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Ontario government signals offshore wind moratorium will continue for years

The province continues to blame a lack of data for its offshore turbine ban, but according to a NAFTA tribunal, Ontario has done "little to address the scientific uncertainty surrounding offshore wind"


Researchers develop new flow battery designed to outlast lithium

The non-corrosive battery uses organic molecules dissolved in neutral-pH water to store energy. It can cycle more than 1,000 times and lose only about one per cent of its charge


Evacuees return home after California dam scare, but storms will put repairs to the test

200,000 were told to flee earlier this week as engineers warned a spillway at the U.S.'s tallest dam and one of its largest hydro sites could fail; they are now returning home, but if the fixes don't hold, another mass evacuation could follow


Transformer damaged, turbines shut down after shots fired at Alta. wind farm

TransAlta staff discovered bullet holes in a transformer at its McBride Lake wind farm south of Calgary when responding to a remote alert last week; the RCMP are investigating and say the shots were possibly fired from a nearby road
 
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Cleaning robot pulled from Fukushima reactor due to radiation

The remote-controlled cleaner was the first robot to enter the nuclear plant's Unit 2 reactor since the 2011 disaster. It spent just two hours inside before being yanked out » read more

Canadian robotics firm Clearpath gets foot-in-the-door at U.S. Toyota plant

One of the company's Otto 1500 self-driving vehicles is taking over tire delivery at a Mississippi Corolla assembly plant » read more
 
Last week’s big stories 
 

U.S. scraps methane emissions rules, prompting fears in Canadian oilpatch

The U.S. and Canada agreed to curb methane emissions last spring, but Congress has now rolled back the Obama-era initiative, which could hurt the competitiveness of the Canadian oil and gas industry » read more

U.S. utilities setting their sights on cheap solar, even as Trump touts fossil fuels

Wind and solar accounted for two-thirds of new U.S. generating capacity last year and despite the paradigm shift in Washington, utilities are increasingly boosting their small-scale solar exposure » read more