Tag Archives: Environment
Canadian Food Inspection Agency raises alarm as spotted lanternfly pest nears border
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is asking Canadians to keep an eye out for an invasive bug that could spell disaster for the country's wineries and fruit growers. The spotted lanternfly i...
Sep 26, 2022
Fiona fallout: Losses being tallied as hundreds of soldiers arrive for cleanup duty
STANLEY BRIDGE, P.E.I. - Phyllis Carr's voice broke with emotion as she surveyed damage to the historic town of Stanley Bridge, a small community on the north shore of Prince Edward Island. "It's very...
Sep 26, 2022
Couple proceeds with wedding amid chaos in P.E.I. from post-tropical storm Fiona
CHARLOTTETOWN - Naomi and Tyler Wheeler have lived through a pandemic, wildfires, heat waves, minor earthquakes and most recently a post-tropical storm that laid waste to huge swaths of Atlantic Canad...
Sep 25, 2022
After Fiona: storm recovery begins as police confirm first fatality
A day after post-tropical storm Fiona left a trail of destruction across Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec, residents of a devastated coastal town in western Newfoundland learned one of their own was...
Sep 25, 2022
Reaction to destruction caused by post-tropical storm Fiona across the East Coast
HALIFAX - Post-tropical storm Fiona knocked out power to more than 500,000 customers in the Maritimes and forced towns in Cape Breton and on Newfoundland's southwestern coast to declare states of emer...
Sep 24, 2022
Military to be deployed to Nova Scotia to assist recovery after Fiona lashes region
SYDNEY, N.S. - Post-tropical storm Fiona, one of the strongest storms to ever strike Eastern Canada, left a trail of destruction in its wake early Saturday before lingering over western Newfoundland, ...
Sep 24, 2022
Oil and gas companies should invest profits in climate action: Steven Guilbeault
OTTAWA - Oil and gas companies can show their commitment to climate action by investing some of their record profits to cut their emissions, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Friday. Canadia...
Sep 23, 2022
Forest nursery in northern Sask. celebrates 25 year anniversary and over 250 million seedlings grown
A nursery responsible for helping grow millions of trees is celebrating 25 years of operations in northern Saskatchewan.PRT Growing Services Ltd. took over the Prince Albert Forest Nursery in 1997 and...
Sep 23, 2022
'Very powerful' post-tropical storm Fiona knocks out power in Nova Scotia, P.E.I.
HALIFAX - High winds knocked out power in thousands of homes in Nova Scotia and P.E.I. Friday night as people in Atlantic Canada began feeling the wrath of post-tropical storm Fiona. Environment Canad...
Sep 23, 2022
Canada's environment minister does not jump to take up UN call for windfall taxes
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault isn't warming to the idea of combating climate change by imposing a windfall tax on the massive profits being posted by some Canadian oil and gas produc...
Sep 22, 2022