Tag: Western
The Issues with PHEV Usage Reflect the Challenges to BEV Adoption
In reading through recent articles on the PHEV debate, the followup on PHEV reporting, and the range of insightful comments to those articles, one persistent question popped out: if you were to buy a PHEV, why wouldn’t you plug it in? Taking a step back, a PHEV is essentially giving … [continued]
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Michigan Supreme Court to hear Line 5 permit appeals
The state’s highest court will reconsider the Michigan Court of Appeals’ decision in favor of the permit back in February.
Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together
By Kari Lydersen
This story was originally published by Canary Media.
To all the challenges the solar industry is facing today, add one more: cultivating a domestic market for lamb meat. It may seem an unlikely mission for clean-energy developers, but in many states, including Illinois, grazing sheep between rows of photovoltaic panels is considered the most efficient form of agrivoltaics — the combination of solar and farming on the same land.
Campbell’s Co. admits to years of polluting Maumee River, Lake Erie at Ohio canning facility
The Campbell’s Co. admitted on Monday to polluting the Maumee River that feeds into Lake Erie over a six-year span at the company’s massive canning facility in western Ohio. The […]
Bruce County Memories: Farmerettes were the unsung heroes on the home front
It was 1940, a time of national emergency. At the start of the Second World War, Hitler’s army ruthlessly swept across western Europe. Britain suffered devastating bombing raids and food shortages due to German blockades. Canadian farms would have to supply hundreds of thousands of tons of food to feed the troops and the starving […]