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Solar power is playing an important part in Canada’s transition away from fossil fuels — but it still faces hurdles in becoming truly sustainable.
Even as proponents tout renewable energy, there's a noticeable silence on what to do with solar panels once they've reached end of life, Leigh Matthews reports.
Where do dead solar panels go, and what is Canada doing, if anything, to plan for the tsunami of e-waste to come?
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Leigh Matthews
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News, Business, Energy
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November 27th 2020
Where do all these dead solar panels go, and what is Canada doing, if anything, to plan for the tsunami of e-waste to come?
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Priority groups in Canada should start receiving COVID-19 vaccine doses early next year, a top public health official said Thursday, as new restrictions for those entering New Brunswick effectively popped the so-called Atlantic bubble.
Lauren Krugel
News
| November 26th 2020
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The head of a Canadian biotech industry association says Canada can and does make vaccines — just not the ones expected first to help stop the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mia Rabson
News
| November 26th 2020
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One oilpatch CEO argues any government investment in capturing carbon dioxide is misguided because it ignores another greenhouse gas, methane, that is a more potent atmospheric heat-trapper over a shorter period and has been proven to be a bigger problem for the industry than previously thought.
Carl Meyer
News, Energy, Politics, Ottawa Insider
| November 27th 2020
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Bio-based plastics, most of them compostable to some degree, are proliferating across Canada. Yet millions of compostable cups, containers and bags will probably still end up in landfills. It’s a crisis driven, in part, by bad communication.
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News, Food Insider
| November 27th 2020
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The federal government has announced more than $50 million for research into marine and freshwater ecosystems across Canada.
Bob Weber
News, Politics
| November 26th 2020
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From the archives
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Emilee Gilpin
News, Energy, Politics
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