Laura Chapin

Jul 29, 2024 | cbc.ca | Laura Chapin

PEI·NewAn resident in Eastern Kings is worried the P.E.I. government will continue with its wind farm expansion plans, despite finding a possible wetland along an access route to the development. Province stops work on access road to Eastern Kings development until another survey can be doneLaura Chapin · CBC News · Posted: Jul 29, 2024 11:50 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes agoThis map shows the location of delineated wetland, highlighted in yellow, along the access road, highlighted in pink.

Jun 25, 2024 | mdpi.com | Juan Pillajo |Laura Chapin |Michelle Jones |Evili Marai Martins

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Feb 20, 2024 | treefrogcreative.ca | Laura Chapin |Linda Coady |Stephane Renou |Kevin Mason

Documents that CBC News P.E.I. received through Freedom of Information show a large amount of the wood being used to heat more than 40 provincial buildings has come from forests that were cleared to become housing or farmland. …One report in the documents revealed that 86 per cent of the wood one contractor used between 2015 and 2018 came from land conversion — forests cleared for farmland or for housing. That concerns Gary Schneider, manager of the MacPhail Woods Ecological Project.

Jan 24, 2024 | canadianbiomassmagazine.ca | Laura Chapin |Haley Nagasaki

The mayor of Kensington is frustrated that a $150-million renewable diesel plant proposed for the town’s industrial park will not happen, and he is blaming the provincial government. Rowan Caseley says SustainAgro Ltd. is now looking at building a plant in Thunder Bay, Ont., or Debert, N.S., instead. “What was wrong with the process here?

Jul 21, 2023 | cbc.ca | Laura Chapin |Carolyn Ryan

Prince Edward Islanders are paying more under the new federal clean fuel regulations in part because ethanol isn't mixed into the gasoline products generally sold in the province, a Summerside energy consultant says. Jay Mackay said that kind of lower-carbon fuel reduces the environmental footprint of gas-powered vehicles, and is exactly the kind of product the new rules that came into effect on July 1 were designed to promote, by making them relatively cheaper to buy.