Category Archives: Environment
Iqaluit residents can drink city water again after 60-day health order
IQALUIT — People in Iqaluit can drink the city's tap water again after 60 days of living under a do-not-consume notice. The notice was lifted Friday by Nunavut's Health Department. Residents of the territorial capital were told on Oct. 12 not to
Utah’s Arches to require timed tickets as visitation swells
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah national park famed for its otherworldly sandstone arches will require visitors to get timed entry tickets during its high season next year, the second Utah park to implement such a system as visitation
Navy blames Hawaii water contamination on jet fuel spill
HONOLULU (AP) — The Navy believes that contaminated tap water that went to Hawaii military households came from a one-time spill of jet fuel last month and was not caused by a leak from aging underground fuel storage tanks above
US approves Indigenous name change for Colorado mountain
DENVER (AP) — A federal panel has approved renaming a Colorado peak after a Cheyenne woman who facilitated relations between white settlers and Native American tribes in the early 19th century, part of a broader campaign to replace derogatory place
Cyprus issues 2nd offshore drilling license to ExxonMobil
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — ExxonMobil and partner Qatar Energy expanded their stake in potential oil and gas deposits off Cyprus by signing a deal with the east Mediterranean island nation Friday for a second exploration license in waters that Turkey
By the Numbers: A look at electric vehicle sales in Canada
OTTAWA — Canadians bought more electric vehicles in the last two years than in the previous eight combined. But those sales are uneven across the provinces. 110,518: Total number of new battery-electric and plug-in hybrid passenger vehicles sold in Can...
Mandate to enforce EV sales quotas needed by end of next year: Guilbeault
OTTAWA — Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he wants a national mandate that would force auto dealers to sell a certain number of electric vehicles to be in place by the end of next year. Road transportation accounts for one-fifth of
B.C. floods cause at least $450 million in damage, Insurance Bureau of Canada reports
VANCOUVER — The Insurance Bureau of Canada estimates the insured damage caused by flooding in British Columbia last month at $450 million, calling it the "most costly severe weather event in the province's history." However, the overall costs are expec...
Judge: Justice must pay $2.5M for environmental violations
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has lost another costly court ruling over his coal companies' environmental violations. A federal judge in Virginia ruled
Former B.C. TV weather forecaster predicts climate catastrophe and hunger for UN
OTTAWA — As a transplanted British Columbian, Jesse Mason views the extreme and shifting weather patterns unfolding in his native province with a high level of concern. First, there was the heat dome that caused record-breaking temperatures this summer...
