Montpellier, France has become the latest European city to offer free public transit for local residents, fulfilling a campaign promise by Mayor Michael Delafosse before he was elected in 2020.
Two Canadian provinces unveiled major moves last week to increase their supplies of renewable electricity, largely to serve skyrocketing demand from industry, while a third took criticism for an upcoming renewables procurement that won’t shift its reliance on natural gas peaker plants and nuclear generation.
Provincial utilities and private power producers will be allowed to run natural gas plants under the Clean Electricity Regulations published Thursday by Environment and Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault, but only if they can capture 95% of the climate pollution they produce.
13 oil and gas companies operating or based in Canada are on the list of 88 big carbon polluters now being called out for a major share of the forested lands lost to wildfires in North America between 1986 and 2021, The Energy Mix has learned.