Tag Archives: Environment
Midwest Food Resources plans Seedy Saturday
Midwest Food Resources is getting ready to hold Seedy Saturday. The event that’s free to attend will take place at Living Faith Chapel at 1371 103 Street in North Battleford from 11 a.m. to 4 p....
Apr 21, 2023
Midwest Food Resources plans Seedy Saturday
Midwest Food Resources is getting ready to hold Seedy Saturday. The event that's free to attend will take place at Living Faith Chapel at 1371 103 Street in North Battleford from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on ...
Apr 21, 2023
Midwest Food Resources plans Seedy Saturday
Midwest Food Resources is getting ready to hold Seedy Saturday. The event that's free to attend will take place at Living Faith Chapel at 1371 103 Street in North Battleford from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on ...
Apr 21, 2023
UBC students construct one of Canada's first 'carbon-minimal' hempcrete buildings.
VANCOUVER - It has been two years, but University of British Columbia architecture student Katie Theall can vividly recall the"surreal moment" when their team learned it had received a site on the Van...
Apr 21, 2023
B.C.'s Terminal 2 Roberts Bank project gets federal approval; 370 binding conditions
OTTAWA - The federal government has approved a contentious container port expansion project at Roberts Bank south of Vancouver, drawing swift condemnation from environmentalists. The government said T...
Apr 20, 2023
Canada's EV battery contract with Volkswagen could be worth more than $13 billion
OTTAWA - German auto giant Volkswagen has secured an exclusive contract with Canada that could be worth more than $13 billion over the next 10 years to build an electric-vehicle battery plant in south...
Apr 20, 2023
'This was fear': Imperial CEO hears of impacts from oilsands leaks, apologizes
OTTAWA - The head of Imperial Oil heard Thursday how a nine-month delay before informing downstream communities about a seeping tailings pond on a company oilsands mine created weeks of fear and rumou...
Apr 20, 2023
Feds can't say which regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions are working: audit
OTTAWA - The federal government needs to start taking stock of whether its climate-change regulations are actually cutting greenhouse-gas emissions or not, Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco said ...
Apr 20, 2023
The federal government promised to plant 2 billion trees by 2030. It's nowhere close.
OTTAWA - Two years ago, Canada embarked on an odyssey to plant two billion trees in just 10 years. An audit of the program so far says the way things are now, it won't even get one-tenth of those tree...
Apr 20, 2023
Cost of carbon emissions nearly five times higher than previously thought: analysis
OTTAWA - The economic cost of greenhouse gas emissions is nearly five times higher than previously thought, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday. The minister told attendees at a clim...
Apr 19, 2023