Tag Archives: Environment
Big numbers: Remediation of Giant Mine a cleanup on a vast scale
YELLOWKNIFE - The scale of the cleanup required at the Giant Mine almost beggars belief. Eight open mine pits. Six tailings ponds. About 100 buildings, many laced with asbestos. Untold tonnes of rusti...
Sep 28, 2022
A look at the contamination and cleanup of N.W.T.'s Giant Mine
YELLOWKNIFE - Cleanup on one of the biggest environmental messes in Canadian history is underway at the Giant Mine in the Northwest Territories. Here are some facts about the gold mine and efforts to ...
Sep 28, 2022
'Contaminated': $1-billion cleanup underway at notorious N.W.T. gold mine
YELLOWKNIFE - Just outside this northern capital, on a small hill within eyeshot of its skyline, sit 365 sea cans sealed off behind a high wire fence, the surrounding roads regularly watered to settle...
Sep 28, 2022
Gold, arsenic and murder: A look at the complex history of N.W.T.'s Giant Mine
YELLOWKNIFE - A team working to address environmental and health effects from a former gold mine outside Yellowknife has provided an update on the effort to clean up one of the most contaminated place...
Sep 28, 2022
Trudeau says stronger infrastructure needed after viewing Fiona damage in Maritimes
STANLEY BRIDGE, P.E.I. - Justin Trudeau travelled Tuesday to Nova Scotia and P.E.I., where he pledged to find ways to build more resilient infrastructure after inspecting the extensive damage caused b...
Sep 27, 2022
In Port aux Basques, N.L., residents reeling after Fiona destroys dozens of homes
CHANNEL-PORT AUX BASQUES, N.L. - Jocelyn Gillam knows she's lucky to be alive after coming face-to-face with the post-tropical storm that destroyed part of her southwestern Newfoundland town and nearl...
Sep 26, 2022
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