Tesla Motors recently announced that it has launched a comprehensive strategy to recycle its sports cars’ battery packs throughout Europe. Tesla has delivered more than 1,500 Roadsters to customers in at least 30 countries in Europe, North America and Asia

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND ‑Eight Canadian companies have made the Global 100 list of most sustainable, privately-held large corporations, placing Canada fourth among 22 countries. Three companies are in the energy sector. Japan led the way with 19 Global 100 companies, and the U.S

BLAINVILLE, Que.: Xebec Adsorption Inc.’s biogas technology has launched the first renewable energy project in California to purify biogas from a wastewater treatment facility. A new biogas purification plant at the Hale Avenue Resource Recovery Facility in Escondido, Calif. is a joint project of the city, Southern California Gas Co.

DETROIT‑ GMC Yukon took top honors in the full-size SUV category of IntelliChoice’s 2011 Best Overall Values of the Year (BOVY) awards, announced Jan. 5 at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) convention in San Francisco

MONTREAL— Envitech Energy , a Quebec-based provider of electric systems, has been awarded a contract to make substations for a Bombardier Transportation project in Saudi Arabia. The contract is for three traction power substations that will be used in Bombardier’s King Abdullah Financial District Monorail project, a 3.6-km INNOVIA Monorail 300 system. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.

MONTRÉAL‑ Canada’s forestry industry has an opportunity to gain competitive global advantage in the global $200‑billion market for bio-products made from trees, says a Forestry Products Association of Canada (FPAC) study.

Tesla Motors recently announced that it has launched a comprehensive strategy to recycle its sports cars’ battery packs throughout Europe. Tesla has delivered more than 1,500 Roadsters to customers in at least 30 countries in Europe, North America and Asia

BURLINGTON— In less than a year, a Burlington, Ont. manufacturer has grown its workforce by almost 35 per cent to meet the growing demand for solar energy

TORONTO ‑Recurrent Energy announced today that it has signed an agreement with Toronto-based Celestica to supply solar modules for projects awarded within the renewable energy Feed-in Tariff (FIT) of the Ontario Power Authority (OPA).

TORONTO— Canada’s oil and gas sector isn’t drilling into the billion-dollar potential in emerging markets, according to a recent analysis by the Scotiabank Group . January’s Scotiabank Commodity Price Index says Canada’s oil sands exports are too US-focused and producers could be reaping higher prices from swelling demand in other economies. West Texas Intermediate oil (WTI) is the standard North American pricing reference for oil