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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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Dutch Designed Advertising Campaign for Wind Power (www.zeekracht.nl)Windenergie op de Noordzee kan op den duur net zoveel energie leveren als de olie in de Perzische Golf nu. De Noordzee kan de duurzame accu van Europa worden. Dat blijkt uit het Masterplan Zeekracht van het Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), het wereldberoemde architectenbureau van Rem Koolhaas
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Cambrian College Living Building 2nd Annual Tradeshow (www.thesudburystar.com)Northern Ontario homeowners stand to benefit a lot from the introduction of solar panel technology to help supplement home and hot-water heating, says the president of an Aurora company, which sells solar panel products and systems.
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The Justin Street resident spent $20,000 reconstructing his roof this year while investing $80,000 in solar energy panels and a grid-tie" system.Draves installed panels capable of producing 10 kilowatts per hour, the peak generation that can happen for several hours in the afternoon under ideal conditions.
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Peat fuel producer faces uphill battle to join province' s biomass program (www.northernontariobusiness.com)With 30,000 ha under permit in northwestern Ontario, Telford wants to harvest and produce peat pellets from bogs in Upsala where his proposed operation would create as many as 200 jobs.
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Solar Flower Power Tower (www.metaefficient.com)Unlike other solar towers around the world, which are primarily utilitarian towers made of grey galvanized steel, this tower is shaped and colored like a flower. The low cost solar tower is made of recyclable materials, mainly pre-fabricated curved steel sheets, which can be easily assembled and erected in just two days
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Sudbury Residents review new wind turbine proposal (www.thesudburystar.com)Rick Gagnon, president of Canadian Shield Wind Power, said the company is working on satisfying requirements set out by the Ministry of the Environment for the proposed pilot project. Once the Green Energy Act passes, the company will apply for a contract from the Ontario Power Authority."We are hopeful to install the two machines in the third or fourth quarter of 2010," Gagnon said.
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Mining the renewable energy market | Sudbury mining staff turn to green energy business (www.northernontariobusiness.com)Young Sudbury entrepreneur Brad Wright has tied a green lining around the cloud of layoffs at Vale Inco, transforming his focus from mining to renewable energy through 3e Solutions, his new company.
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Manitoulin Farmers hope for windfall (www.thesudburystar.com)The Wilkins are two of 14 landowners who have signed leases with the company. Northland is in the process of securing the necessary approvals to build the 43-turbine, 77-megawatt project on McLean's Mountain near Little Current. The turbines, which each have the capacity to produce 1.8 megawatts each, could power about 20,000 homes.The company's environmental screening report is in the final stages of the public comment period. Upon securing the required approvals and permits, the company is hoping to start building roads in 2010 and putting up turbines in 2011.
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scn America Inc. (www.scn-america.com)scn energy America Inc. is cooperating with Green Sun Rising Inc., which is providing solutions for heat energy from the sun, solar thermal.Do you need solar PV solutions? Please let us assist you in your solar needs.
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Looking for Solar Partners in Sudbury (www.GreenSunRising.com.)we are looking for solar partners in the Sudbury area. A Windsor based solar company, we have both solar thermal and solar PV technologies, and need local partners who we train, and who become local installers.
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Wind power firm holding Sudbury turbine talks (www.northernontariobusiness.com)A small local company is hoping to build two 1.65-megawatt wind turbines on land leased from Inco.The company, Canadian Shield Wind Power, is in the process of doing the required environmental screening and securing the necessary approvals to erect the turbines. photo by: vax-o-matic
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Thunder Bay Confederation College and Honeywell team up on campus biomass plant (www.northernontariobusiness.com)Thunder Bay's Confederation College is taking their partnership with global energy experts Honeywell to another level with plans for a biomass wood-fire boiler.
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Sault Research Turning Grass Into Fuel (www.soonews.ca)In addition to planning the next phase of the study, Zimmerman and Wilson have been busy demonstrating how well reed canary grass pellets work to various community organizations. LSSU's Board of Trustees, local conservation groups, and visitors to the Sault Ste. Marie Farmers' Market are just some of the area residents who have seen how these pellets work in a multi-fuel stove.
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New geothermal technology could cut energy costs (www.northernlife.ca)A new local company, Renewable Resource Recovery Corporation (RRRC), has a patent pending on a type of sewer pipe that is designed to capture thermal energy from fluids in wastewater piping. They have partnered with Rainbow Concrete Industries.They are the first licencee to manufacture the piping. The technology uses what is known as geothermal principles to extract heat from under the ground, where temperatures tend to be constant at given depths.
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North Bay petitions province over landfill regulations (www.600ckat.com)Councillor Mac Bain explains it's the environmentally correct thing to do - to capture and collect the methane, instead of releasing it into the air, but says it doesn't make sense for the city to spend 100 thousand dollars to capture methane - if the city won't see one dime in revenue.
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SOLAR HOT WATER (www.thewhig.com)While many people think solar water heating is new, in fact it's far from it. The Romans created roof mounted containers for heating water. Over 100 years ago an American by the name of Clarence Kemp patented the first solar water heater and sold it for the ridiculous price of $25.00photo by: geocam2000
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Canada green power stocks fall on surprise ruling (ca.news.yahoo.com)Late on Monday the British Columbia Utilities Commission, which regulates BC Hydro, unexpectedly rejected the power utility's long-term business plan, which includes its proposal to buy clean electricity from small, independent producers.
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Boralex, Gaz Metro get green light for wind farm (www.theglobeandmail.com)The Quebec government has given its environmental approval to a consortium of Boralex Inc. and Gaz Metro to build a large wind farm in the Seigneurie de Beaupre.photo by: fieldsbh
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3e Solutions - local renewable energy (www.3esolutions.ca)The steps for a 3e Solution to your renewable energy needs are listed below:
Initial Meeting to Discuss Options * Selection of Option
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Making way for Wasauksing wind farm in Parry Sound (www.parrysound.com)Wasauksing First Nation has moved a few steps closer to building a wind farm.The First Nation and its wind energy partners have collected wind data, started environmental studies and are now selecting suitable land and designing the proposed wind farm
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The other kind of solar power (www.economist.com)Energy: Think of solar power, and you probably think of photovoltaic panels. But there is another way to make electricity from sunlight, which arguably has even brighter prospects
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