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Car 2.0

Ontario plans for “an intelligent merging” of coal-free electricity
with battery-powered cars. Among the beneficiaries
will be green-collar workers and Planet Earth.

Say goodbye to oil
and the lifestyle it supported

Although recent consumption rates are “the most vociferous in history,”
the world is fast running out of oil. The repercussions will
hit us sooner and harder than many people realize.

Electric cars, trains, transit,
cruise ships and now tug boats

More news that clean electricity will fuel a sustainable economy
comes from Oregon, where Canadian technology
is helping develop hybrid tug boats.

‘Greenhouse gases hit record high’

Just-released figures show that GHGs continue to increase at dangerous levels.
With global action more urgent than ever, representatives from 190 countries
are about to negotiate a new climate-change treaty. They can take
encouragement from the news that ozone-depleting CFCs
have diminished following a 1987 treaty.

B.C.’s dirtiest source of electricity
needs more electricity
to clean up its act

Alberta and Saskatchewan are exploring “clean coal” technologies
that critics say are unproven and uneconomical. If implemented,
these methods will use up to half as much electricity as they generate.

B.C.’s dirtiest source of electricity cranks up production

As Alberta produces more electricity to meet greater demand,
pollution from coal mines and coal-fired plants takes a heavy toll on
the environment and health. This is the dirty electricity that B.C. imports.

Vancouver becomes Canada’s first major city to approve electric cars

Some details still have to be worked out, but driving Terminal City
is about to get cleaner, quieter and much, much cheaper
— as long as we have enough electricity.

Egad! E-cars coming to Vancouver?

The clean car cause gains further momentum as Vancouver
could become Canada’s first major city to allow electric vehicles.

Cruise ships: replacing
dirty diesel with clean electricity

Imagine all the greenhouse gases that would result from a luxury resort
powered by diesel-generated electricity. Then imagine two or more of those
resorts right inside a city. That’s why the port of Vancouver wants cruise ships
docking there to plug into the grid — or even to use locally produced
wind and tidal energy.

Air pollution will kill up to
21,000 Canadians this year alone

Smog will kill 2,000 British Columbians this year and,
unless something is done, 710,000 Canadians by 2031,
according to the Canadian Medical Association.

Circling the globe via SolarTaxi

A round-the-world jaunt proves electric cars can go the distance.

‘All aboard for this electrifying idea’

Canada’s diesel-burning railway system spews out
the same annual GHG output as 1.2 million automobiles.
Clean electricity can change all that.

Clean electricity
and the end of the Oil Age

Denmark and Israel show how B.C. can fuel
a new generation of no-emission vehicles

‘Devastation at 3,000 feet’

Massachusetts, like British Columbia, gets about 15 per cent of its electricity
from coal. Greenhouse gases aren't the only problem. A delegation from
West Virginia told New Englanders how coal mining has caused
“the devastation of Appalachia.”

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