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Canadian Explosives Research Laboratory

Natural Elements presents a portrait of Natural Resources Canada's (NRCan) Canadian Explosives Research Laboratory.

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Dollars to $ense Energy Management Workshops

The Dollars to $ense Energy Management Workshops put on by our Office of Energy Efficiency(OEE) provide hands-on training to people involved in identifying, planning, monitoring or financing energy efficiency projects for industrial, commercial and institutional facilities.

Complete our Survey

The Columbia Icefield rendered in 2000 by superimposing a Landsat image onto a digital elevation model derived from the Space Shuttle Radar. The yellow area is the approximate former extent of the icefield (c. 1840). The summit of the icefield, Snow Dome, is the hydrological apex of western North America, from which water flows into three oceans, the Pacific via the Columbia River, the Atlantic via the Nelson/Saskatchewan River system and the Arctic via the Mackenzie/Athabasca River system.

Tracking the Melting Columbia Icefield

Glaciologists at Natural Resources Canada conducts surveillance of the Columbia Icefield and studies the rates of its changes, the reasons for them and their impacts.

Solar thermal panels on garage rooftops (foreground) and solar domestic hot water panels on the roof of each home.

Solar Energy Community in Alberta Leads the Way

Drake Landing Solar Community project is the first large-scale seasonal storage system in the world to deliver 80 percent of its community’s space heating requirements from solar energy.

Launching the AUV on its maiden voyage in the Arctic

Canadian Remote-Controlled Arctic Research Sub Breaks Records

Canada’s newest and most sophisticated autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) will help to collect data to be used in support of Canada’s submission to define the outer boundary of our extended continental shelf.