Seeing green

It’s well into Sunday afternoon by the time Jonathan Rhone finally gets a spare minute to take a media call.

These are hectic days for the president and CEO of Vancouver-based Nexterra Energy Corp. – a “clean-tech” firm whose unique gasification technology could soon heat universities across the U.S. while also converting beetle-kill wood waste into clean-burning gas to fuel power plants throughout Northern B.C. more...

Tough cell

With dreams of fuel-cell cars fast fading, local technology companies are looking for more profitable applications: cow pies and black gold more...

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