Tag Archives: Environment
Disaster risk profile warns Canada ill-prepared for a major earthquake
OTTAWA - The first draft of a new national disaster risk assessment report warns that a major earthquake in British Columbia or parts of Ontario and Quebec could swiftly become the most costly natural...
May 11, 2023
B.C.’s Elephant Hill wildfire results in losses of $1B per year: Indigenous report
VANCOUVER - An Indigenous-led report into a massive wildfire nearly six years ago that destroyed more than 100 homes and scorched a vast swath of British Columbia's Interior says the blaze resulted in...
May 10, 2023
Municipalities asked Alberta's United Conservatives to keep aerial wildfire fighters
EDMONTON - Alberta's decision to cancel funding for an elite wildfire-fighting crew in 2019 came despite pleas to keep the Rapattack program from at least three municipalities, including one that has ...
May 10, 2023
N.S. approves wind farm, but federal officials worry project would kill at-risk birds
HALIFAX - A 13-turbine wind farm recently approved by the Nova Scotia government is worrying federal officials, who say there isn't enough information about what impact the project will have on the en...
May 10, 2023
Suncor says person injured by bear north of Fort McMurray
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Suncor Energy says someone was injured by a bear at its oilsands base plant north of Fort McMurray, Alta., on the weekend. Spokesman Leithan Slade says it happened on Saturday a...
May 09, 2023
Riverbank erosion prompts Wisconsin band to ask for emergency shutdown of Line 5
WASHINGTON - Heavy spring flooding has made Line 5 an "imminent threat" to Lake Superior and a key Indigenous watershed, lawyers argued Tuesday in an emergency motion to shut down the controversial cr...
May 09, 2023
Indigenous guardians help restore nature and community
OTTAWA - On the shores of the eastern arm of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, Iris Catholique and the Ni Hat'ni Dene Indigenous Guardians have spent several years watching the ice take l...
May 09, 2023
Firefighters question Alberta cuts to aerial attack teams as province battles blazes
EDMONTON - Former members of an elite Alberta wildfire-fighting crew say government budget cuts have left the province battling its current blazes short-handed. "We could have been difference-makers,"...
May 09, 2023
Officials prepare for another bout of wildfires in Alberta as temperatures to rise
Officials say they are preparing for hotter weather this coming weekend in central Alberta, posing a risk for more active wildfires after a brief reprieve. "The fire danger remains high in many northe...
May 09, 2023
High temperatures in B.C. pose 'threat of new wildfires,' wildfire service warns
Rain and cooler temperatures in northeastern British Columbia will help suppression efforts for two out-of-control wildfires, but high temperatures forecast for later this week may pose a new threat, ...
May 08, 2023