Tag Archives: Environment
P.A. National Park welcomes families for eighth annual Christmas Tree Harvest
Prince Albert National Park is inviting people to come out and participate in their eighth annual Christmas Tree Harvest from their Community Fuel Break. The event is put on every year during the Chri...
Dec 08, 2023
Nunavut TV channel, The Weather Network deliver forecasts in Inuktut languages
Inuit Nunangat, the four regions comprising the Inuit homeland in Canada, is home to some of the country's harshest climates. With the area's severe, cold winters and short, cool summers, weather has ...
Dec 08, 2023
As fossil fuel execs descend on U.N. climate summit, some ask 'what are COPs about?'
TORONTO - The world's major climate negotiations risk turning into a trade show spectacle of unchecked corporate influence, some observers warn, as a record number of delegates representing fossil fue...
Dec 08, 2023
New AFN chief 'absolutely' supports Ontario chiefs in push for carbon price review
OTTAWA - The incoming leader of the Assembly of First Nations says she'll back demands by chiefs in Ontario for a judicial review of Canada's carbon price. Cindy Woodhouse, a former regional chief fro...
Dec 07, 2023
Around $3.5 million raised through oil and gas leases in Lloydminster area
More oil and gas leases have been sold in the Lloydminster area.The Government of Saskatchewan held a public offering on Tuesday for 70 different parcels of land across the province with 40 being leas...
Dec 07, 2023
Cap on greenhouse gas emissions singles out Alberta, Premier Smith says
Ottawa's proposed cap on greenhouse gas emissions from the oilpatch punishes Alberta's main industry and the province will take the measures to court, Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday. "With this ...
Dec 07, 2023
Oil, gas emissions to be cut more than one-third by 2030 but offset credits allowed
OTTAWA - The oil and gas industry will have to cut emissions by more than one-third within seven years or buy offset credits under a new federal policy. A cap on emisisons from the fossil fuel sector ...
Dec 07, 2023
Jackfish Breakwater Project underway in Cochin to raise $1.8M
Under a cool, steel-grey sky Peter Wiesner looks out at the aging, crooked little finger at the opening of Lehman Creek. The long, twisting rocky outcrop is all that's left of the breakwater after dec...
Dec 06, 2023
P.A. set to host week-long international raw materials conference
People from across the world interested in Canada's raw materials will be coming to Prince Albert.The Canadian Centre for Raw Materials Display Inc. (CaCeRMDI), a non-profit stationed in Saskatchewan'...
Dec 06, 2023
Political shift underway in B.C., says confident Conservative Leader John Rustad
VICTORIA - Premier David Eby and Opposition BC United Leader Kevin Falcon are looking over their shoulders at the political gains being made by the new kid on the block, says British Columbia Conserva...
Dec 06, 2023