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Stu Campana is an international environmental consultant, with expertise in water, energy and waste management. He is the Water Team Leader with Ecology Ottawa, has a master’s in Environment and Resource Management and writes the A\J Renewable Energy blog. Follow him on Twitter: @StuCampana.

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YOU JUST TOOK A WATER BALLOON TO THE FACE. The good news is that, as a Canadian, you are rarely so pressed to think about the quality and abundance of...

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Wind Turbine near a town
Why I Want a Wind Farm in My Backyard
GE’s new Space Frame wind tower is lighter, taller and easier to transport than previous turbines. It also represents the wind industry’s latest effort to remove itself from human view....
Heavy truck traffic in Towanda PA as a result of Marcellus Shale natural gas fra
The Latest Hidden Cost of Fracking
“[The road] looked like it’d been hit by a bomb,” said Jim Webster, Commissioner of Parker County, Texas. “[The road] looked like it’d been hit by a bomb,” said Jim Webster, Commissioner...
Edmonton waste-to-biofuel plant. From City of Edmonton YouTube video.
The Sexy Topic of Converting Waste to Biofuel
In a recent interview, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson called waste management a “sexy” topic for Edmontonians.Hey, we’re all a little loopy after such a long winter. In a recent interview,...
Midnight Sun VII, University of Waterloo
Finally, a Solar Car That Doesn’t Look Like a Spaceship
The cutting edge in solar cars is a vehicle that looks like something your dad might drive every day on his way to the paperwork bureaucracy factory.In the early days...
Dutch Disease: extractive industries drive currency up, manufacturing declines.
Is Canada Suffering from Dutch Disease?
Everyone agrees that Canada has a lot of oil and that those oil resources are worth a lot of money. Yet, as a large, diverse and well-educated country, there’s no...
No windmills here
Ontario’s Wind Problem: Accepting the Blame
Last month in Goderich, Ontario, hundreds of protestors demonstrated outside the local courthouse during injunction deliberations for the proposed K2 Wind Power Project. Last month in Goderich, Ontario, hundreds of...
Solar panel
Renewables Aren’t Perfect, and That’s Okay
Sometime during the next 100 years or so, the world is going to run out of platinum. If we haven’t found a replacement, production of new jewelry, electrodes, anticancer drugs...
Arctic tundra, Victoria Island, Nunavut.
Saving the Arctic: Why I Chased a Tent Across the Tundra
On my first day in the Arctic, I woke up and discovered I had murdered a loon. On my first day in the Arctic, I woke up and discovered I...
batteries Stu Campana A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
Battery Horizon
During the Ontario ice storm of 1998, millions of people were left without power for weeks in the middle of January. Since then, questions have been raised about how so...
Desalination Spain Jordan A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
The Renewables & Desalination Dilemma
It’s an interesting fact that drinking seawater will only make you thirstier, because of all the salt. This is one of several reasons why being lost at sea would be...