Green

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.

The jury is still out on a bio-fuel trial to determine if two types of grass can be mixed in with wood waste to fuel Abitibi-Bowater's new biomass boiler in Fort Frances.

A Toronto-based manufacturer of peat fuel wants more transparency from the Ontario Power Generation (OPG) on its plan to replace coal with wood biomass fuel at its generating plants.

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.

The uncertainty over Ontario's fledgling biomass economy has a northeastern Ontario community dropping a biomass energy project and switching to solar.

The Pic River First Nation have acquired full ownership of the Twin Falls hydro-electric plant near the Lake Superior Ojibway community.

Ontario Premier Dallton McGuinty was in Sault Ste. Marie July 17 to announce the official opening of Essar Steel Algoma's new $135-million co-generation facility, which will reduce the mill's emissions and power use.

Ellsin Environmental Ltd. will establish the plant to test a patented process for reclaiming used tires after a $2 million investment by the province's Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation.

Nowadays, it seems like there are easy green options for just about everything. There are environmentally friendly, soaps, cars, toilets, bags and jewellery products readily available to the average consumer.

The ‘Greenest city in Europe’ is not some sun-soaked southern village covered in solar panels, nor a windy costal town surrounded by a forest of wind turbines, but rather the city of Växjö, nestled in the forests of Central Sweden.