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By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – A new survey of car sales representatives suggests cost and supply are the two main barriers that are keeping Canadians from buying more electric vehicles.
Those are among the key issues expected to be addressed when Ottawa’s long-awaited national electric car strategy is released sometime before the end of the year.
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is investing some financial green to support Green Team projects this summer.
The province is providing over $5.4 million to 700 community organizations, municipalities and provincial parks.
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba government moved closer Monday to charging a carbon tax on a handful of large emitters in the province.
The Progressive Conservative government released a discussion paper that eyes a price of $25 per tonne on industrial facilities with annual emissions of at least 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
WINNIPEG — Great-West Life has installed two beehives on the rooftop of their Osborne Street building to help boost the declining bee population.
Managed by local beekeeping firm Beeproject Apiaries, the hives will allow bees to reproduce and continue their important work as pollinators for local greenspaces and food production.
WINNIPEG — The Assiniboine Park Conservancy has eliminated the use of plastic straws and bags inside its park and zoo.
APC says the move is being made as part of its commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship.
A $25,000 grant to an instructor and researcher at Assiniboine Community College in Brandon is using so-called “good bugs” to weed out other pests that may injure and sometimes kill plants.
Dr. Poonam Singh is the recipient of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant from the NSERC Engage program.
WINNIPEG — The first solar-powered trash container is now up and running in Winnipeg.
Called the “Big Belly,” it’s the first of its kind in the province and replaces one of the regular duo waste and recycling containers at 117 Regent Avenue.
Salisbury House plans to eliminate plastic straws from its restaurants and replace them with a bio-degradable alternative as of June 1.
The Winnipeg restaurant chain says the move comes after some municipal governments in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe do away with plastic straws.
