Category Archives: Environment
‘Living history’: Residents of small N.S. town fight to keep rusty offshore boiler
HALIFAX — Residents of a small town 250 kilometres east of Halifax are fighting to prevent the removal of a hunk of black metal that has been sitting offshore for the past 100 years. “It's just a big, rusty boiler,” Rachel
David Attenborough to address leaders at UN climate summit
LONDON — Veteran British broadcaster David Attenborough has been appointed the “people’s advocate” at the global climate summit this year, where he is expected to address political leaders about the need for urgent action to tackle the “crippling” thre...
David Attenborough to address leaders at UN climate summit
LONDON — Veteran British broadcaster David Attenborough has been appointed the “people’s advocate” at the global climate summit this year, where he is expected to address political leaders about the need for urgent action to tackle the “crippling” thre...
Ten years later: Five things to know about the Slave Lake wildfire
A wildfire burned about one-third of Slave Lake in northern Alberta in May 2011. Nearly 400 homes and businesses, including an apartment complex, were reduced to ash and rubble when fierce winds whipped flames through town with little warning. Here ar...
Parks Canada captive caribou breeding proposal gets OK from scientific review panel
JASPER, Alta. — A last-ditch attempt to save some of Canada's vanishing caribou herds is a step closer after a scientific review panel's approval of a plan to permanently pen some animals and breed them to repopulate other herds. The captive
Ten years later: Former Slave Lake mayor remembers wildfire that burned through town
Karina Pillay remembers everything about the wildfire. She remembers the chaos the day it hit. The fireballs falling around the town's government building. The traffic gridlock as flames blocked the roads. "It was such a life-changing experience," the ...
Indigenous nation opposes jade mining in northwestern B.C.
VANCOUVER — Demand for jade has sparked both a reality TV series set in the remote northwestern corner of British Columbia and opposition from an Indigenous nation over its lack of consent to jade mining in its territory. The Tahltan Nation
Alberta eases security payment burden for oilsands companies
EDMONTON — Alberta is changing how it calculates the payments oilsands mines make to ensure there's enough money to clean up the mess they leave behind. The province says the decision is in reaction to low oil prices last year, which
Alberta eases security payment burden for oilsands companies
EDMONTON — Last year's dive in oil prices has caused Alberta to change how it calculates the payments oilsands mines make to ensure there's enough money to clean up the mess they leave behind. "The interim solution we're putting in place
More endangered right whales spotted in Canadian waters, some fishing areas closed
FREDERICTON — Two more North Atlantic right whales have been spotted in Canadian waters, prompting the first season-long closure of a specific fishing area. Two of the endangered whales were detected on Tuesday by a Fisheries Department aircraft that w...
