Tag Archives: Environment
Water levels at Little Red River Park expected to rise
The Water Security Agency (WSA) is advising that the water levels along Highway 2 north and at Little Red River Park will be rising over the course of the next week.In response to significant precipit...
Jun 28, 2022
Clean fuel standards allow companies to get both tax credits and sell carbon credits
OTTAWA - Canada's new emissions standards for gasoline and diesel will allow oil companies that get a federal tax break for installing carbon capture and storage systems to also generate credits based...
Jun 28, 2022
Chance of showers Tuesday prior to potential heat wave
After a rainy stretch for much of June, northwest Saskatchewan has largely sunny skies ahead.There remain some cloudy days before summer starts to peak. Meadow Lake and the Battlefords have overcast s...
Jun 27, 2022
Fuel standard regulations to start later, cut more emissions from gasoline, diesel
OTTAWA - The federal government is delaying new emissions standards on gasoline and diesel another year but is demanding the oil and gas sector make bigger cuts to fuel emissions by 2030 given how muc...
Jun 27, 2022
B.C. scientists see recovery but fear more heat domes could change ecosystems forever
VANCOUVER - A year after the heat dome event that killed billions of plants and animals in British Columbia, scientists say ecosystems are recovering, but could be transformed forever if such events b...
Jun 27, 2022
Quebec homeowners say Ottawa must address decades of erosion caused by ship traffic
VERCHRES, Que. - Every year, 100-year-old Anglique Beauchemin watches more of her land crumble into the St. Lawrence River. From her home along a busy stretch of river in Verchres, Que., on Montreal's...
Jun 26, 2022
Policy revamp might save lives in next heat dome, but so could community, say experts
VICTORIA - She died in the arms of firefighters. The 96-year-old woman now lingers in the memory of Chief Jim Ogloff of the Coquitlam Fire Department, a reminder of the impact of last summer's heat do...
Jun 26, 2022
Canada pledges funds as G7 develops response to famine fallout from Russian invasion
SCHLOSS ELMAU, GERMANY - Canada pledged $50 million to prevent Ukrainian grain from going to waste on Sunday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to work with G7 nations on further measures to h...
Jun 26, 2022
Indigenous conservation Canada's way of the future, Guilbeault says
Tanya Ball began her career as a social worker for the Kaska Dene First Nation. Now she runs a land guardian program, working to monitor and protect a vast stretch of the band's northern British Colum...
Jun 25, 2022
Experts caution against becoming 'air-conditioned society' as heat waves get hotter
Hundreds of people who perished during the historic heat wave in British Columbia last summer died in homes ill-suited for temperatures that spiked into the high 30s and beyond for days,a report by B....
Jun 25, 2022