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The most widely read ‘green’ site on the Web has a firehose worth of material, in part because they themselves fill their hydrant with almost everything green that is published online. I’m going to try clip some of the highlights regularly for CP readers: Yet another reason EVs trump FCVs (see “ Climate and hydrogen car advocate gets almost everything wrong about plug-in cars “) — — people are actually spending big bucks to building the EV infrastructure France to Spend $2.2 Billion o

The green car race is not restricted to vehicle manufacturers desperate to steal a march on their rivals – it’s also apparent that some of the leading nations are battling to be the first to have infrastructure in place for the electrification of the automobile. France is the latest country to throw its name into the hat with its minister for ecology, energy, sustainable development and the sea, Jean Louis Borloo, presenting a national 14-point plan to accelerate the development and commercial

Last week the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published an update for the G20 Summit on its call from earlier this year for a Global Green New Deal . This update showed that Canada is close to the bottom in the stimulus funds it is committing to green economic areas. According to the UNEP, only 8% of Canada’s stimulus spending is going to “green” areas (energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transport, sustainable agriculture, and ecological infrastructure) compared t

Ontario’s power grid is getting a $2.3 billion makeover as part of an ambitious, three-year effort to create 20,000 jobs and bring more green electricity to homes and businesses across the province. Energy and Infrastructure Minister George Smitherman said yesterday that Crown-owned Hydro One has been told to move quickly on a plan to expand and fortify the province’s vast network of power-carrying transmission and distribution lines, many of which run through aboriginal territories and reach as

Sept. 3 – The country’s top economic planner,The National Development and Reform Commission, recently gave the green light to Chongqing’s “Three Bases and Four Ports” logistic investment plan according to a report made by the Shanghai Securities News.The bases will include a railway container terminal at Tuanjiecun, an airport logistic center at Jiangbei International Airport and a highway logistic base in Banan District. The four ports will consist of waterway terminals based at Cuntan, Guoyua