By Doug Hadfield In the last few years, investors in green energy will have noted the impact that calls for private sector power have had on some publicly traded companies. BC Hydro’s 2006 call for power had the notable effect of boosting Plutonic Power Corp. (TSX: PCC) from under $1 per share to its new trading [...]

The news story scorched a path through the tech-blogoshpere faster than Steve Jobs can say, “Solar powered iPhone.” In true blogosphere style, Sustainablenews.com quoted Forbes.com who excerpted TradetheNews.com who had stated that MacRumors.com wrote, “A recently published patent application discovered by MacRumors reveals that Apple is investigating the use of solar power in versions of [...]

“These aren’t simple solutions, nor will they be easy to implement. There will be plenty of setbacks, complications, and conflicts of interest along the way. But we either rise to the challenge or go the way of the dinosaur. It’s our choice. The vise is closing.” This bit of wisdom from the desk of Walt McLaughlin, [...]

"Essentially, all of the incidents that occurred in the past were preventable had the operations been certified under the Cyanide Code and followed its Principles and Standards of Practice," Mudder said.

Cyanide Story (Part One): Are We Doing Enough to Prevent Cyanide Spills? By Doug Hadfield, MiningandMoney.com It’s the stuff of legend. For many, the word “cyanide” conjures images of mass suicides, illegal fishing in the Philippines and the murder of Rasputin. Pretty nefarious stuff. But hydrogen cyanide is a valuable and arguably indispensable industrial chemical, particularly in [...]

Starfield Resources (TSX:SRU) recently announced that it has developed an environmentally friendly way to process ore at its 100% owned Fergson Lake Project in Nunavut where the company has been exploring for, and finding, nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group elements. It seems that necessity bred invention for Starfield at Ferguson Lake. The method typically [...]

Here’s a slurry story that isn’t hard to articulate: Radar Acquisitions (TSX.V: RAC) says it can recycle the primary waste product from coal mines, known as slurry, into a cleaner burning fuel the company is calling “Re-Fuel”. Radar’s efforts could capitalize on the inherent qualities of coal as a source of energy-both the “positive” and the [...]

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Sierra Geothermal Power Corp (TSX.V:SRA) is a Vancouver-based geothermal company I wanted to start with partly because they’re local, but also because they’re industry leaders in geothermal power. CEO and President Gary Thompson is a P.Geo who is knowledgeable and passionate about the potential for geothermal. I first spoke to Gary Thompson a few months [...]

Once upon a time there was a junior resource company operating in Chile called International PBX (TSX.V - PBX). The company was run (well, Chaired) by a grand old pappy of the resource sector named Len De Melt, a man of history as much as a man of metals. Sometime I’ll write a standalone piece [...]