philipp Rösler and conservative environment minister Norbert Röttgen thrashed out a compromise [...]
Calgary, Alberta, January 25, 2012 – The Harper Government is showing its commitment to a green Canadian economy with a $22 million investment to help eight new clean technology projects from across the country reach commercialization. The announcement was made today by the Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, and Vicky Sharpe, President [...]
Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post · Jan. 7, 2012 | Last Updated: Jan. 7, 2012 5:31 AM ET
In a remote Aboriginal recreation centre on the shore of the Douglas Channel in British Columbia’s North Coast, Canadian regulators are kicking off historic hearings on Tuesday on the proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline. By the time they [...]
Pilita Clark, Financial Times, December 14, 2011
It is being called the huddle that made history. Even by the standards of UN climate talks, where delegates have been known to leap on tables, fling insults or dissolve publicly into tears, what happened on the conference floor of the Durban convention centre in the small hours of [...]
