• $50-billion industry,
• employing more than 100,000 workers by 2022.
• Bak estimated that the industry, currently worth $11 billion, has grown by nine percent from 2011 to 2012.

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• Canada dead last in ranking for environmental protection

• Rand describes today's ultimate dilemma as between the rapidly growing clean-technology sector ("clean-tech bulls," as he calls them) -- long-busy innovating tangible ways to cut carbon emissions -- and the world's imminent climate catastrophe ("the climate bear").

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  Canadians produce more garbage than anyone else

   

   

  Conference Board calls Canada an 'environmental laggard'
• Canadians use far too much energy and water, and they produce more garbage per capita than any other country on earth, a report from an influential think-tank says.
• The Conference Board of Canada gave Canada a C grade on Thursday and ranked it in 15th place among 17 developed nations studied across a host of environmental-efficiency metrics.
• Poor marks on garbage, water
• The Conference Board measured air pollution, garbage production, energy consumption, water usage and many other factors across 17 developed economies around the world.

• While Canada earned a few A grades in categories such as water quality, endangered species and the use of forest resources, overall the country scored a D average.

  The 15th-place ranking put Canada only ahead of the U.S. and Australia in the ranking.

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