Green

Decreasing water levels on the Great Lakes are impacting some water-based tourist operations and their communities.

It may be the next best thing to having an oil well and refinery in your backyard. For a Sault Ste. Marie scientist-turned-entrepreneur, Dr. Luc Duchesne’s Frankentank Biodiesel System is a technology that’s right for the times.

A new provincial energy rebate program to help Northern Ontario’s struggling forestry industry received mixed reviews from industry stakeholders. Premier Dalton McGuinty chose the hit-hard forestry City of Thunder Bay, Nov.

The idea of establishing regional energy pricing to help struggling Northern Ontario industries survive and be competitive is starting to gain traction at Queen’s Park.

Record low water levels for this season on the Upper Great Lakes are creating concern for commercial shipping lines. Jim Weakley, president of the Lake Carriers Association representing the U.S.

With rising energy costs putting increasingly larger dents in homeowners’ wallets, more and more people are turning to Northern Ontario companies like Innotech Developments International for their home heating solutions.

Rising energy costs have created a trend that is saving hundreds of thousands of dollars for large corporations across Northern Ontario.

With eight hydro-electric dams connected to their paper mill assets in Kenora, Fort Frances and Iroquois Falls, Abitibi Consolidated Inc.

Talk of an east-west power grid for Ontario to import surplus power from Newfoundland and Quebec has a North Bay wind power consultant shaking his head at Queen’s Park.

A provincially imposed 50 megawatt (MW) cap on new electricity generation is stifling wind power opportunities in northeastern Ontario, says a North Bay wind consultant.