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Canadian merchandise exports reach all-time high

University pioneering urban biomass heating
The University of Winnipeg’s new biomass heating system will be a model for other institutions, say proponents of alternative energy sources
When school starts this fall, the University of Winnipeg will flip the switch on a novel way to keep downtown buildings heated — with boilers that burn wood pellets. Last fall the downtown university took delivery of two 100-kilowatt biomass boilers, to provide supplementary heating a steam plant now provides for its Ashdown, Manitoba and
Carbon tax revenue use options pitched at AMM
Rural and small-town government leaders pass resolutions, propose ideas for recycling carbon taxes at 2017 fall convention

Streamlined, improved KAP checkoff takes effect Dec. 1
Bill 35 went from second reading to Royal assent in just four and a half days

Door opens to hog expansion
Anaerobic digesters out, new barns in

Carbon tax could translate into more demand for canola

Workshops pitch less stress for cattle and farmer
Talks and workshops cover the basics of low-stress cattle handling

Agriculture major player in ‘Made-in-Manitoba Climate and Green Plan’
Increasing the biodiesel mandate could cut up to 431,000 tonnes of carbon by 2022, second only to reductions expected from the $25-a-tonne carbon tax

Cutting the cost of ethanol
Researchers devise a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels

Cold-loving bacteria turns food waste into energy and fertilizer
Canada’s frigid winters have always limited using natural processes to convert waste