Tag Archives: Environment
'Marathon in a sauna': emergency projects aim to help B.C. salmon through drought
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's prolonged drought risks damaging the salmon population for generations and has led to a series of emergency, rapidly deployed projects in an effort to intervene. The Pac...
Sep 08, 2023
Bear not welcome at Central Park School in Nipawin
Provincial conservation officers said a young black bear that was spotted at Central Park School in Nipawin on the first day of class was shot by responders. Inspector Brett Diemert, with the Conserva...
Sep 08, 2023
Regulator yanks thousands of wells from troubled oil company, transfers for cleanup
Alberta's energy regulator has transferred control of thousands of oil and gas wells and other facilities held by a troubled Calgary company to the group that's responsible for cleaning up poorly main...
Sep 08, 2023
Quebec man facing arson charges in northern wildfires detained ahead of bail hearing
A Quebec man facing arson charges for allegedly setting forest fires during the province's unprecedented wildfire season will remain detained ahead of a bail hearing on Monday. Brian Par, 37, of Chibo...
Sep 08, 2023
Thousands of residents return to Yellowknife, but many still out in other communities
YELLOWKNIFE - Thousands of people from the Northwest Territories have returned home this week after a wildfire evacuation order was lifted for Yellowknife's 20,000 residents. The order for the territo...
Sep 07, 2023
Quebec man, 37, charged with arson in connection with wildfires in province's north
Quebec provincial police have arrested a man for arson in connection with numerous forest fires that burned earlier this summer in the province's north. Police say a 37-year-old man was scheduled to a...
Sep 07, 2023
Most campgrounds in Lac La Ronge Provincial Park now closed
Most campgrounds in the Lac La Ronge Provincial Park are now closed for the season.That's according to park manager Natasha Merriman, who explained Nut Point, Nemeiben Lake, Wadin Bay, Little Deer, Ma...
Sep 07, 2023
New questions for wind, solar in Alberta create more confusion for industry: advocate
EDMONTON - New information requirements for Alberta power generators including wind and solar projects will create further problems for a booming renewables industry that government policy has already...
Sep 07, 2023
Western Canada a global hot spot over summer months: Climate Central study
Western Canada was a global hot spot in a summer that climate change made one of the warmest on record, according to a new analysis. "Canada, and especially the western provinces, have been unusually ...
Sep 07, 2023
Deb Haaland, first Indigenous member of U.S. cabinet, meets counterparts in Ottawa
WASHINGTON - Canada and the United States are working together through "a period of healing" from the open wounds of residential schools and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, U.S. Inter...
Sep 06, 2023