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On the Ground: Environmental Intelligence

On the Ground: Environmental Intelligence

著者： Andrew Nuttall
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On the Ground is a weekly Canadian environmental intelligence podcast delivering in-depth, non-partisan coverage of the country's most pressing environmental issues. It is independently produced, verified-source-driven, and free from ideological spin, making it a trusted resource for Canadians who want honest, nuanced environmental journalism. Complete bibliographies provided.2026 博物学 社会科学 科学 自然・生態学
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  • 016 - Canada's Disconnected Lithium Supply Chain

    016 - Canada's Disconnected Lithium Supply Chain
    2026/10/16
    If nearly every link in the battery supply chain already exists somewhere in Canada, why does our lithium keep leaving the country? Canada has mines and wells with huge, known, quanitities of lithium. We have had the technology and the skills to pull it out out of the ground. We know how to refine it, build battery cells, store power on the grid, and even shred old batteries for recycling. Yet every link in our supply chain seems to end at a loading dock, bound for somewhere else. If you look at where lithium means business across the country, you'll find vanishing factories, a refinery tucked among plumbing suppliers, and a battery giant on the shore of Lake Ontario. Some of it works. Some of it cost taxpayers dearly. But most of it could be running, if the supply chain was integrated. In this episode, we trace Canadian lithium from brine to battery, link by link, to find out where the chain breaks. And we discuss the pattern first observed by a respected economic historian who described it long before anyone had heard of a lithium battery. Bibliography Peer-Reviewed Studies Blake et al., Applied Geochemistry 208 (2026). Investigating reservoir-scale heterogeneity in Li-enriched oil field brines of the Devonian Leduc and Nisku formations.Keiner et al., Journal of Energy Storage 146 (2026). Sodium-ion battery cost projections and their impact on the global energy system transition until 2050.Wesselkaemper et al., Nature Communications 17, 253 (2026). Primary material supply configurations and domestic recycling for cost-effective battery material production in the US. Government and Regulatory Canada Gazette, Part I. Regulations Repealing the Electric Vehicle Availability Standard, with Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement. August 15, 2026.Natural Resources Canada. Government of Canada supports Mangrove Lithium's next step in building a made-in-Canada battery supply chain. April 2026.Impact Assessment Agency of Canada. Registry, project 90628: Napanee Generating Station Expansion. Response of July 15, 2026.Alberta Geological Survey. Information Series 159. March 2026. Full report: PDF.Government of Alberta. Alberta Major Projects: E3 Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) Demonstration Plant.U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security. Commerce finalizes rule to secure connected vehicle supply chains from foreign adversary threats. January 2025. Geological and Technical References Saskatchewan Geological Survey (Jensen), GeoConvention 2018. Results from a brine sampling project.GeoConvention 2024. In-situ water-rock interactions as the source of lithium in brines (abstract).Geological Survey of Canada. Past Lives: Chronicles of Canadian Paleontology (Leduc reefs, archived).U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1027-G: lithium pegmatites and spodumene.Laurentian University, Mineral Exploration Research Centre. Spodumene.Goldschmidt Conference 2025. Spodumene processing (abstract). Research and Market Analysis International Energy Agency. Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026.BloombergNEF. China drops to second in BloombergNEF's global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking as Canada comes out on top. 2024.BloombergNEF. China regains number one spot in BloombergNEF's global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking. 2025.ATB Financial. The Twenty-Four: Chris Doornbos, E3 Lithium. January 15, 2026. Company Releases and Filings Prairie Lithium (ASX). Binding offtake agreement with Hydro Lithium. April 2, 2026.EMP Metals. EMP Metals receives permits for Project Aurora demonstration plant construction and operation. September 15, 2025.EMP Metals. EMP Metals completes construction of Project Aurora demonstration plant and advances commissioning. August 5, 2026.E3 Lithium. E3 Lithium delivers battery-grade lithium carbonate from its demonstration program to global partners and off-takers.E3 Lithium. E3 Lithium releases Q2 2026 results and advances key strategic milestones. August 21, 2026.E3 Lithium. E3 Lithium provides status update on Clearwater project. September 29, 2026.Elevra Lithium, SEC Form 6-K. Memorandum of understanding with Mangrove Lithium.Elevra Lithium, SEC Form 6-K. Spodumene concentrate agreement with LG Energy Solution. October 2026.LG Energy Solution. LG Energy Solution secures multi-year supply of Canadian spodumene concentrate from Elevra.NextStar Energy. NextStar Energy expands into energy storage: Windsor battery production begins this month. November 3, 2025.Rio Tinto. Update on the Nemaska Lithium Bécancour project. 2026.Rio Tinto, SEC filing. Results release (Nemaska Lithium ownership).Umicore. Umicore shares details on cost saving measures and pauses construction of its battery materials plant in Canada. July 2024.Atura Power. Napanee BESS Phase 2.Atura Power. Napanee BESS Phase 2 public meeting display boards. July 2025.Atura Power. Napanee Generating Station Expansion.Ameresco. Ameresco and Atura Power JV selected to build 250MW/1,000MWh battery energy storage system. Local and Regional News ...
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  • 015 - The Road Who Wouldn't Be

    015 - The Road Who Wouldn't Be
    2026/10/08
    What happens to a road made of ice when the winter turns warm and the customers who pay for it start to disappear? Every winter for more than four decades, crews have built the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road from scratch, roughly 400 kilometres north from Tibbitt Lake, east of Yellowknife, about 85 per cent of it across frozen lakes. In eight to ten weeks, the trucks carry a year's worth of diesel, explosives, tires, food and heavy equipment to the Northwest Territories' diamond mines. Building it costs 20 million dollars or more a season, and the mines have paid because flying the same freight costs more. This fall, the equatorial Pacific is warming fast. Forecasters give better than 90 per cent odds of a very strong El Niño, and federal scientists expect a Canadian winter about two degrees warmer than normal, with the peak in December, the month the road's builders need cold the most. Canada had a rehearsal in the winter of 2023 to 2024. The ice road opened two weeks late, Banff broke a temperature record set in 1931, and the Okanagan went into spring without the snowpack it needed. Across northern Ontario, winter road seasons have shrunk from an average of 77 days to as few as 28 in some places. In Ottawa, all three federal parties debated diesel tax relief scheduled to end just as the trucks would roll north. Scientists have modelled a slow decline for the ice road, with 2°C of global warming as a possible tipping point and no viable seasons by 2080. Markets moved faster. Diavik closed in March, Ekati went into receivership, and Gahcho Kué plans to stop after 2028. On September 16, the joint venture that runs the road announced it would not build one for 2027. In this episode, we follow the ice road from Tibbit Lake, near Yellowknife, through a warm winter's forecast, a trucking company and an airline that depend on it, a Winnipeg firm proposing cargo airships to replace it, and a joint venture that calls its decision a pause, not an ending. Bibliography Local and regional outlets Cabin Radio. Winter road to diamond mines to open end of January.Cabin Radio. Climate change 'threatens viability' of winter road to mines. 2021.Cabin Radio. Air Tindi flight was working on winter road, says TSB. December 2023.Cabin Radio. NWT mines winter road on track to open February 4. January 2025.Cabin Radio. Inside Ekati's insolvency: Here's the full scale of the problem. 2026.Cabin Radio. NWT's diamond mine winter road moves into new, uncertain era. May 15, 2026.Castanet. RDNO pushing for provincial support as Greater Vernon water supply challenges continue. July 2026.CKPG Today, via The Canadian Press. Joint venture of arctic mining companies assisting plane crash victims. December 2023.Manitoba Co-operator. Should we bring back blimps to haul cargo north?. January 16, 2025.Rocky Mountain Outlook. 'Super' El Niño in store for Bow Valley and what that means for ski bums awaiting winter runs. August 21, 2026.Rocky Mountain Outlook. Banff breaks two temperature records. January 2024.Vernon Matters. Above normal temperatures, limited precipitation recorded locally so far this winter. December 28, 2023.Western Producer. VIDEO: Super El Niño in full swing weather and crops analyst says. July 2026.yourkenora.ca. Nishnawbe Aski Nation welcomes additional funding for winter roads. Trade and industry press Mining.com, via Reuters. Canada's mild winter disrupts key ice road to remote Arctic diamond mines. April 2, 2024.Rapaport. Ekati Deposit to Close as Buyers Fail to Step Up. 2026. Government and regulatory sources Environment Canada, Pacific and Yukon Region. Effect of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on British Columbia and Yukon winter weather. Bill Taylor. Report 98-02. March 1998.PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc., Receiver. Arctic Canadian Diamond Company Ltd., and Burgundy Diamonds (Canada) Limited: Status of File. September 15, 2026. Peer-reviewed research Mullan, D. J., I. D. Barr, R. P. Flood, J. M. Galloway, A. M. W. Newton, and G. T. Swindles. Examining the Viability of the World's Busiest Winter Road to Climate Change Using a Process-Based Lake Model. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 102, no. 7 (2021): E1464 to E1480.Shabbar, Amir, Barrie Bonsal, and Madhav Khandekar. Canadian Precipitation Patterns Associated with the Southern Oscillation. Journal of Climate 10 (1997): 3016 to 3027.Song, Jerry, Sarah Sparrow, and David Wallom. The impact of climate change on a large industrial winter road operation in Northern Canada. Cold Regions Science and Technology 248 (2026): 104952. Polling Leger, via The Canadian Press. More Canadians now report being affected by extreme weather, poll suggests. June 17, 2026. Additional figures via CJME. Prediction markets Kalshi. Will 2026 be the hottest year on record?. Prices observed via the SimpleFunctions aggregator on June 8 and October 7, 2026. Federal party materials House of Commons, Hansard #141. Debate on Bill C-38, Canadian Fuel ...
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  • 014 - Canada's Messy Environmental Innovation Cycle

    014 - Canada's Messy Environmental Innovation Cycle
    2026/10/02
    When are environmental solutions obsolete? When is it appropriate to innovate? Every accepted practice was once a risky departure. Some, like a BC small town's $45 roof sprinklers, or a pair of beavers released on an Alberta creek, only become standards after someone paying attention took a risk. Others, like a project that dumped 120 tonnes of iron into the Pacific off Haida Gwaii, reveal the costs of poorly understood science and cavalier attitudes. Proven practices almost always offer transferable knowledge. Sudbury's once barren hills, and the lakes damaged by acid rain in central Canada were both resolved by methods that got tested, measured and repeated until they became the standard, including a market for trading pollution allowances. Most of today's environmental rulebook stands on the shoulders of experiments like these. But more and more, environmental practices and standards are outliving environmental conditions, such as when the northern cod fishery collapsed after years of warnings that went unheeded. Meanwhile, some policies are undermining our effectiveness at gathering important knowledge. A recent parliamentary committee addressed how political criteria for federal research grants and funding for leadership is negatively impacting the quality of Canadian science. In this episode, Andrew follows the evidence from Logan Lake, BC to Darlington, Ontario to reveal key underlying principles that policy-makers need for deciding when to rely on proven practice, when to try something new, and when to switch. Bibliography Government and Regulatory Sources Canada Research Chairs Program. Establishing equity targets for 2021 to 2029.Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Darlington New Nuclear Project.Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Request pursuant to Subsection 12(2) of the General Nuclear Safety and Control Regulations: Darlington NGS, Worker Injuries at the Darlington New Nuclear Project. July 25, 2025.Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Request pursuant to Subsection 12(2) of the General Nuclear Safety and Control Regulations: Darlington Emergency Exercise Unified Command 2025. November 6, 2025.City of Abbotsford. Council supports Sumas Prairie long-term flood mitigation. June 13, 2022.City of Abbotsford. Evacuation Orders issued for parts of Sumas Prairie West and Evacuation Alert issued for Sumas Prairie East. December 10, 2025.City of Greater Sudbury. Regreening Program.Environment and Climate Change Canada. Canada–United States Air Quality Agreement Progress Report 2014, chapter 1.Environment and Climate Change Canada. Reducing acid rain.Environment and Climate Change Canada. Review and Assessment of the Canada–U.S. Air Quality Agreement 2023.FireSmart BC. Logan Lake: A FireSmart Success Story. October 2021.FireSmart BC, BC Wildfire Service and First Nations' Emergency Services Society. Walking with Fire: BC's History of Fire Governance.Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The Government of Canada announces the historic return of the commercial Northern cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador. June 26, 2024.Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Northern cod commercial fishery. Backgrounder, June 2025.Government of Alberta. Human-wildlife conflict: Beavers.Natural Resources Canada. Canada's record-breaking wildfires in 2023: A fiery wake-up call. September 7, 2023.Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Equity, diversity and inclusion.United States Environmental Protection Agency. Acid Rain Program. Legislation and Parliamentary Records Public Service Employment Act, SC 2003, c. 22.House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research. Testimony of Geoff Horsman, September 22, 2025. Via openparliament.ca.House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research. Meeting of September 24, 2025. Via openparliament.ca. Academic Research and Reference Works ABlawg (University of Calgary Faculty of Law). Alberta's Water Sharing 'Agreements'. May 1, 2024.Alberta Environmental Laws 101. Where did these laws come from? A brief history of water law in Alberta.Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics. Geoengineering at the 'edge of the world': exploring perceptions of ocean fertilization through the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation.Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador (Memorial University). Cod Moratorium in Newfoundland and Labrador.Nature Communications. Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada. August 20, 2024.PMC (US National Library of Medicine). Impact of Microplastic Exposure on Human Health: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms, Biomarkers, and Clinical Outcomes. December 2025.River Research and Applications. Beaver dam analogue configurations influence stream and riparian water table dynamics of a degraded spring-fed creek in the Canadian Rockies. 2020.Science of the Total Environment. Liming legacy effects associated with the world's largest soil liming and regreening program in Sudbury,...
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