Category Archives: Environment
Federal government unveils rules for $750-million emissions reduction fund
Oil and gas companies that use federal cash to help cut methane emissions from their operations won't have to repay every penny if they eliminate the methane emissions entirely. Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan unveiled rules for the $750-mill...
Federal government unveils rules for $750-million emissions reduction fund
OTTAWA — Oil and gas companies that use federal cash to help cut methane emissions from their operations won't have to repay every penny if they eliminate the methane emissions entirely. Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan unveiled rules for the ...
City of Moncton looking to use flashing lights to solve its goose problem
Moncton, N.B., has a goose poop problem, and the city's director of parks says he may need strobe lights to solve it. Dan Hicks says the Canada goose population around Jones Lake and nearby Centennial Park increases every summer, and the
More pandemics coming if environmental issues not dealt with: report
An international group of scientists has concluded pandemic problems are just starting unless the world moves to deal with the issues creating them. "The factors driving pandemics are human activities — unsustainable growth in livestock production, def...
A Biden presidency could mean good news for Canadian environment policy: observers
OTTAWA — The day after Americans go to the polls to choose their next president, the United States will become the first and only country in the world to withdraw from the Paris climate change pact.Whether that withdrawal becomes permanent
Inquiry into Alberta oil and gas critics extended to Jan. 31, with no new money
EDMONTON — A public inquiry into who is funding environmental opposition to Alberta's oil and gas industry has been granted an extension until the end of January. Alberta's United Conservative government contends foreign interests have long been bankro...
Inquiry into Alberta oil and gas critics extended to Jan. 31, with no new money
EDMONTON — A public inquiry into who is funding environmental opposition to Alberta's oil and gas industry has been granted an extension until the end of January. Alberta's United Conservative government contends foreign interests have long been bankro...
Focus on infrastructure, involve community to fix reserve water issues: observers
The evacuation of a remote Ontario First Nation over the latest development in a decades-long water crisis has highlighted the need to focus on reserve water infrastructure systems as a whole and involve community members in managing them, observers sa...
Call for action as U.S. reports sharp drop in North Atlantic right whale population
HALIFAX — A conservation group is calling on the Canadian and U.S. governments to take action to protect North Atlantic right whales after new data revealed a sharp decline in the animal's population. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr...
Transport Canada’s dangerous-goods registry has outdated, missing data: audit
OTTAWA — Transport Canada isn't always following up when it finds safety violations in the movement of dangerous goods and still doesn’t have the full picture of the companies and locations it is supposed to be monitoring, Canada's interim environment
