Category Archives: Environment
Ford defends use of development tool as concern mounts over fast-tracked projects
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford defended his government's use of a controversial land planning tool on Wednesday amid mounting concerns it was being used to green-light developments without proper environmental consultations. The mechanism known a...
Ottawa promises $40M in carbon tax cash to upgrade 172 Ontario schools
The federal government will spend more than $40 million of carbon tax revenue to make Ontario schools more energy efficient, the environment minister announced Wednesday. The money will go to 172 schools across the province, funding projects such as r...
Alberta environment minister’s constituents concerned over coal-mining
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE, Alta. — A municipal council in Alberta Environment Minister Jason Nixon's constituency is the latest in a growing number of communities expressing concern about the province's plan to expand coal mining in the Rocky Mountains. Cle...
Ottawa won’t set new deadline for providing clean water in First Nations communities
OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Canada won't set a deadline for lifting all remaining long-term drinking-water advisories in First Nations communities, but it will create a website to provide estimated completion dates for each one that remains. Indigenou...
B.C. conservation officers find invasive mussel in aquarium moss in retail stores
VICTORIA — For years, British Columbia conservation officers have been checking boats coming into the province for invasive zebra mussels, but now it turns out they're coming through local pet stores. The B.C. government says conservation officers ins...
Northwest Territories sees spike in illegal caribou hunting along ice roads
YELLOWKNIFE — Officials in the Northwest Territories say hunters are illegally killing caribou in vulnerable herds along the territory's ice roads. Earl Evans, chairman of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board, says it's the worst he ha...
First Nations say Alberta review of coal project inadequate, seek federal involvement
EDMONTON — Two of southern Alberta's largest First Nations have asked the federal government to step into an environmental review of a coal mine proposed for the Rocky Mountains. In a letter to federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, the Siksi...
Alberta’s Toews says final bill on defunct Keystone XL not ‘materially’ above $1.3B
EDMONTON — Alberta’s finance minister says taxpayers won’t be on the hook for much more beyond $1.3 billion already committed to the defunct Keystone XL oil pipeline. “Our total exposure is just under $1.3 billion. It’s not expected to increase materia...
‘Truth to power:’ Lab was not enough for renowned scientist David Schindler
EDMONTON — His research in the lab and the field was published in some of the world's top journals, but that was never enough for David Schindler, who died Thursday at age 80. "The importance of David Schindler was his ability
Inuit group’s board says no to proposed expansion of Nunavut iron ore mine
IQALUIT, Nunavut — An organization that represents Inuit in Nunavut's Baffin Island region says it will not back a proposed expansion of an iron ore mine near Pond Inlet. The Qikiqtani Inuit Association's board of directors voted late Friday not to
