Tag Archives: Environment
Small forest fire put out in Oka provincial park as Quebec fire season starts early
MONTREAL - A small forest fire has been extinguished in a provincial park west of Montreal, signalling an early start to the 2024 wildfire season. A spokesman for Quebec's forest fire prevention socie...
Mar 31, 2024
Low tide pauses efforts to save B.C. orca while rescuers plan next steps
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - Low tide kept rescuers trying to save an orphaned whale calf stranded near a remote British Columbia community off the waters on Saturday, but Fisheries and Oceans Canada said officia...
Mar 30, 2024
A real screamer. Why some in Saskatchewan are excited about the emergence of cicadas?
At first glance, it sounds like something from a 1960s horror flick or an episode of Radio Mystery Theater, but it's real life and it's coming this spring.Bug enthusiasts in Saskatchewan are watching ...
Mar 30, 2024
Fisheries officials monitoring orphaned orca calf in lagoon off Vancouver Island
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - Efforts to coax an orphaned whale calf out of a lagoon off Vancouver Island have been paused and fisheries officials are now monitoring the animal from afar until the tidal situation ...
Mar 29, 2024
Canada's coal exports up again in 2023 as government's promised ban elusive
OTTAWA - Canadian exports of thermal coal increased another seven per cent last year, reaching the highest level in almost a decade. The boom in exports of the kind of coal burned to make electricity ...
Mar 29, 2024
Endangered North Atlantic right whales lose three of 19 calves this season
FREDERICTON - An international environmental organization is calling on the federal government to step up protections for endangered North Atlantic right whales beyond the 2023 measures it's opting to...
Mar 29, 2024
New study says fireworks have small effect on air quality, but doctors not impressed
MONTREAL - Almost a year after smog from wildfires led officials in Montreal to cancel two major fireworks shows, groups representing pyrotechnics companies have released a study that concludes the di...
Mar 29, 2024
Higgs champions NB shale gas development as a better climate plan than carbon pricing
OTTAWA - New Brunswick's alternative to the federal carbon price would be to eventually ship liquid natural gas to Europe as an alternative to coal, Premier Blaine Higgs told a House of Commons commit...
Mar 28, 2024
Killer whale rescue team puts boats back in lagoon in effort to entice calf to ocean
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A flotilla of up to 10 vessels, taking advantage of the best tidal flows in days, was on the waters of a remote lagoon off northern Vancouver Island Thursday in an effort to coax a yo...
Mar 28, 2024
Fire Ban called for RM of Meadow Lake
A fire ban has been announced for the RM of Meadow Lake. According to a release, the ban, while not in effect in the City of Meadow Lake, will prohibit any open fires on private and crown lands, in wo...
Mar 27, 2024