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Fortescue withdraws hydrogen project from B.C. environmental review
The Site C Dam location is seen along the Peace River in Fort St. John, B.C., Tuesday, April 18, 2017. The cost of British Columbia's Site C hydroelectric dam has grown to $16 billion and the completion has been moved up a year to 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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‘Hype’ meets reality as Canada’s plans to export hydrogen to Germany stall
Construction the White Rose offshore oil production platform at the Argentia Port Authority in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. Site of proposed hydrogen production facility. GREG LOCKE / The Globe and Mail
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Latin America gears up for clean hydrogen boom but the road is not smooth
A drone view of HIF Global's Haru Oni clean hydrogen plant in Punta Arenas, Chile September 27, 2024. REUTERS/Joel Estay
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Shell scraps plans for hydrogen project on Norway’s west coast due to lack of demand
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a board with the logo of Shell at the company's fuel station in Saint Petersburg, Russia May 6, 2022. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov
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Green energy projects eye underground salt caverns as key to hydrogen storage
This photo provided by the U.S. Department of Energy shows a section of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility in West Hackberry, La. Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-U.S. Department of Energy via AP
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Globe Climate: Suspense builds around water quality in the Seine
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swims in the Seine river, Wednesday, July 17, 2024 in Paris. After months of anticipation, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the Seine River on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise she made months ago to show the river is clean enough to host open-swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics — and the opening ceremony on the river nine days away.(Joel Saget, Pool via AP)
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California first state to get federal funds for hydrogen energy hub to help replace fossil fuels
FILE - A hydrogen fuel cell bus is refueled at a fueling station, March 16, 2021, in Canton, Ohio. California will be the first state to receive federal funds under a program to create regional networks, or "hubs," that produce hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity, officials announced Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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German coalition agrees on financing details of hydrogen network
FILE PHOTO: German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck points at a map showing Germany's hydrogen network during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, November 14, 2023. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
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A different kind of steam engine: How CPKC aims to decarbonize its fleet with hydrogen locomotives
Kyle Mulligan, Assistant Vice President of Operations Technology, right, talks about CPKC's 3rd ever hydrogen locomotive, and first-ever high-speed hydrogen locomotive in Calgary on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. With a goal of having 5 hydrogen locomotives running in the near future on multiple routes including Calgary to Edmonton and Calgary to Golden, CPKC is hoping, among other things, to model a new type of technology to demonstrate to other companies what is possible. (Photo by Jude Brocke/The Globe and Mail)
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Dreams of Canada-EU hydrogen trade are a sinking ship
Paul Martin and Jochen Bard
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Ottawa signs memorandum of understanding with Germany for Canadian hydrogen
Canada and Germany have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a trade program to sell hydrogen produced in Atlantic Canada. The agreement signed in Germany by federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, shown in this Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 file photo, and German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck is to secure early access to the German market for Canadian hydrogen producers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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‘Green’ hydrogen project in Newfoundland to get $128-million federal loan
World Energy GH2 CEO Sean Leet, right, looks on as Labour and Seniors Minister Seamus O’Regan speaks during an announcement in the Foyer of the House of Commons, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 in Ottawa. Export Development Canada and World Energy GH2 say they have reached an agreement for a $128 million credit facility which is a business loan similar to a line of credit.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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B.C. backs hydrogen despite concerns about electricity supply shortage
Josie Osborne, minister of energy, mines and low carbon innovation, speaks during an announcement at the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, in North Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday, June 15, 2023. British Columbia's government is accelerating its zero-emission vehicle targets so it can hit its goal five years sooner. Osborne says the province is the "first in the world" to put EV sales target into law. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Australia’s Fortescue touts hydrogen plans in B.C. despite limited hydroelectricity supply
Fortescue Future Industries Chairman Andrew Forrest at their office in Perth, Australia on Aug 12, 2022. PHOTO BY Frances Andrijich
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Eby says planned Prince George, B.C., hydrogen project will cut emissions, boost jobs
British Columbia Premier David Eby says a planned clean energy hydrogen project in Prince George is set to cut harmful carbon emissions and create jobs. Eby speaks during a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
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Saudi Arabia says it has shifted focus to all kinds of energy, not just oil
FILE PHOTO: Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud attends the plenary, after a draft of a negotiation deal was released, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 13, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky//File Photo
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China’s SPIC plans US$5.85-billion investment turning green hydrogen into fuel
FILE PHOTO: Wind turbines stand on a power station near Yumen, Gansu province, China September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo
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Hydrogen: A big piece of the clean-energy puzzle
Hydrogen can help nations meet their carbon dioxide reduction goals as the fuel can be used in manufacturing, shipping and mass transportation where it can be more difficult to use battery technology.
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Ontario funding projects aimed at using hydrogen to power electricity grid
<div>Ontario is putting nearly $6 million toward nine projects aimed at making use of hydrogen to power the province's electricity grid. Todd Smith, Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, speaks at the microphone at Queen's Park in Toronto, Thursday, June 4, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rick Madonik - POOL</div>
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Israel-Hamas, Ukraine wars to feature prominently in St. John’s EU-Canada Summit beginning today
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses European lawmakers ahead of a NATO summit and G7 meeting, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Brussels, Belgium, March 23, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron