Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Hon. Navdeep Bains, announced a $20 million investment in Terrestrial Energy to accelerate development of the company’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) power plant. This is the first such investment from the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) announcing support for a Small Modular Reactor […]
A Winnipeg not-for-profit working to see a million new trees planted in the city over the next two decades is doubling its efforts to get tree seedlings into the hands of budding back-yard arborists this year. Tree Winnipeg’s ReLeaf program has been providing hundreds of trees for Winnipeggers […]
Ethiopia’s ambitious national reforestation program seeks to plant 4 billion trees by October. Ethiopia is clearly on an equally ambitious path, the treeplanting record in India that was recently announced. As the World Economic Forum reports, at the turn of the 20th century, forested land comprised nearly a third of […]
Coal is struggling in the U.S. — It is being used less and coal plants are shutting down. But President Trump is following through on his campaign promise to bring back coal. Last month, he called for a bailout for the nation’s floundering coal-fired and nuclear power plants. Keeping these coal […]