Lower platinum prices bring relief to Ballard Power
Monday, December 15th, 2008
When John Sheridan decided back in February 2006 to stay on as the permanent chief executive of Ballard Power, who would have guessed that one of his biggest concerns would end up being the price of platinum? Back then, platinum was just a bit over $1,000 (U.S.) per ounce. By mid-2007 it had jumped to $1,300 per ounce. Then it really got bad, soaring to more than $2,300 an ounce in the 12 months that followed. (more…)

Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.