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Premier Dalton McGuinty toured the school to see the progress being made on upgrades that will save the school energy and money. The school is getting new energy efficient windows and doors, boilers, heating and cooling systems and a new one-storey addition.
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With an unexpected lack of snow making skiers’ lives miserable at this year’s Olympics, Vancouver is smartly following the trend of going greener than the Olympics before it. Carbon offsets and recycling bins are as old school as a 720 on the snowboard half pipe, so the Canucks had to get a bit more creative to ensure the 2014 games in Russia take place in a world where snow still falls over Sochi in February.
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The 2010 Winter Games will have generated an estimated 118,000 tonnes of carbon emissions by the time the gas-fired Olympic flame leaves Vancouver, and Olympic organizers have selected five British Columbia firms to offset those emissions through new carbon-reducing energy projects to be completed over the next three years.
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VANCOUVER, B.C., Feb. 08 /CSRwire/ – ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: ESR) (the “Company” or “ERA”), is pleased to announce that the private placement previously announced, October 14th 2009, will close on or about February 9th 2010. The private placement consists of 7,360,000 common shares at a price of CAD$0.75 per share for gross proceeds of CAD$5,520,000. The sole subscriber is Forest Carbon Group AG (”FCG”) an affiliate of HEAG Sudhessische Energie AG (”HSE”), a German energy and infrastructure company based in Darmstadt. Post-financing, FCG will own an aggregate of 7,360,000 shares which constitute 29.9% of the issued capital of the Company. No finder’s fee was paid in connection with the private placement.
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When the Vancouver Games commence next Friday, Coca-Cola is aiming for its own gold medal of sorts: its first zero-waste, carbon-neutral Olympics sponsorship. The beverage giant hopes to take sustainable event planning to a new level with drink bottles made from 30 percent plant-based materials, delivered by hybrid cars and electric carts to cafés decked out in furniture that’s made from pine-beetle-salvaged wood.
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MONTREAL — Four years ago, when he helped create the Montreal Climate Exchange, Léon Bitton thought it would be only a short time before the federal government introduced binding cap-and-trade legislation, allowing Montreal to become the centre of environmental finance and emissions trading in Canada.
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – The federal government of Canada officially informed the United Nations over the weekend that it has set a 17 percent reduction in carbon emissions from 2005 levels in the next 10 years. It is Ottawa’s commitment to the Copenhagen deal on climate change.
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Canada has aligned itself with the United States setting a 2020 carbon emissions target of 17 per cent below 2005 levels.
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The B.C. government should strengthen its carbon tax in the 2010 budget, according to a set of recommendations released by the Pembina Institute today.
If adopted, the recommendations will ensure more investment, innovation and job creation in low-carbon businesses, while achieving greater greenhouse gas emissions reductions, says the Institute.
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The Peace River Regional District is taking more steps towards becoming carbon neutral by 2012.
Directors met in Dawson Creek on Thursday, and discussed a Regional Community Energy Partnership. If implemented, the partnership could help PRRD municipalities (and residents) implement carbon-neutral practices.
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Jeffrey Simpson writes that the notion of a carbon tax was killed in the last federal election (Many Albertans Agree: A Carbon Tax Was Best – Jan. 23).
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Patricia Adams’ commentary demonstrates a profound lack of understanding of the carbon offset markets in the world at large and in Canada particularly.
Among many other errors of logic or fact, Ms. Adams condemns carbon trading as a haven for fraud; she misrepresents the checks and balances in place to prevent fraud; she paints all carbon reduction projects as phony Potemkin projects; she implies that CO2 has no value.
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Quebec is expected to receive somewhat more than $8.5-billion in equalization payments next year, up from about $8.3-billion this year. The payments will represent about 11 per cent of the government’s total revenues
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When planning for the Eldorado Hydroelectric Generating Station began, District staff and council immediately recognized its revenue generating potential. Now that it is complete and the money being brought in by it is being used to pay the loans that were taken out to create it, council must decide how the District will spend the money when those debts are gone.
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Victoria has mandated that government is to be carbon neutral.
That means all government services and activities producing carbon emissions have to be offset by some other activity that removes carbon from our atmosphere. It is conducted at all levels. For example, when our MLAs fly to Victoria to conduct the business of the province, their flights and times are logged and it is calculated how much carbon they have produced. A corresponding offset will be purchased, in British Columbia, to ensure the provincial government is carbon neutral.
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