Tag Archives: Environment
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
Humboldt Urban Garden Sanctuary receives national award
The Canadian Nursery Landscape Association has awarded the Humboldt Urban Garden Sanctuary (HUGS) with the Green for Life Community award.Project designer Leslie Cornell received the nationally recogn...
Sep 22, 2022
Poaching fears as Fraser River salmon are dumped to rot, even as returns slump
VANCOUVER - Rodney Hsu says he has found too many Fraser River sockeye in places they aren't supposed to be this season - from residential areas to gravel roads, wrapped up in garbage bags and rotting...
Sep 22, 2022
NB Power 'paternalistic,' not negotiating fairly on dam project: Wolastoqey Nation
FREDERICTON - The Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick says negotiations with the province's energy utility have broken down regarding a multibillion-dollar plan to upgrade the Mactaquac dam and generat...
Sep 21, 2022
Escalation of war, nuclear threats show Putin 'failing and flailing,' says Trudeau
UNITED NATIONS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Russia's "flailing and failing" president Wednesday, joining a chorus of global outrage aimed at what he described as Vladimir Putin's panic-st...
Sep 21, 2022