Green

Guelph-based Canadian Solar has acquired three solar farms located in Sault Ste. Marie in a deal worth $270 million. The solar farms, which have a total capacity of 59.

The community of Cochrane is hopeful that time is all that’s needed to secure a new energy-generation contract with the province to keep its cogeneration plant up and running.

A Sault Ste. Marie pest management firm received federal funding to search for the next generation of organic tree pesticides.

The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund has earmarked almost $2 million for agricultural infrastructure project in northeastern Ontario.

Kapuskasing Mayor and Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) president Al Spacek reiterated his group’s support for the Energy East Pipeline Project.

Like many businesses in Ontario, hydro rates make up the second highest operating cost, after payroll, for Barrydowne Paint. “Whether times are good, or times are bad, the electricity cost stays the same,” said Barrydowne Paint co-owner Kelly Scott.

Researchers from as far away as Russia and Norway will gather in Sudbury for the Mining and Environment International Conference at Laurentian University, June 20-25.

A farmers’ co-op, greenhouses to accommodate large-scale sustainable crops, an online farmers market: the range of ideas proposed by stakeholders to grow Timmins’ agri-food sector is vast and creative.

Harvesting woody biomass in Northern Ontario for renewable fuels or value-added forest products hasn’t quite reached Scandinavian-type proportions, but some forestry researchers want to “get ahead of the curve” in measuring the environmental impact o

Jamie Draves didn’t set out to become a quinoa producer.