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Canadian and German officials pursue dream of cross-oceanic ‘green’ hydrogen trade

Award-winning journalist Karin Finkenzeller writes regularly about the green hydrogen projects proposed in Canada and for the German markets; the article appears in Germany's weekly business magazine WirtschaftsWoche and the Halifax Examiner. In this article, Finkenzeller investigates the Germany-Canada energy and hydrogen partnership, which concluded in 2022, and questions the viability of the green-hydrogen economy without government subsidies.

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Premier Tim Houston backs out of Hamburg hydrogen conference

The Halifax Examiner criticized Tim Houston's Progressive Conservative government's plans for a new "hydrogen innovation program" as “greenwashing” when the government's Law Amendments Committee passed Bill 207, the Electricity Act amendments. The Examiner’s Joan Baxter speaks with experts, including energy coordinator Brenna Walsh at the Ecology Action Centre, who explains, “Though it is encouraging to see the intentions of this government to consider green hydrogen production, we are concerned that this amendment, as written, would open a pathway for other “flavours” [colours] of hydrogen production.”

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