News on Carbon Footprint from Canada

Nutrien's 2024 Sustainability Report
March 31, 2025
Canadian Fertilizer company Nutrien Releases 2024 Sustainability Report
Canadian Fertilizer company Nutrien Ltd. has released its 2024 Sustainability Report, detailing company performance and providing an update on its sustainability initiatives.
Genesis Fertilizers
November 07, 2024
Genesis Fertilizers expands partnerships with CARBONCO and Whitecap to develop a proposed low carbon-intensity fertilizer plant
Genesis Fertilizers Limited Partnership has solidified two strategic partnerships to further its vision of developing a low carbon-intensity fertilizer production facility.
Simplot's Portage la Prairie Plant
February 13, 2024
Simplot Fertilizer and Potato Processing Plants Recognized for Energy Efficiency
A sustainable business. A healthy planet. A responsibility to all. Purposeful actions that benefit our world and the bottom line ensure successful operations at Simplot now and well into the future.
Timber river couple Jonathan Kummer and Emily Ryan.
November 05, 2021
Nova Scotia Couple Heeds the Call of The Family Farm, Sets Down New Brunswick Roots
The Covid-19 pandemic moment was a 'now or never' moment for Jonathan Kummer and Emily Ryan. The couple was living well and working in Halifax with an organizational design firm called Symplicity Design – until Covid-19 happened.
Max Koeune, President and Chief Executive Officer of McCain Foods Limited
June 13, 2021
McCain Foods Commitment will Help Limit Global Warming to 1.5°C
McCain Foods' commitment to cut in half greenhouse gas emissions across all of its global operations by the end of the decade has been verified to align with efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
A modified, one-pass seeder and hilling system from Spudnik was key to Berry’s foray into direct-seeded potatoes (Courtesy: Alexis Stockford)
January 30, 2021
Low tillage potato trial showed no impact on yield and quality
The amount and quality of the potatoes coming off Chad Berry’s field last fall weren’t that much different from one side to the other, but one half came with a lot less tillage.
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Canadian potato grower, shipper and packer Thomas Fresh launches a unique line of Alberta grown potatoes
September 19, 2019
Thomas Fresh launches a line of Alberta grown potatoes
Canadian potato grower, shipper and packer Thomas Fresh launches a unique line of Alberta grown potatoes
Darren Cash, manager of safety and environmental operations at Cavendish Farms, New Annan explains how converting potato material not suitable for french fries into biogas, reduced the plant's dependency on fuel oil by 30 per cent.
December 29, 2018
Biogas from potato waste cuts greenhouse gas emissions Cavendish Farms French Fry Plant
Potato Processor Cavendish Farms in New Annan, Prince Edward Island, turns potato material not suitable for french fries into biogas, reducing the plant's dependency on fuel oil by 30 per cent.
ExistingTOMRA steam peeling solution at Cavendish Farms, New Annan on Prince Edward Island
October 23, 2018
Cavendish Farms selects TOMRA's Eco Steam Peeler for its potato processing plant in Alberta
Cavendish Farms, one of the larger potato processors producing frozen french fries in North America, is equipping its new, state-of-the-art production facility in Lethbridge, Alberta with TOMRA’s Eco steam peelers.
Breakdown of the carbon footprint of potatoes - grown in Europe in 2016, for processing (Courtesy: Lamb Weston Meijer)
November 21, 2017
Research: How can we increase fertilizer efficiency?
The government of Canada last week announced a $1.8 million investment in a research project at the University of British Columbia that includes the development of beneficial management practices for increasing the efficiency of fertilizer use in potatoes.
The biogas facility at Naturally Homegrown Foods, the maker of Hardbite potato chips
January 23, 2014
Hardbite Potato Chips initiates Waste Reduction Program
The manufacturer of Hardbite Potato Chips announced today that it has initiated an aggressive waste reduction and sustainability initiative with its manufacturing operation. The company has partnered with Fraser Valley Biogas, and FortisBC to recycle organic waste from the company’s food processing plant into a renewable natural gas.
Survey Shows Canadians' Support for Their Local Farmers
August 07, 2013
Survey Shows Canadians' Support for Their Local Farmers
BMO released the results of a survey which found that supporting regional economies, farmers and jobs, along with fresh food and taste, all trump the cost of food for people choosing to buy local.
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