Environment

Leading environmental groups are urging the B.C. government to raise gasoline taxes, tweak the carbon tax and close tax loopholes to get more revenue out of industrial polluters as a way to generate $1 billion annually and create what they call the Better Future Fund.

Environmental consultants play a key role in B.C.'s large-scale infrastructure projects

If trash disposal is going to be made cheaper and more sustainable, engineering entrepreneurs need to first provide proof of concept before these solutions will be employed on a large scale

Vancouver has been chosen as the Canadian winner of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) green city challenge, keeping the city in the running for the title of international Earth Hour City.

Heat from the Telus (TSX:T) data centre will be captured and reused in a district energy system being built as part of the $750 million Telus Garden project.

TimberWest received $5.6 million from cash-strapped school districts, hospitals and municipal organizations under the Pacific Carbon Trust (PCT) to save old-growth timber that it had already decided not to log anyway, according to Freedom of Information (FOI) documents obtained by Business in Vancouver.

B.C. environment minister Terry Lake wants to know how much money the Pacific Carbon Trust (PCT) has banked, and says his government may tap any surplus it has accrued to help pay down the province's debt or to cut the price public bodies pay for carbon offsets.

Offsetters Clean Technology, $566,840, 35,146 tonnes at $16.13 per tonneSempa Power Systems Ltd. (Enbala), $45,019, 4,501 tonnes at $10

BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. (TSX:BQE) has entered a partnership in the U.S. to test a new process for cleaning up wastewater from flue gas.

Forestry company TimberWest received $5.6 million from cash-strapped school districts, hospitals and municipal bodies to save old-growth timber that it didn't plan to cut in the first place, under the controversial Pacific Carbon Trust program, Business in Vancouver has learned.