Category Archives: Environment
Edmonton council approves first step for gondola across North Saskatchewan River
EDMONTON — A proposal from a private company to build a gondola across Edmonton's river valley will keep moving forward after city council approved an important step Monday. Council members, in an 8-5 vote, supported a framework for a working relations...
Screen-shared vision: Biden-Trudeau meeting to feature common ground, old irritants
WASHINGTON — Call it the Screen-Shared Summit. Tuesday's bilateral meeting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden — a strictly virtual affair, thanks to COVID-19 — offers hope of a new start for Canada-U. S. relations. It will be the...
‘Trojan Horse:’ Alberta to argue that federal assessment law unconstitutional
Alberta and its allies are in the province's highest court trying to have the federal government's environmental assessment act declared unconstitutional. "The Trojan Horse has now arrived," say arguments submitted to the Alberta Court of Appeal by the...
‘Trojan Horse:’ Alberta to argue in court federal assessment law unconstitutional
Alberta is in court fighting against Ottawa's law on environmental assessment. Arguments in Alberta's Court of Appeal are expected to last all week. The Alberta government calls the Impact Assessment Act, or Bill C-69, a "Trojan Horse" that attempts to...
Report says mandatory ship speeds required to protect right whales in Cabot Strait
OTTAWA — Voluntary speed restrictions in place for vessels passing through the Cabot Strait don't go far enough to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, according to a newly released report. Oceana Canada says an analysis of vessel tracking d...
Critics ask why no details on government plan for parks management
EDMONTON — The Alberta government has yet to release details on how it will "optimize" the province's parks by getting other people to run them. It's been almost a year since the plan was revealed in the budget and Alberta Parks
Kenney says no new taxes as Alberta preps for another tough times pandemic budget
EDMONTON — On Thursday it’s budget day in Alberta, a time that will cruelly and ironically remind residents that last year’s projected eye-popping $6.8-billion deficit was actually the good old days. Since then, that deficit has tripled to $21 billion ...
Deep freeze, power crisis enveloping Texas sparks fresh climate-change falsehoods
WASHINGTON — The catastrophic cold snap that paralyzed the electrical grid in Texas has opened up a new front in the age-old battle between green-energy champions and their fossil-fuel rivals. One side sees the chance to build a new, fortified and
Deep freeze, power crisis enveloping Texas sparks fresh climate-change falsehoods
WASHINGTON — The catastrophic cold snap that paralyzed the electrical grid in Texas has opened up a new front in the age-old battle between green-energy champions and their fossil-fuel rivals. One side sees the chance to build a new, fortified and
Federal plans to close fish farms stir emotions on Vancouver Island
VICTORIA — As a commercial fisherman and salmon farmer, James Walkus says he sees the merits of both industries and he's convinced the two can coexist. The 81-year-old Indigenous leader and entrepreneur from Port Hardy said wild salmon has provided him...
