Category Archives: Environment
N.W.T. ignored in Alberta monitoring suspension despite agreement: leaked emails
EDMONTON — Alberta suspended environmental monitoring for oilsands companies without notifying the Northwest Territories, despite a legally binding agreement to do so. The omission is revealed in a series of emails between the two governments obtained ...
Geoparks in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland earn official UN designations
HALIFAX — Two geological parks in Atlantic Canada have earned special status from the United Nations. The Cliffs of Fundy in Nova Scotia and the Discovery Geopark in eastern Newfoundland were both designated UNESCO Global Geoparks Friday by t...
North Atlantic right whales nearing extinction, international nature body says
OTTAWA — North Atlantic right whales are now considered one step away from complete eradication. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is moving the whales from "endangered" to "critically endangered" on its red list of global species...
Canada joins international group of 22 countries to protect oceans
OTTAWA — Canada has joined an international group of nearly two dozen other countries working to protect the world's oceans. The Global Ocean Alliance, founded by Great Britain last year, seeks to protect 30 per cent of the world's oceans by
Alberta won’t require full environmental assessments for sandpits
EDMONTON — Alberta is moving to change the legal definition of minerals to spare excavators from having to conduct environmental assessments for large sandpits. A court ruling earlier this spring would have forced sandpits for road and other constructi...
Buffet decision shows LNG projects on shaky political, economic ground: report
OTTAWA — Legendary investor Warren Buffett's decision to walk away from a proposed export terminal for liquefied natural gas in Quebec is being held up in a new report as a sign that the LNG sector in Canada and elsewhere
After prior rejections, Alberta announces sandhill crane hunt for this fall
EDMONTON — Alberta has announced there will be a sandhill crane hunting season this fall — a hunt that's been opposed by an environmental group and was previously rejected by the provincial government three times. The province said in a news ...
Mud slide cripples Seymour Arm water system, high water closes some B.C. roads
VICTORIA — High water and wet weather kept much of British Columbia on flood watch Saturday with mudslides, washouts and road closures hitting rural communities. The Columbia Shuswap Regional District says a mudslide caused largely by recent rains wipe...
Dam threatened by water levels in rural Manitoba, some residents evacuated
RIVERS, Man. — More than 80 people have been evacuated from their homes in parts of western Manitoba after record rainfall in the region threatened the structural integrity of a dam. "The dam at Rivers is experiencing a flood of historic
Trans Mountain timeline: A look at key dates in the project’s history
OTTAWA — The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion cleared another legal hurdle Thursday when the Supreme Court of Canada denied leave to appeal to First Nations that argue they were not properly consulted about the project. The decision appears to end leg...
