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📢 Have you downloaded your copy yet? 📰 The 8th Annual DNV Maritime Forecast provides valuable data and insights on the future of our industry such as: ❓ How a complex regulatory framework is taking shape, including carbon pricing, mandates on reduced GHG intensity of marine fuels, and the option to pool compliance across a fleet of ships. ❔ What the technological state of play is in the maritime industry today. While the technical transition is underway, supply of carbon-neutral fuels remains scarce. ❓ How a range of operational and technical energy efficiency measures can deliver significant short-term emissions reductions, while also alleviating demand for carbon-neutral fuels. ❔ What role other technologies, like onboard carbon capture, shore power and nuclear, can play in reducing maritime emissions. ❓ How, regardless of the route taken, maritime decarbonization will come at a cost, which will have to be passed along the value chain to consumers. 👇 Download your copy here: https://lnkd.in/eHzevChN DNV

Looking to learn the latest about the #environment sector in #Canada? In this edition: our expert panel, sponsored by Matrix Solutions Inc., examines how to manage risk when constructing some of the country's largest #renewable projects; #SMARTRemediation, presented by Vertex Environmental Inc., shares best practices and the latest technology for #remediation work; #Alberta-based Trace Associates Inc. expands engineering and consulting offerings with acquisition of #Ontario-based XCG, a division of Trace Associates Inc.; Ontario Power Generation gets the greenlight from the provincial government to refurbish Pickering Nuclear Generating plant but some are concerned; celebrating environmental excellence at #ECOImpact with ECO Canada; and more! https://lnkd.in/gDRZmtD2 Environment and Climate Change Canada Ontario Environment Industry Association (ONEIA) Environmental Services Association of Alberta Montrose Environmental Group Environmental Services Association Maritimes - ESAM Réseau Environnement Circular Innovation Council

𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗶𝗱𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 by Ari Natter, Bloomberg News Billions of dollars in #hydrogen-industry subsidies from President Joe Biden’s signature #climate law will come with stringent #environmental #safeguards, raising concerns that strict rules will stifle #production of the nascent climate - friendly fuel. Under the proposed #rules laid out Friday, the new clean-hydrogen #taxcredit won’t benefit existing #nuclearpower plants, which is a blow to reactor owners such as Constellation Energy Corp. that lobbied for inclusion. Administration officials, however, said that could change when the #guidelines are finalized. The hydrogen credit, which provides as much as $3-per-kilogram of production, is meant to spur a domestic #industry for the clean-burning fuel, which is seen as a #critical for #decarbonizing #steel, #cement and heavy #transportation. But the guidance, which is still in draft form and subject to revisions following a 60-day public comment period, has been the subject of intense lobbying in Washington over what kinds of #projects will qualify. Biden #administration officials said they opted to reserve the credit for hydrogen produced using #renewablepower brought online within the last three years and generated at the same time and on the same #powergrids as the gas itself. The Treasury Department’s proposal “will help build the #cleanhydrogen industry while including important environmental safeguards,”  said John Podesta, Biden’s senior adviser for #cleanenergy. Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who has opposed attaching strict environmental rules to the tax credits, blasted the rules, saying they’d hobble the hydrogen industry before it ever gets up and running. The article is here: https://lnkd.in/djPywGZB

Interesting paper from The Bellona Environmental Transparency Center on the technical and political considerations around restarting the #ZNPP. https://lnkd.in/eg57YdG9 Some questions come to mind: Which concerns are most salient for decision makers?  Are the risks associated with restarting the plant enough to maintain the status quo? What lessons can we learn from the last two years of ZNPP's occupation? 

This is a big step in the right direction in the regulatory process for new nuclear sites.

Friends and business colleagues ask if I’m a pro-nuclear guy. I usually get a few chuckles - or confused stares (which happens a lot when I talk - but I digress 🙄) - when I respond clarifying that no, I’m a pro-reliable Grid guy. Or, to expand, I’m a pro-“ensure the Grid provides a sufficient amount of reliable, resilient, affordable, safe, and sustainable amount of electricity” kind of guy. For clarity, ‘sustainability’ encompasses environmental concerns, including issues related to the changing climate. This means to assess every technology against these criteria, then compare the technologies against each other in the context of how they contribute to the Grid. This enables an ‘apples to apples’ comparison of different technologies against other technologies based on the roles they play - or replace - to support Grid operations. The fuels that support these changes, and their associated emissions, can then be factored in - even as a driver. However, this way Grid reliability is maintained or enhanced, if new technologies completely replace the current ways of accomplishing the expected end results - the lights go on when I flick the switch, NOT when the government says it’s my turn to have light. Back to nuclear. Starting with these criteria and using facts plus decades of performance, while I don’t start with nuclear, that’s usually where I end-up in most applications. And all based on comparisons to other options. This latest article by Doomberg is another example of this thought process playing out. So, what are next steps for nuclear: 1. Demonstrate large nuclear plants can be built on schedule and under budget - no excuses. 2. Deploy competitive technology that provides flexible generation - with projects delivered on time and under budget. (Hint: Off-site manufacturing combined with on-site assembly is NOT nirvana that magically guarantees all quality, cost, construction, configuration management, and schedule issues will be satisfactorily addressed).

Exciting news in #CleanEnergy

Yet another incidence of environmental racism... Environmental racism refers to the undue burden of environmental degradation and climate change that is disproportionally felt by minority communities. In Canada, this most often affects Indigenous and African-Canadian people. Earlier this week, Environment Canada confirmed that Canadian Nuclear Laboratories discharged toxic waste into the Ottawa River at their Chalk River site. Shockingly, the dumping occurred in February, Environment Canada was not notified until March, and the public was not informed until this month. The dump occurred during peak fish spawning season, and the Kebaowek First Nation has already reported changes to fish populations and behavior in the area. The effluent has been determined to be lethal to fish, but CNL has yet to release information on exactly what chemicals were released into the waterway. This bodes terribly for the future proposed nuclear waste-water storage site at the Chalk River location, which the Algonquin people are vehemently opposed to for fear of contamination of their traditional territories. The health risks associated with this incident, as well as the proposed nuclear waste site, are high, with the burden placed (once again) on Indigenous people. The lack of transparency, cooperation, and accountability are unacceptable. This is yet another example of environmental racism in Canada and highlights the need for a statutory right to healthy environment.

Public Presentation: Results of the Circular Economy Solutions Dialogues (CESD) on EPR From theory to practice: How to get an EPR scheme running? Following the successful conclusion of the Circular Economy Solutions Dialogues (CESD) in 2021 and 2022, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has initiated a second series of dialogues on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection (BMUV). #epr #circulareconomy #circularity #solidwastemanagement

Interesting read from DeSmog on Canada’s CCS $16.5bn mega 600km pipeline and storage project…. “”In Alberta, the member companies of the Pathways Alliance are breaking the project into 126 separate parts in an apparent effort to avoid triggering a provincial environmental assessment”” You would think such size and risk deserves scrutiny… “”In dollar terms, this is larger than the Site C dam, the $15.7 billion Go Train expansion in Ontario, or rebuilding the Bruce or Darlington nuclear reactors. Yet if the bitumen industry gets their way, this massive undertaking largely paid for through taxpayer subsidies may move forward without a comprehensive assessment at the federal or provincial level, despite numerous potential impacts on public safety, water conservation and Indigenous rights.”” What could possibly go wrong 🤷♂️🤯 #ccs #pathwaysalliance #albertaoilsands https://lnkd.in/euXsHAGR