Tag Archives: Environment
Range of emotions for residents facing relocation over smelter in Rouyn-Noranda
ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. - An announcement this week that some 200 families would be relocated from a Rouyn-Noranda neighbourhood contaminated by smelter pollution was met with anxiety and concern for thos...
Mar 18, 2023
Public can weigh in on pulp mill environmental document online
Another step has been taken in the road to re-opening the pulp mill at the northern edge of Prince Albert with the filing of the environmental impact statement (EIS) with the province. Prince Albert P...
Mar 17, 2023
Ottawa requests joint 'working group' on oilsands contamination with Alberta
Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has further spelled out what he wants to see in a new body that would oversee monitoring and communications around pollution problems in the oilsands. In...
Mar 17, 2023
Quebec government to spend millions to move residents affected by smelter pollution
ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. - The Quebec government will provide $88.3 million to support the city of Rouyn-Noranda in the creation of a new neighbourhood and the relocation of nearly 200 families living in a...
Mar 16, 2023
Federal and Alberta governments to study oilsands tailings leak communication
EDMONTON - The Alberta and federal governments say they will work together to understand what happened around a nine-month delay in notifying the public about toxic seepage from an oilsands tailings p...
Mar 15, 2023
Ottawa says Kearl leaks harmful to wildlife; issues order to stop seepage
Federal inspectors have ruled a releaseof oilsands wastewater from Imperial Oil Ltd.'s Kearl mine is harmful to wildlife and have ordered the company to take immediate action to stop seepage from a ta...
Mar 13, 2023
Biden angers climate activists by approving controversial oil, gas project in Alaska
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden dismayed progressive allies across the continent Monday by approving a controversial oil and gas project in Alaska, a sharp pivot from the climate change offensive tha...
Mar 13, 2023
Nature group wants Canada to strengthen reviews of genetically engineered animals
OTTAWA - A national biodiversity group says Canada needs to keep genetically engineered animals out of the wild, after the federal government recently rejected several attempts to strengthen its exist...
Mar 12, 2023
Kearl oilsands leak exposes gaps in how Alberta and Canada oversee industry: experts
EDMONTON - Recent leaks of toxic tailings from northern Alberta oilsands mines have revealed serious flaws in how Canada and Alberta look after the environment, observers say. Some accuse the federal ...
Mar 12, 2023
Climate change hits home for some on P.E.I. but takes back seat in election
STANLEY BRIDGE, P.E.I. - A week into the Prince Edward Island election campaign, there has been plenty of talk about health care and housing. But after post-tropical storm Fiona pounded the Island las...
Mar 12, 2023