The Government of Ontario has been very active in pushing a revolution in electric power in the province. In 2004 as part of Ontario’s Smart Metering Initiative, the Ontario Government legislated that all electric power […]
In January 2010, Canada formally notified the United Nations that in line with the Copenhagen Accord Canada committed to reducing its carbon emissions by 17 per cent by 2020 from 2005 levels. At that time […]
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has approved a $4.9 billion plan to complete a nuclear unit at its Bellefonte site, near Hollywood, Alabama. The plant is about 55% complete and is expected to go into […]
One of the causes of the massive problems at Fukushima Daichi after the magnitude 9 earthquake earlier this year was loss of offsite power, which resulted in loss of cooling function and to partial meltdown […]
Yesterday shareholders of Duke Energy Corp. and Progress Energy Inc. separately approved the proposed merger of the two utilities to form the largest electric power utility in the US with 7.1 million electricity customers in […]
As I have blogged recently, advanced economies are facing a shortage of skilled labour. This is partly the result of an aging workforce, but also results from decreasing enrollment in technical courses at the high […]
GoGeomatics met with Jenn White a photogrammetry and cartographic specialist to talk about her job hunt and her career. Jenn has worked has worked for the federal government in Ottawa and for industry in the prairies.
Jenn attended the University of Manitoba, where she got a B.A. Advanced with a Major in Geography. In her second year of studies, she took a cartography course and it was from that course, that she became passionate about working with and creating maps. Find out more about Jenn White, a Photogrammetry and Cartographic specialist. […]
I have blogged in the past about some of the very few cities in the world where you can find all the underground infrastructure in a single database. The business benenfits of a common underground […]