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Price tag for Muskrat Falls hydro megaproject rises by another billion

Stan Marshall, the head of Newfoundland's Nalcor Energy, says the Labrador hydro site will now cost $12.7 billion, a whopping $5 billion more than the original estimates. He continues to stress the project should never have been built


U.S. trade rep vows to take a ‘do-no-harm’ approach to NAFTA talks

It’s becoming clear the Trump administration doesn't have a coherent plan for NAFTA. The message has ranged from calling it “a disaster” and promising to kill it one moment; to saying it just needs "tweaks" the next


UPS Canada aims to have half its fleet running on alternative fuels by 2018

As part of its new sustainability initiative, the company plans to add more alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles to its fleet while increasing its reliance on renewable energy sources


Mississippi told to pull the plug on failing US$7.5B plant meant to show coal can be clean

Tinkering with technology designed to turn soft lignite coal into synthetic gas, Mississippi Power is billions over budget and three years behind schedule on the project. Despite intermittent success, the plant has never operated reliably
 
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A solar-powered border wall: Trump’s latest bright, albeit unoriginal idea

The U.S. president touted "his" imaginative plan to line the unfunded, unpopular Mexico border wall with solar panels, saying they could help pay for construction » read more

U.S. Mayors ready to tackle climate policy in absence of federal action

"I think most mayors in America don't think we have to wait for the president," said New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu at the annual U.S. Conferences of Mayors. Landrieu added that "politics has almost no influence on science" » read more
 
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Energy chief joins other Trump officials, says CO2 not main cause of climate change

Rick Perry said challenging the scientific consensus doesn't make a person a "Neanderthal." He went on to detail his own, unsupported theory for what's causing global warming, which one critic dubbed "exactly backward" » read more

Ontario looking at hydrogen fuel cells to electrify Toronto’s GO rail network

Hydrogen-powered trains would eliminate the need for costly overhead wires and could take advantage of the province's surplus of clean power it currently exports to the U.S. » read more