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Grasshopper Solar Breaks Ground in Sudbury, ON - MarketWatch (www.marketwatch.com)Grasshopper Solar will be breaking ground in Copper Cliff this week to install the first ground-mounted solar power system in the area. "Sudbury is going to play a big part in the future of solar installations where families and businesses have the excess land to deploy such systems".
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Spotted: solar-powered lights on campus | Lambda (lambdanews.wordpress.com)In addition, it seems this new light has a solar panel. I am so excited to see that Laurentian is taking steps to not only improve safety and security on campus, but also to do so in a ‘green’, eco-friendly way.
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Sustainable Energy Centre under construction - (www.thesudburystar.com)Construction is underway at Cambrian College on the multimillion Xstrata Nickel Sustainable Energy Centre that will put the college at the forefront of educational opportunities for students and research for industry, college president Sylvia Barnard during ground breaking ceremonies Thursday.
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Region could see more locally generated electricity - (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)Rick Roberts, of CanTech Construction, is the principle in two local electricity generating projects, Lizard Creek Power and Pecors Power.
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5.$2,000-per-unit building levy irks wind turbine critics in NE Town (www.manitoulin.ca)
-The Northeast Town will receive $66,000 in building permit fees from the Northland Power wind turbine project, but critics suggest the number is too low and the town should generate more revenue from the project.
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6.Temiskaming Shores to see $300M in solar infrastructure (www.northernontariobusiness.com)
The City of Temiskaming Shores has announced its entry into the green energy business with a partnership with Kitchener-based Canadian Solar Solutions Inc. to build 30 megawatts-worth of solar projects, totalling $150 million.
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Beyond Zero Emissions (beyondzeroemissions.org)Our goal is to facilitate the implementation of the social changes and technologies that will reduce the impacts of climate change and give our society and global ecosystems a chance of surviving into the future.
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video Verticle windpower turbine a Tech & Science video (www.dailymotion.com)Another alternative to propeller based wind turbines
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Surface area require to power the world with solar (pulse2.com)Nice graphic
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Sault Solar farm program manager setting up shop (www.saultthisweek.com)Don't expect to see any large solar panels rolling into Sault Ste. Marie on transports this spring when construction is expected to begin on the first 20 megawatt phase of a proposed 60 megawatt solar farm.Marc van Gerven, chief marketing and sales officer with Q-Cells North America, said the actual photovoltaic solar panels to be used in the project are roughly one metre by two metres in size.
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11.Silos could heat city - (www.thesudburystar.com)
Greater Sudbury city council will consider turning the iconic, long-ignored Flour Mill silos into a district heating facility.At its regular meeting Wednesday, council will entertain a proposal pitched by the Greater Sudbury Development Corp. to convert the silos into storage tanks, pumping heat energy into area homes and businesses where it will be extracted by heat pumps.
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Winds of change in Ontario Green energy (network.nationalpost.com)In a signing ceremony Thursday for a $7-billion deal with Samsung to build wind and solar facilities, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said: “This means Ontario is officially the place to be for green energy manufacturing in North America.”
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Blind River chases sun, profits with solar power plant (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)There is profit to be made if a $50-million solar-power project can ever see the light of day.Slated for Blind River's large industrial park, is a proposed 258-solar array site. It would be capable of producing 10.4 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power about 1,800 homes.
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Solar project in the Sault to get go-ahead (www.thesudburystar.com)The project will include a first-phase 20-megawatt facility valued at about $100 million that could be built on more than one site.Half of that development will include the cost of purchasing the solar panels; the other half construction costs.
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Blind River pursues solar power plant (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)Slated for Blind River's large industrial park, a 168 solar-panel array will be able to produce 10.4 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power about 16,000 homes.
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Temiskaming Crops Coalition (temiskamingcc.blogspot.com)Temiskaming Crops Coalition promotes the progressive profitable production of crops for the region of Temiskaming.
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Heated debate in N.S. over proposal to harvest trees and burn wood for energy (www.canadaeast.com)A debate is brewing between the Nova Scotia government, focus groups and environmentalists over the sustainability of harvesting trees and burning low-grade wood to meet the province's energy needs
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Study measures effects of wind turbines (www.thebarrieexaminer.com)This week, an industry-funded review concluded that the sound coming from wind turbines is not harming the public's health. Dr. David Colby, Chatham-Kent's acting medical officer of health, was one of seven members of a "five star, internationally known" panel that reviewed "substantial" existing scientific literature on wind turbine sound and possible health effects for the Canadian and American wind energy associations.
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19.Solar farm proponents still looking for land to buy/lease - Sault This Week - Ontario, CA (www.saultthisweek.com)
Proponents of a 60 megawatt solar farm in Sault Ste. Marie have held talks with the Sault Airport Development Corporation about leasing property for the second phase of their project.
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People in Sudbury, Ont., are heating their homes with recycled cans from Newfoundland and Labrador.A Sudbury company is selling a solar energy system that's manufactured in Dildo, Newfoundland, about 100 kilometres west of St. John's.
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Biomass conference proceedings at Nipissing Univeristy (www.biomassinnovation.ca)Steve Morrison, Sturgeon Falls Brush & Contracting "Harvesting and Transformation: Opportunities and Challenges"/Chris Young, Ontario Power Generation“Status report on the use of biomass for energy”/Ambrose Raftis, Green Timiskaming Development Corporation“A community model for optimizing Ontario’s Green Energy Act”/Dr. John Nadeau, Nipissing University“What clients are telling us”
Brian Bertrand, Evans Bertrand Hill Wheeler Architects Inc.“Biomass from an architectural perspective”/Lawrence Burndrett, Pressure Vessel Engineering
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Northern Ontario: The Saudi of BioMass! (www.northernontariobusiness.com)Northeastern Ontario is being billed as the 'Saudi Arabia of biomass' and delegates who attended a North Bay conference heard of the opportunities and challenges to heat and power the region with this green crude
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Possible energy project at North Bay sewage plant (www.600ckat.com)The city's Manager of Environmental Services Peter Bullock says there's a proposal on the council table about creating energy at the sewage treatment plant
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Zephyr North Limited - A Wind Energy Resource Assessment Company (www.zephyrnorth.com)Zephyr North is Canada's oldest and most experienced wind resource assessment consultant
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Homeowners describe nightmare of Ontario Hydro red tape (ca.news.yahoo.com)It was all supposed to be so simple. But two years and $65,000 later, Peter and Mary Solotorow have found the road to green living barred by red tape."We just figured going green was the thing to do," Mary says over coffee and home-made butter tarts."But it's not going green. Not the way we thought."
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