Transportation

02/10/23
Author: 
John Helmer, Moscow
KICK START OR KICK OVER — CAN THE US DEFEAT RUSSIA IN THE LITHIUM BATTERY WAR?

Sept. 28, 2023

In January of this year the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported the reserves of the nine leading countries in the world which mine lithium, the new fuel to power electric batteries. Chile led, followed by Australia, Argentina, China, and the US which claims to have one million tonnes. Russia was left out of the USGS chart.

01/10/23
Author: 
Vipal Monga
Flying over the Hudson Bay Lowlands to the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario.

Sept. 28, 2023

$67 Billion of Rare Minerals Is Buried Under One of the World’s Biggest Carbon Sinks

A fight is brewing in Canada about how, or whether, to dig out materials essential for EV batteries that lie deep beneath vast peat bogs

The pace of the global transition to electric vehicles depends on the future of a remote region in Canada known as the Ring of Fire.

28/09/23
Author: 
Liam Fox The Canadian Press
President of CLV Group Developments Oz Drewniak pictured outside The Slayte in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. The Slayte is an office to residential conversion project by CLV Group Developments. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick  skp

Sept. 27, 2023

Drilling into office-to-residential conversions

OTTAWA - The building used to feature endless cubicles, long hallways and fluorescent lighting.

Now, the same spaces house modern apartments featuring granite countertop islands, fully furnished bedrooms and living rooms with views looking out to the Gatineau Hills.

31/08/23
Author: 
Lawrence Martin
Gantry cranes sit idle as a container ship is docked at the Port of Vancouver on July 19. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Aug. 30, 2023

An important point that some of us have overlooked: Canada will come under increasing pressure to market fossil fuels to other nations to balance our trade accounts!!! 

              - Gene (Vancouver Ecosocialists)

In Canada, which is heavily trade-dependent, free trade has been popular for several decades. For Conservative or Liberal governments, inking a new pact was reflexively hailed as a big achievement.

31/08/23
Author: 
Alex Hemingway
Property owners should pay their share, says Alex Hemingway. Photo via Shutterstock.

Aug. 30, 2023

Land wealth is fuelling inequality and rising housing costs. Here’s a solution.

23/08/23
Author: 
Mel Gurtov
 Mining - Photo by Sachin Mamtora

Aug. 20, 2023

EV production releases nearly 70 percent more greenhouse gases than are produced in an ordinary car’s manufacture.

In his pathbreaking 1971 book, The Closing Circle, Barry Commoner proposed four laws of ecology: 

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