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JUNE 14, 2022

bp has agreed to sell its 50% interest in the Sunrise oil sands project in Alberta, Canada, to Calgary-based Cenovus Energy, the other owner of the Sunrise project. As part of the deal, bp is acquiring Cenovus’s interest in the Bay du Nord project in Eastern Canada, adding to its sizeable acreage position offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

and Canada after several years of declining sales, ending the run of its most affordable model. To be fair, the Renegade was launched in 2015, and sales peaked just a year later. Maybe not the most impactful or exciting era, but the end, nonetheless. Jeep is killing the Renegade in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Ford Motor Company’s Oakville Assembly plant in Canada now sends no operational waste-to-landfill, an achievement that gives Ford Motor Company the distinction of becoming landfill-free at all its manufacturing facilities in Canada. Oakville Assembly is Ford’s largest manufacturing plant in Canada standing at close to 5.5

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JUNE 18, 2016

The Government of Canada has published proposed Locomotive Emissions Regulations in the Canada Gazette, Part I. This marks Canada’s first regulation of air pollutant emissions from locomotives. The transportation sector in Canada generated 56.0% The transportation sector in Canada generated 56.0% 2015 or later.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Fuel taxes in the United States in 2015 accounted for 19% of the price of a gallon of gasoline, down from just under 30% in 1990, according to figures compiled by the US Department of Energy (DOE). By comparison, in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, taxes accounted for more than half of the total price for both 1990 and 2015.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Air Canada is participating in the Civil Aviation Alternate Fuel Contrail and Emissions Research project ( CAAFCER ), a research project led by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to test the environmental benefits of biofuel use on contrails. In 2016 Air Canada continued taking delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

The Canadian Minister of Transport Lisa Raitt announced a suite of amendments to Canada’s Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDGR), including a ban on transporting lithium metal batteries as cargo on passenger flights in Canada. The Canadian prohibition comes into effect on 1 January 2015, to comply with the ICAO ban.

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MARCH 9, 2014

Opel is planning to introduce OnStar across its passenger car range in selected European markets beginning in 2015. million customers in the US, Canada, China, and Mexico already use OnStar connected services. More than 6.5

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Government of Canada is investing up to $1.9 million from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) in Vancouver-based Nano One to support the development of advanced battery technology for electric vehicles. ASIP was created as part of the Canadian Federal Government’s Economic Action Plan 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The Government of Canada is opening its own investigation into the Volkswagen Group’s use of a software defeat device to circumvent EPA standards for NO x. Canada’s emissions standards are in alignment with EPA’s. After careful assessment of the known facts, Environment Canada has opened an investigation into this matter.

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DECEMBER 2, 2015

In remarks to the Economic Club in Ottawa, GM Canada president and managing director Steve Carlisle confirmed that its Canadian Engineering Center in Oshawa, Ontario, has been awarded a mandate to play a leading role in the build of autonomous driving vehicles. GM’s autonomous technology will bring the vehicle to its destination and park it.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Oil production growth from the United States, Brazil, Canada and Norway can keep the world well supplied, more than meeting global oil demand growth through 2020, but more investment will be needed to boost output after that, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual report on oil markets.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Canada’s Minister of Transport, Lisa Raitt, introduced legislation in the House of Commons that will enhance railway safety and make the rail industry and crude oil shippers more accountable. The new Safe and Accountable Rail Act proposes amendments to the Canada Transportation Act and Railway Safety Act.

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MARCH 28, 2016

Global plug-in light duty vehicle (PEV) sales increased by about 80% in 2015 to 565,668 units, according to figures compiled by Argonne National Laboratory and posted by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Global plug-in light vehicle sales, 2011-2015. Source: EIA; data compiled by Argonne National Laboratory.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Honda continued the expansion of its manufacturing operations in North America with the production start of the redesigned 2015 Honda Fit at a new, automobile plant of Honda de Mexico, S.A. In addition to the 2015 Honda Fit, the plant will begin production late this year of an all-new compact SUV. million units.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Unfortunately, it''s a deal only available to Canadian buyers--because the 2015 Nissan Micra is being offered just in that country, not in the United States. A fuel-efficient five-door hatchback a little smaller than a subcompact--for less than $10,000? That sounds like a pretty good deal.

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JANUARY 9, 2015

2015 forecast share by region. In its latest Global Auto Report , Scotiabank forecasts record global car sales in 2015, with the total market advancing 4% over 2014, reaching more than 74 million units. Global growth will mainly be driven by China, where Scotiabank expects auto demand to grow 7% in 2015 to 19.36 million to 17.0

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AUGUST 21, 2011

Environment Canada released the text of the proposed regulations to reduce emissions from the coal-fired electricity sector. Canada’s average carbon intensity for power generation in 2008, according to Environment Canada, was 200 tonnes/GWh. The baseline carbon intensity metric is an average 375 tonnes CO 2.

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Canada plans to end the sale of fossil-burners by 2035, and policymakers are looking to the Scandinavian country for answers to the many questions about what it will take to go fully electric. “The The anti-EV crowd cites these as deal-killers, but Norway provides a model for how Canada can meet them.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Proposed oil sands monitoring by 2015. The Government of Canada and Government of Alberta unveiled “The Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring” in a partnership to improve environmental monitoring in the oil sands region with a program that will sample more sites for more substances more frequently.

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JULY 16, 2015

New work by a team at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada has found that more than one-third of Canadian buyers want a plug-in vehicle (PEV), with the majority of those (89—93%) wanting a plug-in hybrid rather than a pure electric vehicle. Impact of constraints on PEV sales in British Columbia, 2020. Source: “Electrifying Vehicles”.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The Chevy Volt bolted to an early lead in Canada''s 2015 plug-in electric vehicle sales, with 71 sales. That''s nearly double the Nissan Leaf''s January total of 36. We''ll see if the Volt can sustain this lead, as the Leaf outsold it by a margin of 393 to 372 during the last four months of 2014. DON''T MISS: U.S.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

We''re on the ground at the 2015 Washington Auto Show today, and so apologize for the slower pace of story publishing. In the meantime, we''ve got news that the 2015 Chevrolet Spark EV electric car will be sold in Maryland, Japan''s hydrogen plans ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics, and Canada gets its.'

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

IHS Automotive forecasts global automotive sales for 2015 to reach 88.6 For the APAC region in 2015, IHS forecasts that China’s economic growth will decelerate further, to 6.5% However, IHS Automotive analysts still expect light vehicle sales in China to grow by 7% in 2015 to 25.2 million, an increase of 2.4% North America.

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MARCH 29, 2011

Pike Research forecasts that global sales volumes of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) (plug-in hybrid electric and battery-electric vehicles) will cross the 1 million unit threshold for the first time by 2015. In those markets, plug-in hybrids will represent 71% of all electric vehicle sales in 2015.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The new model helped Chevrolet sell 203 Volts in Canada in October, well above the 126 sold in September and good enough for its third sales crown in four months. During the same month in which a second-generation Trudeau won the Canadian election, the second-generation Chevy Volt took the plug-in electric vehicle sales crown.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Chevy sold 126 first-generation Volts in Canada in September, down slightly from August's 167, but still its fourth consecutive triple-digit.

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JUNE 30, 2021

A division of Rush Enterprises, the company officially launched in 2015 and is a vertically integrated provider of fuel system solutions, featuring engineering, design and manufacturing processes, complete system installation capabilities and a comprehensive sales, service and support network.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

The Chevrolet Volt sold 150 units in Canada in July, by far its best showing this year. Volume was up both from June's 120 sales, and year-over-year from last July's 132 customers.

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MAY 26, 2023

Capital expenditures for oil sands production in 2022 reached their highest levels since 2015 and could rise further this year. Step-out optimizations are a relatively new phenomenon and include, as the name suggests, stepping out from existing operational areas into new high quality adjacent lands.

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APRIL 6, 2015

As expected, the Tesla Model S was a “three-peat” plug-in electric vehicle sales champion in Canada back in February, with its 48 sales comfortably exceeding those of the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf at 38 apiece. Green Canada New car sales plug-in cars sales'

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JUNE 4, 2015

Fully 167 Tesla Model S electric luxury sedans were registered in Canada that month, outpacing the 127 Leafs Nissan delivered. Last month, we assumed that Nissan would edge Tesla during April in Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales. Wow, were we wrong!

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MAY 8, 2017

About 756,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) were sold in the world in 2016, with 95% of those sales in China, Europe, the United States, Japan, and Canada, according to figures compiled by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Plug-in vehicle sales by vehicle type, 2015 and 2016. China alone accounted for 42% of sales (316,800 units).

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Founded in 2012 in Riverside, Missouri, Orange EV in 2015 was the country’s first manufacturer to deploy 100% electric Class 8 vehicles commercially. Orange EV trucks save companies money, are safer, 10x more reliable, and higher-rated by drivers and managers versus their diesel predecessors.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

The agreement aims to help finance the commissioning of 20 fast charging sites for the Electric Circuit in 2015, with five more planned for in 2016. The Electric Circuit is Canada and Québec’s first public charging network. In under 30 minutes a fully depleted Nissan LEAF battery can be charged to 80%. Lévis (Highway 20).

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JULY 13, 2015

Factoring in likely June sales volume from Tesla and others, it's likely that about 2,500 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in Canada in the first half of 2015. This implies sales are running about level with the roughly 5,000 plug-ins sold in the country last year.

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APRIL 17, 2012

an independent Rosneft subsidiary, acquired 30% of ExxonMobil’s stake in the Harmattan acreage in the Cardium formation of the Western Canada Basin in Alberta, Canada. Drilling of the first exploration well is planned for 2014-2015. In addition, RN Cardium Oil Inc.,

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