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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

Fossil fuels here to stay… for now

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

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

Legal opinion backs Pallister’s approach to carbon pricing
Manitoba’s ‘Green Plan’ to cut emissions will be out soon and the premier says he wants Manitobans’ feedback

Cutting the cost of ethanol
Researchers devise a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels
Court decision may boost biofuels, hit refiners

Manitoba sunshine brightens solar power opportunities
Many hours of sunshine make power generation possible even in the dead of winter

Renewable energy gaining traction in Manitoba
The agriculture community finds itself in the forefront of this evolution

Hutterite colonies leading the masses with biomass heating
IISD, colonies and Providence College are proving biomass heating technology to be viable
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