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Business Solutions

Canada’s business sector has a pivotal role to play in advancing climate action through investment decisions, strategic planning and engagement on climate and health challenges to secure a sustainable and prosperous economy. However, traditional business media too often under-report the solutions developed and implemented by the business community. This project, produced in collaboration with I-SEA, The Roadburg Foundation and the Climate Solutions Reporting Project, aims to fill that gap in coverage.

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Workers install solar panels at the Chappice Lake solar farm and storage project north of Medicine Hat in 2023. It is North America’s largest vanadium flow battery, with a storage capacity of  8.4 megawatts of solar power serving the electricity needs of 7,000 Albertans. (Source: Invinity Energy Systems)

In renewables storage, an old technology finds a new home

Flow battery advocates say their water-based technology needs a fraction of the metals used in lithium batteries and can store energy longer and without fire risk. But high costs could limit its role in renewable energy storage.
Business Solutions
By
  • Zack Metcalfe
  • News
  • Business
July 16th 2025
Melanie Joly,

EU defence demand for critical minerals could jump start Canada's sluggish market: Joly

Transatlantic trade 'dialogue' to focus on critical minerals for defence and clean energy technologies, along with energy, quantum manufacturing, and green steel and aluminum, with an action plan to follow "within three months". 
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
July 14th 2025

Trump's anti-offshore wind ire leading US states to look north for Atlantic Canada clean power

Northeast states’ options to meet ambitious clean energy targets since the US government placed a moratorium on offshore wind projects could open the door to large-scale developments planned off Atlantic Canada, say experts.
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
June 30th 2025

Polar bears and crude oil don’t mix

Western premiers dream of a new economic corridor to Hudson Bay, linking mineral and energy exports to global shipping routes. But some eco-tourism operators in Churchill worry an oil spill would devastate wildlife habitats and their industry.
Business Solutions
By
  • Christopher Pollon
  • Analysis
  • Business
June 24th 2025

Ports across the North Atlantic join forces, signalling more Arctic cooperation

Ahead of the NATO Summit in the Netherlands, ports in Nova Scotia, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands have formed the Northern Lights Ports Alliance to develop civil and naval industrial infrastructure with an eye on energy and geopolitical security.
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
June 24th 2025

Canada races to catch up as G7 releases action plan for critical minerals

Canada’s vast critical mineral wealth is beyond dispute. Whether the global strategy agreed at this week’s meeting of industrialized nations in Kananaskis, Alta. will help or hinder the country’s chances in this key energy transition market remains a question.
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • Analysis
  • Business
June 19th 2025

Could Canada’s carbon capture ambitions catch a chill from Iceland’s struggling Mammoth project?

Lackluster results from a pioneering CO2 removal pilot plant near Reykjavik won’t dim interest in an emerging climate technology known as direct air capture, industry says. But skeptics argue the hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into projects in Canada would be better spent on renewables and EVs as DAC might be 'a dead technology walking'.
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • Analysis
  • Business
June 16th 2025

Canada risks squandering multi-billion-dollar critical minerals market without 'swift action': report

A $12 billion a year domestic market for minerals and metals key to the country’s energy transition could be lost unless the federal government attract the massive investments needed to propel development of copper, nickel, lithium, graphite, cobalt, and rare earth element mines, a new study from the Canadian Climate Institute has concluded.
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
June 12th 2025

Canada’s clean energy investment slows but momentum could surge with new power deals

Rising role of energy security in government policy could help drive acceleration of renewables and infrastructure construction projects by Mark Carney's Liberals, says Clean Energy Canada, as industry watchdog the International Energy Agency publishes latest global sector investment report
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
June 9th 2025

Warming waters revive port plans in Churchill

Canada's only deep-water Arctic port in Churchill, MB has been sidelined for years, but that could change as a US trade war looms. Western premiers want an upgraded port to export critical minerals, potash and energy to global markets.
Business Solutions
By
  • Christopher Pollon
  • Analysis
  • Business
June 6th 2025

Boeing bets on Canadian green jet fuel technologies

The aircraft giant invested $17.5 million in two projects that will generate sustainable aviation fuels — converting lumber waste in Quebec and CO2 emissions in BC into low-carbon e-fuels.
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
May 29th 2025

Throne speech pledges 'energy superpower' future but observers flag climate impact on cost of living

King Charles echoing Liberal ambition to build new climate action-informed industrial strategy seen as good news by business and industry leaders but concern remains about possible slow-down to energy transition
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
May 27th 2025

Volkswagen's EV battery-maker charges ahead with $7 billion gigafactory as rivals’ plans stall

PowerCo ‘confident’ its facility in St. Thomas, Ont., set to employ 3,000 workers, will shift into production in 2027 bolstered by a ‘flexible’ technology manufacturing strategy, as Honda becomes latest auto sector major to pause investment.
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
May 16th 2025

Canadian industry urges Carney cabinet to drive transition with 'ambition and action'

Newly appointed federal ministers must focus on a range of key areas including clean investment tax credits, grid modernization, and streamlining interprovincial trade to bolster the economy in the face of US tariffs and slow-rolling reindustrialization, leading business groups say.
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
May 14th 2025

Honda pumps brakes on $15 billion EV hub, Ontario premier vows to hold auto firms 'accountable'

Slowing demand for EVs and US tariffs impact on Canada’s auto sector force the Japanese automaker to postpone plans for an EV supply chain in Ontario, dealing a severe blow to Canadian EV ambitions.
Business Solutions
By
  • Darius Snieckus
  • News
  • Business
May 13th 2025

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