April 17, 2023 Suncor’s Fort Hills expansion to be reconsidered by regulator The Alberta Wilderness Association had asked the regulator to revoke the permission after finding deficiencies in Suncor’s plan.
April 17, 2023 New battery recycling system allows for 70% lithium recovery A new recycling system allows for recovering 70% of lithium from battery waste without corrosive chemicals, high temperatures, and prior sorting of materials.
April 16, 2023 Europe’s biggest reactor caps 14-year delay to begin commercial output Olkiluoto-3 is the first new atomic reactor in the Nordic countries since the mid-1980s.
April 16, 2023 Coal phase-out not happening fast enough to avoid rising global temperatures — study A recent study shows that the use of coal power is not decreasing fast enough to avoid a temperature rise higher than 2 degrees Celsius by 2100 as established in…
April 15, 2023 G-7 nears fossil fuel phase-out deal without coal exit deadline The Group of Seven fell short of sealing a deal on a timeline to exit coal.
April 15, 2023 Germany retires nuclear plants in hopes of greener pastures Germany ends its tumultuous six-decade reliance on nuclear energy.
April 14, 2023 Industrial contamination may no longer be contained by Arctic permafrost — study Industrial legacy buried in the Arctic permafrost or deposited on its surface may no longer be contained by the frozen soil, researchers have found.
April 12, 2023 Rio Tinto starts construction to expand capacity at Quebec aluminum smelter The $178 million investment will allow more of Rio's aluminium production to be used to make billets from renewable hydroelectric power.
April 12, 2023 Water-based batteries store more energy than previously thought US-based researchers are getting closer to developing metal-free batteries.
April 11, 2023 Coal supplying less US power than gas, renewables and nuclear Coal use in the US power market is set to decline for a second year in succession.
ERG signs long-term gallium supply deal with Mitsubishi Kazakhstan, which currently produces no gallium, is set to become the world's second-largest producer. December 20, 2025 | 08:34 am