Tag Archives: Environment
Alberta Energy Regulator may have ignored law by not disclosing oilsands leak: lawyer
CALGARY - Alberta's energy regulator may have ignored provincial law by not publicly disclosing that waste from a large oilsands tailings pond was escaping containment and seeping into groundwater, sa...
Mar 06, 2023
Climate change threatens Canadian security, prosperity, warns stark spy agency brief
OTTAWA - Canada's spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to national security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic ...
Mar 05, 2023
Canadian environmental groups praise UN accord to protect marine life on high seas
OTTAWA - Praise poured in from Canadian environmental groups on Sunday for a newly signed treaty that will help protect biodiversity in the high seas, where conservation efforts across vast stretches ...
Mar 05, 2023
B.C. logging firm wants to avoid cutting old growth, but province said it must pay
A British Columbia company that wants to avoid logging sections of at-risk old growth was told by the Crown corporation that manages B.C.'s public forests to cut the trees down or pay to leave them st...
Mar 05, 2023
Canadian rover helping in global search for frozen water on dark side of the moon
EDMONTON - The Canadian lunar rover could soon help reveal the moon's dark side. The country's first moon rover is set to put the Canadian Space Agency at the forefront of space exploration, helping i...
Mar 04, 2023
N.W.T. says lack of notice on oilsands tailings spill goes against deal with Alberta
Alberta didn't live up to the terms of a deal it has with the Northwest Territories to inform it about threats to its shared watershed after two major oilsands tailings spills, the territory's environ...
Mar 03, 2023
Up to the gills in goldfish: Large invasive fish a problem in B.C. waters: expert
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Goldfish - some nearly as big as a football - are invading British Columbia's lakes and quickly spreading, putting native fish populations at risk, a researcher says. Brian Heise, an ...
Mar 03, 2023
Three men killed in southeast B.C. avalanche were from Germany: news agency
INVERMERE, B.C. - Three victims of a deadly avalanche in southeastern British Columbia have been identified as German citizens. The German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur says the mayor of the mun...
Mar 03, 2023
Alberta band chief angry over silence from Imperial Oil after oilsands tailings spill
A northern Alberta Indigenous leader has accused Imperial Oil Ltd. of a nine-month coverup over a massive release of toxic oilsands tailings on land near where his band harvests food. Chief Allan Adam...
Mar 02, 2023
Manitoba RCMP say 2 teenage girls died after being found in the cold on First Nation
ST. THERESA POINT, Man. - RCMP say two teenage girls died in the cold outside a home on a remote First Nation in Manitoba. Mounties were called after the 14-year-old girls were found Wednesday in St. ...
Mar 02, 2023