Tag Archives: Environment

EDMONTON - Alberta's utilities regulator has released a report saying the province's booming renewables industry poses little threat to its agriculture or the environment. "Assuming all renewable deve...

PENTICTON, B.C. - Farmers in British Columbia will get an extra $70 million to replant and strengthen fruit orchards and vineyards after two years of weather-related disasters, says Premier David Eby....

VICTORIA - British Columbia millionaire Eric Peterson is preparing to do something he's never been comfortable with - ask other very rich people for money. Peterson and his wife, Christina Munck, have...

MONTREAL - Automobile dealers and manufacturers say Quebec's decision to end a rebate for electric vehicle purchases will stop people in the province from buying cleaner cars. Ian Sam Yue Chi, the pre...

Jason Brolund, the fire chief in West Kelowna, B.C., says he's seen thick smoke turn day to night in his years as a firefighter, but the opposite happened when a fast-moving blaze tore through his com...

British Columbia grain farmer Malcolm Odermatt says all he can do is pray for rain this spring after repeated droughts sabotaged his harvest last year. Odermatt, who is also the president of the BC Gr...

OTTAWA - Canada's Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements program, or DFAA, was launched in 1970, setting a formula for how provinces and territories would split costs with the federal government w...

OTTAWA - The federal government estimates it will need to pay almost $3.4 billion for its share of the disaster recovery bills for flooding and landslides that devastated British Columbia's Fraser Val...

VANCOUVER - It started with a tip from the local First Nation of a "bump on the sea floor" where the fish liked to be and led to the discovery of Canada's only known live coral reef. Deep sea ecologis...

One of the first indicators of how bountiful a fruit harvest will be in British Columbia comes months before any peaches, apricots or nectarines start fattening on trees. Like many other farmers, Jenn...