Tag Archives: Environment
U.S. downs new 'object' off Alaskan coast, not far from Canadian border: White House
WASHINGTON - A U.S. fighter jet shot an unknown object out of the sky Friday off the coast of Alaska not far from the Canadian border, White House officials confirmed, just hours after Canada's defenc...
Feb 10, 2023
B.C. fines Teck Coal more than $16 million over Elk Valley infractions
The British Columbia government has fined Teck Coal Limited more than $16 million for exceeding pollution thresholds as well as failing to build an active water treatment facility on time at one of it...
Feb 08, 2023
Regulator gives Imperial Oil weeks to plan fix for months-old oilsands tailings leak
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy regulator has given Imperial Oil until the end of the month to figure out a way to permanently fix ongoing seepage and overflows from tailings ponds at its Kearl oilsands m...
Feb 08, 2023
Alberta to pilot oil and gas royalty breaks for legally required well cleanup
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is moving ahead with a plan that would give oil and gas companies a tax break for meeting their legal obligations to clean up old well sites, inviting a select group ...
Feb 08, 2023
Defence, innovation ministers team up to sell D.C. on merits of working with Canada
WASHINGTON - Canada is fortifying a long-standing front in its ongoing battle with protectionist impulses in the United States: resurrecting the Second World War-era notion of the two continental alli...
Feb 08, 2023
Caution urged as mining companies eye critical minerals below Quebec boreal forest
MONTREAL - About one million square kilometres of Quebec is covered by boreal forest, roughly 70 per cent of the entire province. In the north, where ecosystems are less likely to have been altered by...
Feb 08, 2023
B.C's pink sea urchins are on the move to shallower waters thanks to climate change
VANCOUVER - Pink sea urchins off the coast of Vancouver Island are expanding into shallower waters, in what researchers say is an indication of how rapidly climate change is affecting ocean life. Rese...
Feb 07, 2023
Cree mother wonders how mining development in northern Quebec will affect food supply
CHISASIBI, Que. - Heather House studies full-time through McGill University's distance education program, and when she is not immersed in books she is raising her eight children with her husband in Ch...
Feb 07, 2023
The state of the union? Unapologetically pro-American, to hear Joe Biden tell it
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden offered no apologies for his spendthrift, pro-American economic strategy Tuesday, making clear in his second state of the union speech that he intends to persist ...
Feb 07, 2023
Canadian government announces $46.5 million for deepsea research
VANCOUVER - The federal government is investing more than $46 million over the next five years to see what's under Canada's oceans and then protect it. Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray said understandi...
Feb 06, 2023