Tag Archives: Environment
Budget watchdog troubled by spin around latest report on carbon pricing
OTTAWA - Canada's Parliamentary budget officer said he is troubled by what he describes as the selective use of facts from his new financial analysis of carbon pricing. Yves Giroux said the report has...
Apr 08, 2023
'Hanging in': David Suzuki shares insights as he retires from 'The Nature of Things'
After 44 years as the face of Canada's premier science TV show, you might expect David Suzuki to feel a little sadness and a little nostalgia as he steps down as host of "The Nature of Things." Not so...
Apr 07, 2023
The Closest Living Relative Of Extinct ‘Bigfoot’ Found?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! For decades, the legend of Bigfoot has fascinated people around the globe. Is the massive 10-foot-tall ape-like creature with shaggy hair a human relative ...
Apr 06, 2023
Ottawa and Edmonton cement manufacturer sign preliminary deal on carbon capture
EDMONTON - The federal government has signed a deal to work with an Edmonton cement manufacturer to keep carbon dioxide generated at the plant from entering the atmosphere. Innovation, Science and Ind...
Apr 05, 2023
Alberta regulator confirms potential oilsands toxins in small fish-bearing waterbody
Alberta's energy regulator has confirmed hazardous chemicals are present in a small waterbody after two releases of tailings-contaminated wastewater from Imperial Oil's Kearl oilsands mine. In an upda...
Apr 05, 2023
Small businesses not getting what they were promised in aid to offset carbon price
OTTAWA - Small businesses in Canada have received less than 10 per cent of the financial aid they were promised to help them offset the costs of the national price on carbon emissions. When the federa...
Apr 05, 2023
'Amazing story of survival': 30,000-year-old mummified ground squirrel found in Yukon
WHITEHORSE - The ancient remains of a ground squirrel dug up by miners near Dawson City, Yukon, still has lessons to teach 30,000 years after it died, an expert says. At first glance, the small, brown...
Apr 05, 2023
Most Canadians got more from carbon-price rebates than they spent in 2021: report
OTTAWA - Most of the Canadians who paid the national carbon price in 2021 got far more back than they paid, a newly released annual report on pollution pricing says. Based on the numbers in the report...
Apr 04, 2023
Alberta waited a month to declare emergency response to oilsands releases: document
EDMONTON - The Alberta government waited a month before calling an emergency response to one of the biggest releases of oilsands tailings in the province's history, a leaked document shows. The docume...
Apr 04, 2023
Fungus that causes deadly white nose syndrome among bats detected in B.C. guano
GRAND FORKS, B.C. - A fungus that has led to some Canadian bat populations becoming endangered has been found in British Columbia. The province's Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship says ...
Apr 03, 2023