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Major Reports
Atomic Advantage: Canada’s generational opportunity in a new Nuclear Age
Canada faces three credible, and not mutually exclusive, nuclear futures.
Mine & Refine: Bridging Canada’s Critical Minerals Capital Gap
Five measures Canada can take to resolve its critical minerals capital crunch
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Articles
What the Canada-Alberta methane deal means for businesses
And how it could prove to be consequential for the Canada’s climate ambitions
Critical Minerals Processing: The West’s refining challenge and the technologies closing the gap
What you need to know about the West’s struggle to break China’s dominant role in rare-earth elements refining
Energy Shock: 8 charts that explain the global oil and gas fallout
Key trends emerging from global energy volatility
Critical Conversations: Seven takeaways from PDAC
The industry is enthusiastic, the government supportive, but there is a long way to go to realize Canada’s mining potential.
Geothermal Energy Surges: Canada’s potential in a promising baseload power source
Drilling down on Canada’s geothermal opportunity
Heavy oil market heats up
An American plan to revive Venezuelan oil has raised concerns that Canada’s dominance in U.S. crude markets could start to erode
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