Ontario’s Landmark Green Energy Plan Delivers
CANADA - The future will be brighter for many businesses in Ontario as more than 500 new green energy projects, most of them solar power installations, have been approved.

Daewoo Shipbuilding to Build Canadian Wind Farm
CANADA - South Korean ship building company, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, who diversified into wind energy last year, is to set a joint venture for a wind farm with the Canadian...

Canada Invests in Oil Seed Research and Innovation
CANADA - The Canadian Government is investing in research and innovation that will give oil seed producers the tools to protect and build their businesses.

Official Backing for NewPage Biomass Plant
CANADA - Plans have been put forward for a biomass plant at the NewPage Point Tupper paper mill in Nova Scotia.

Canadian Government Invests in Quebec Biofuels
CANADA - The Canadian Government's ecoENERGY for Biofuels programme is to provide the funding to GreenField’s Varennes ethanol plant to help strengthen the Canadian renewable fuel industry.

Increased Demand for US DDGS Expected in Canada
CANADA - As North America increased the production of fuel from renewable sources, ethanol production surged, simultaneously producing considerable volumes of the co-product distiller’s dried...

Investment for Waste Management and Enerkem
CANADA - Waste Management Inc is to amke a strategic investment in Enerkem Inc as part of Enerkem’s new financing round.

Canadian Gov't Delivers Energy Loans for Farmers
CANADA - Canadian agriculture producers and agribusiness operators who are considering the use of renewable energy sources in their business will soon have a new financing option thanks to a...

Benefits of Corn DDGS Feeding Strategies
CANADA - An Alberta-based feed research scientist is advising pork producers to withdraw corn DDGS from grower finisher diets two to three weeks prior to marketing to preserve backfat hardness...

Wheat DDGS Inclusion Rate Impacts Dressing Per Cent
CANADA - An Alberta-based feed research scientist is advising pork producers to ship market hogs fed diets containing high inclusions of wheat dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) at...

Organic Feedstock for Anaerobic Digester
CANADA - Organic Resource Management Inc. is to supply organic residuals to a farm-based Anaerobic Digester ("AD") at the Delft Blue, "Corner Farm", a division of Grober Group Inc., located near...

Biomass Conference
CANADA - Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) will hold its 3rd annual Biomass Conference in Carman 26 February.

Biofuel Plant Plan for Laval City
CANADA - The Canadian city of Laval has put forward plans to build a C$121.3 million biofuel plant using organic waste as a feedstock.

Walmart Canada Announces Wind and Solar Projects
CANADA - Walmart Canada is to conduct two significant wind and solar power projects.

Solar Plant for Ontario
CANADA -Plans have been put forward for a solar power plant in Ontario.

Bio-Future for Canada’s Forest Products Industry
CANADA - A study by the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) shows how the forest products industry can build on its world-class forest management practices to emerge from the current...

Wind Farms Offset Federal Financial Incentive
CANADA – A study by GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, estimates that renewing a Canadian federal financial incentive that has now allocated virtually all of its funding for wind energy...

10 MW of Rooftop Solar Projects in Canada
CANADA - Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), Inc. and Enfinity Corporation today announced plans to collaborate on the development of a 10MW portfolio of rooftop solar installations in Ontario,...

Invenergy To Build $179 Million Wind Power Project
CANADA - Manulife Financial has announced the completion of a $179 million financing with Invenergy Wind North America for the construction and long term operation of a 78 megawatt wind farm...

Quebec City To Get Biofuel Plant
CANADA - The construction of a new $57 million waste transformation plant in Quebec City will help reduce green-house gas emissions, officials announced earlier this week.

UBC Receives C$10.5M to Map Sunflower Genome
CANADA - University of British Columbia researchers have received $10.5 million in funding from Genome Canada through the Government of Canada, Genome BC and international partners to enable...

Ministers Tour Bioenergy Projects
CANADA - A recent Prince Edward Island ministerial tour of four privately-operated biomass facilities will give government valuable information on the potential and the challenges of using farm...

Scientists Seek Out Sunflower Genome
CANADA - A new research project is working to create a reference genome for the sunflower family, which would enable growers to breed crops better suited to environmental conditions.

Canada Improving Market Access for Canola
CANADA - Canada's canola farmers can look forward to better market access and profitability for their crops thanks to the Government of Canada's investment in the development of a comprehensive...

Government Bscks Next-generation Biofuels Project
CANADA – A technology that could allow biofuels producers to increase both their profitability and competitiveness has been given a boost by the Canadian government.