Tag Archives: Environment
City approves OSB mill subdivision
The City of Prince Albert has approved a request by the group planning to build a new OSB mill to section off 200 acres of land near the pulp mill. While not all the hurdles have been crossed yet, May...
Feb 14, 2023
Imperial Oil files cleanup plan for tailings leak in Alberta, won't disclose details
Imperial Oil Ltd. has filed a plan for the interim cleanup of one of the largest oilpatch spills in Alberta history but hasn't released any details on the plan or the two toxic releases at its Kearl o...
Feb 13, 2023
Baffinland critical of report that says shipping to blame for narwhal displacement
A new report predicts there will be almost no narwhal left in an area off the northeastern coast of Baffin Island this summer and says shipping traffic from the nearby Mary River iron-ore mine is to b...
Feb 11, 2023
'Huge concern': Opposition says Alberta premier should come clean on campaign funding
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith should come clean on whether funding for her leadership campaign has influenced her government's agenda, says the province's New Democrat Opposition. Energy c...
Feb 10, 2023
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