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Category: Energy and the Environment
Happening: Novo Plastics sets up plant in India as part of Wynne trade trip
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Cap-and-trade concerns on industry’s mind during pre-budget consultations
Representatives from the natural gas, steelmaking and paper industries have voiced their concerns about the coming cap-and-trade system to the province's finance committee. ...
Hawthorne to retire this year as CEO of Bruce Power
President and CEO Duncan Hawthorne is retiring this year after 15 years at the helm of Bruce Power, the world's biggest nuclear power producer, which generates nearly a third of Ontario's electricity. ...
Hydro One in $373-million deal for Great Lakes power business
The first major acquisition for Hydro One since its $1.83-billion IPO means the utility will operate 98 per cent of Ontario's transmission capacity. ...
Ontario on board with Ottawa’s new pipeline review measures
Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli says new transition measures to help judge major resource projects “will help to repair changes made by the previous federal government." ...
Province looking at Sarnia-area emissions to assist with petroleum refinery standards
The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change has put out a tender seeking "Emissions Monitoring in and around Sarnia, Ontario Using Solar Occultation Flux." ...
OMERS unit buys stake in Spanish oil refiner
A first investment in Spain that adds to its European infrastructure portfolio in Britain, Germany, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic. ...
Bruce Power begins early life extension work for nuclear rebuild
Private-sector consortium launched an inspection and maintenance program this month as part of a massive refurbishment effort of the facility along Lake Huron. ...
Heard: Hydro Ottawa joins North American utilities group
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