A message from BC Hydro’s Greg Reimer: The BC Information and Privacy Commissioner has announced a review of the security and privacy of customer data collection through the smart meter program. As we take the responsibility of protecting the privacy and security of personal information very seriously, we’ve made it a top priority of the […]

Today Nissan Canada made history when it delivered the first all-electric Nissan LEAF in Canada, signaling the arrival of sustainable mobility to the Canadian mass market. PowerStream, the second largest municipally-owned electricity distribution company in Ontario, received keys to its two white Nissan LEAFs MY11, at an event at its head office in Vaughan, Ontario. […]

The launch of a new online database will make it easier for British Columbians to keep track of the people, businesses and industries running afoul of B.C.’s environmental rules. The free database includes a wide variety of compliance and enforcement actions taken by ministry staff and enforcement officers. It includes orders, administrative sanctions, tickets and […]

A new study just published in Nature Geoscience indicates the depth of the fault between the two tectonic plates forming the Earth’s surface in the Pacific Northwest is seven kilometres deeper than previously proposed. Simon Fraser University earth scientist Andy Calvert, the study’s lead author, says he and his colleagues aren’t sure what to make of […]

By Robert Engelman, Worldwatch Institute Demographers aren’t known for their sense of humor, but the ones who work for the United Nations recently announced that the world’s human population will hit seven billion on Halloween this year. Since censuses and other surveys can scarcely justify such a precise calculation, it’s tempting to imagine that the […]

By Kieran Mulvaney, Discovery News The trawler’s crew could scarcely believe their eyes. They had seen icebergs before as they fished off the coast of Labrador, but never anything quite like this, what was described as “a dazzling white ice island five kilometres long and alive with mountains, valleys, brooks, waterfalls, ponds and seals.” A […]

By Andy Soos, ENN Energy Star is an international standard for energy efficient consumer products originated in the United States of America. It was first created as a United States government program during the early 1990s, but Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and the European Union have also adopted the program. Devices carrying the […]

Members of the international group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (best known as PETA) are calling on Mayor Brian Taylor to halt the plan for culling urban deer herds in Grand Forks.   The email campaign has swamped Grand Forks Mayor Brian Taylor whose council approved an urban deer management plan only weeks […]

By Michael Jessen A life without lights and a house without heat; that’s the definition of extreme energy poverty. While it might be common to think of energy or fuel poverty as a problem in developing countries, it exists in some shape in our communities. It is a big issue in African and Asian countries […]

A recent report detailing the geothermal energy resource potential in Canada confirms that “geothermal energy, as a renewable energy source, not only provides a clean and renewable option for electricity generation around the clock, but also efficient and competitive heating options for Canadians all over Canada.” Alexander Richter, director of the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association, […]