Category Archives: Environment
New study finds wolf culls will not save endangered caribou in Western Canada
VANCOUVER — A government-sponsored wolf kill in Western Canada has had "no detectable effect" on reversing the decline of endangered caribou populations, a study says. Scientists from Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the universitie...
Lethbridge police chief says officers surveilling cabinet minister inexcusable
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The head of the Lethbridge Police Service in southern Alberta says it's shameful and inexcusable that two officers did unauthorized surveillance on a provincial cabinet minister. Chief Scott Woods also notes that...
Two Alberta officers opposed to park plans disciplined over surveillance of minister
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Two Alberta police officers have been temporarily demoted over unauthorized surveillance of a former environment minister and people she met with to discuss a controversial plan to restrict off-road vehicles in a ...
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 ...
