Despite our best efforts to foresee what the future will bring, we really don’t know what is forthcoming until the future becomes the present. The challenge of climate change has focused our attention on what this unknowable future will look like and what we can or should do about any potentially serious impacts. The focus […] Read more
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‘Heat highway’: opportunity or danger?
Alberta needs to do more to protect farmers under proposed provincial legislation that aims to clarify the rules for the development of geothermal energy, says a surface rights advocate. “We’ve told the government we’re very concerned about this new geothermal bill because it strips all the protection of oil and gas away from these (geothermal) […] Read more
Rebates make solar power a ‘no-brainer’
UPDATE: September 23, 2019 – The day this story was posted SaskPower announced it was halting its net metering program. The program is currently “under review.” Joe Wecker spent years looking into a solar power system for his organic farm in southern Saskatchewan, but it didn’t make financial sense until a rebate program was introduced by […] Read more
Brown energy? Dung to power Finnish horse show
OSLO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Horse manure will generate electricity for an international horse show in Finland this month in a new form of alternative energy, Finnish utility Fortum said on Wednesday. It said the Helsinki horse show in mid-October will be the first at which the event’s electricity needs, from scoreboards to lighting, are […] Read more
Sask. rejects wind turbine project at Chaplin
A wind power project near Chaplin, Sask., will not go ahead in its proposed location. Environment minister Scott Moe announced today that the potential impacts on migratory birds were too great and for that reason he could not approve it. The $355 million project was planned for an area north of Chaplin. Chaplin Lake, part […] Read more
Solar vs. wind: A tough call
Farmers who look on the internet for an easy solution to the question, which is better, solar or wind generation, will not find it. Natural Resources Canada has a good solar potential map with bright colours and useful measurements. It’s considered to be a good source of solar information. Unfortunately, there’s no comparable map for […] Read more
