Thoughts on BC Politics and More

... In the months following the November 2023 announcement, the New Democrats would cite the Maple Ridge plant again and again as evidence that they were putting the province on the “cutting edge” of battery technology. But there were no media releases, nor any cause for victory laps with this week’s news that E-Moli had hit pause on the Maple Ridge plant. “$1 billion lithium-ion battery factory on hold,” read the headline on the front page of The Vancouver Sun on Wednesday ... CLICK HERE for the full story

Governments have already invested tens of billions into two EV battery manufacturing plants in southwestern Ontario. However, they come with the environmental dilemma of what to do with the millions of EV batteries when they reach the end of their life. "The rules are non-existent," said Mark Winfield, a professor at York University in Toronto and co-chair of the school's Sustainable Energy Initiative. "There is nothing as we talk to agencies on both sides of the border, the federal, provincial, state levels ... CLICK HERE for the full story