Tag Archives: Environment
Budget funding for BC Wildfire Service garners mixed reaction from experts
VANCOUVER - A fire ecologist says new provincial funding to expand the BC Wildfire Service to a year-round endeavour is a welcome step toward preventing disasters, while others in the field say the fu...
Feb 23, 2022
Biden putting 'Buy American' frame around critical minerals development efforts
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is once again draping the union-friendly, red, white and blue bunting of his Buy American philosophy over a key component of his administrative agenda - one in which C...
Feb 22, 2022
B.C. budget includes $2.1B in disaster relief; $5.5B deficit for next fiscal year
VICTORIA - British Columbia has earmarked $2.1 billion to fund disaster recovery efforts and future response to the threats posed by wildfires, floods and heat waves in a budget that forecasts a $5.5-...
Feb 22, 2022
Rays of hope emerge in rebuild of Lytton, B.C., months after wildfire destruction
Denise O'Connor is back in Lytton, B.C., living in the home where she spent her childhood years. But it's not where she was living last summer when a wildfire swept through the Fraser Canyon village a...
Feb 18, 2022
Onion Lake Cree Nation calls for repeal of trespass amendments
Onion Lake Cree Nation (OLCN) is calling on the Government of Saskatchewan to immediately repeal recent amendments to the Trespass to Property Act.The legislation in question came into force on Jan. 1...
Feb 17, 2022
Canada has existing options if Line 5 shuts down, environmental report argues
WASHINGTON - Viable alternatives to Line 5 already exist if the controversial cross-border pipeline gets shut down, says a new report from an Canadian environmental group looking to bridge the ideolog...
Feb 16, 2022
Pacific Salmon Treaty failing to address harvest of struggling B.C. stocks: advocates
VANCOUVER - Significant numbers of salmon returning to spawn in British Columbia are being caught in southeast Alaskan fisheries, hindering Canada's efforts to preserve and rebuild stocks that are dec...
Feb 16, 2022
Panel agrees with Canada that Trump-era U.S. solar panel tariffs violate USMCA
WASHINGTON - When it comes to trade dispute victories in the post-NAFTA era, Canada just tied it up, 1-1. A dispute resolution panel has agreed that tariffs on Canadian-made solar products imposed in ...
Feb 15, 2022
Study suggests climate change made B.C. floods at least twice as likely
Catastrophic floods that swamped much of southern British Columbia last fall were at least twice as likely because of climate change, suggests new research from Environment Canada. The study, now unde...
Feb 15, 2022
'We were right there': Guardians in Fort Good Hope step in when no one else can
Twyla Edgi-Masuzumi was the first person to get a call when a family of six disappeared on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories while travelling by boat to a funeral last summer. Edgi-Masu...
Feb 13, 2022