Tag Archives: Environment
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
Economists hope to dispel myths as carbon tax increase approaches
It has its critics and its supporters, but who is right and who is wrong when it comes to the debate over the federal carbon tax?As of April 1, that levy will rise from $65 to $80 a tonne, representin...
Mar 27, 2024
Climate change expected to drive shifts in urban birds, animals, bugs
The mix of urban birds, bugs and other critters that humans have grown familiar with is due for a big shift because of climate change, a new study says. "The nature that people interact with isn't wha...
Mar 27, 2024
Conservative premiers are lying about carbon pricing: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused conservative politicians across Canada, including premiers, of lying to Canadians about the carbon price. Trudeau's government is buckling as attacks mou...
Mar 27, 2024
Conservatives blast pro-carbon price economists as 'so-called experts'
OTTAWA - Conservatives won't be taking advice from "so-called experts" when it comes to carbon pricing, the party said in a statement Wednesday after more than 200 economists signed an open letter cha...
Mar 27, 2024
B.C. orca calf rescue team considers changing tactics to save stranded whale: DFO
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A rescue team working to coax a stranded killer whale calf from a lagoon off northern Vancouver Island is prepared to change tactics to save its life, including the possibility of lif...
Mar 27, 2024
Trudeau says premiers complaining about carbon price didn't pitch better ideas
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back against premiers who are asking him to cancel an upcoming increase to the federal carbon price, saying they have not proposed better ideas to fig...
Mar 26, 2024