Green

When you’re in the environmental research business, finding blue-green algae can be a double-edged sword: it’s good for the researchers, but not so good for the people living in the area.

TransCanada Corp. has acquired a trio of solar power facilities from Canadian Solar Solutions Inc. , including two in New Liskeard. The facilities, worth $182 million, are newly completed and generate 10 megawatts each.

The green-tech industry will be descending on Thunder Bay in early September for the Canadian Bioenergy Association’s (CanBio) annual conference. Sept.

True Grit Consulting, a Thunder Bay environmental engineering firm, was recognized by the City of Thunder Bay for the clean and green design of its new corporate headquarters.

With the proliferation of renewable energy projects around the North comes an influx of technical and environmental information that can be difficult to navigate. Graystone Environmental wants to help with that. Based in Sault Ste.

A northwestern Ontario pulp mill will be a test site for a prototype technology designed to extract and separate sugars from wood and improve fibre recoveries.

Dr. Jack Hay believes the next cash crop for Northern Ontario lies not in open fields basking in sunshine, but along the dark forest floor in the decaying, eroded wood of fallen logs.

SUN Co-operative, a Sudbury not-for-profit organization, has made progress over the winter months toward the construction of a $1-million solar farm on Vale-owned mine property.

Thunder Bay -based Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) is providing up to $1.5 million to leverage up to $4 million to increase production capacity at Ensyn Technologies’ Renfrew biofuel plant in eastern Ontario.

Is there more power generation to be had in northwestern Ontario? That’s what the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) wants to know.