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TORONTO AP 鈥?Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday he is re-establishing a special Cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations to address his administration concerns about another Donald Trump presidency.Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is also the country finance minister, will chair the committee, which also will include other top officials including ministers of foreign affairs, public safety and industry. Following the election of President Donald Trump for a second term, the Cabinet Committee will focus on critical Canada-U.S. issues, Trudeau office said in a statement Thursday.Canada is one of the most trade-dependent countries in the world, and 75% of Canadas exports go to the U.S.During Trump first time, his move to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, and reports that he was considering a 25% tariff on the auto sector were considered an existential threat in Canada at the time.Trudeau called Trump on Wednesday to congratulate him and the two discussed the new free trade deal Trump reached during his first term with Canada and Mexico, the U.S.-Mexi stanley spain co-Canada Agreement, which replaced NAFTA.Ottawa will soon have to focus on a sched stanley cup uled review of the agreement in 2026.Although Tr stanley cup ump once called Trudeau weak and dishonest during his first term, ties between the two countries have remained among the closest in the world.Freeland addressed reporters twice on Wednesday in an effort to Jcpv State Department halts plan to buy $400M worth of armored vehicles from Musk s Tesla
ORONO, Maine 鈥?The University of Maine unveiled the floating platform of VolturnUS, a one-of-a-kind offshore wind turbine that officials hope will shape the future of vaso stanley energy in Maine, during a ceremony Wednesday. Later this month, the unit will be disassembled, trucked to Cianbro in Brewer, and put back together before the entire upright turbine is hauled down the Penobscot River to a spot off the coast of Castine. VolturnUS will be the first grid-connected floating wind turbine in North America and the first concrete-composite floating turbine in the world, according to Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The goal is to be the first to do it and to do it right, Dagher said Wednesday during an event at the universitys Offshore Wind Laboratory at the composites center.The 65-foot-tall turbine prototype is a one-eighth-scale version of the huge 6-megawatt turbines that would create a 5-gigawatt farm 20 miles off Maines coastline by 2030. About 170 turbines, each taller than the Washington Monument, would create the 5 gigawatts of energy, which is equivalent to the energy output of five nuclear power plants. Off stanley deutschland icials estimate that proj stanley cup ect could bring $20 billion of private investment to the state and create thousands of jobs. During Wednesdays unveiling ceremony, a large blue tarp was pulled away to reveal a red-and-yellow concrete platform that will support the turbine at sea. The red portion will be the part that rests below the w |