Tag Archives: Environment
'I'm not going anywhere,' O'Toole says in the face of caucus-led leadership review
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is prepared to fight. He turned to social media late Monday after a group of his MPs submitted a letter to the party's caucus chair to hold a leadership revie...
Jan 31, 2022
'The devil is definitely in the details': How fuel could have entered Iqaluit's water
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Iqaluit resident Jenny Ell says she couldn't believe it when she turned on her tap a couple of weeks ago and smelled fuel for the second time in a matter of months. Ell, who is preg...
Jan 30, 2022
Nord Stream 2 pipeline a sanctions option if Russia invades Ukraine: German envoy
OTTAWA - A controversial gas pipeline that links to Russia beneath the Baltic Sea could be part of a broader package of sanctions should Russia invade Ukraine, says Germany's ambassador to Canada. Amb...
Jan 28, 2022
Iqaluit lifts precautionary boil-water advisory, bypass system still being used
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's Health Department has lifted a precautionary boil-water advisory for the city of Iqaluit. The capital's 8,000 people had been under the advisory since Jan. 19 when the cit...
Jan 28, 2022
Top Alberta court denies appeal of regulator's refusal to approve coal mine
Alberta's top court has rejected a request to appeal a regulatory decision that denied permits for the Grassy Mountain coal mine in the province's Rocky Mountains. In a decision released Friday, the A...
Jan 28, 2022
Mayor fears Rocky Mountain coal-mining concerns will be ignored after meeting Kenney
EDMONTON - An Alberta mayor says he's concerned a massive public outcry over coal mining in the province's Rocky Mountains will be ignored after hearing Premier Jason Kenney tell him he remains an "un...
Jan 27, 2022
Government's decision not to review lithium company takeover a 'mistake': expert
OTTAWA - An intelligence expert said the federal government's decision not to conduct a formal national security review on the takeover of a Canadian lithium mining company by a Chinese state-owned co...
Jan 26, 2022
B.C. Appeal Court extends injunction against old-growth logging protests
VANCOUVER - A court injunction against old-growth logging protests on Vancouver Island has been extended until next fall in a British Columbia Court of Appeal decision that overturns a lower-court rul...
Jan 26, 2022
Battleford approves River Valley location for pump track construction
The Town of Battleford has chosen a location to build an asphalt pump track.This looped sequence of rollers and berms meant to service users with any wheeled sports equipment will sit by the river val...
Jan 25, 2022
Budget officer finds $1B orphan well liability by 2025; critics claim underestimate
The parliamentary budget officer has found the cost of cleaning up orphaned oil and gas wells in Alberta and Saskatchewan already dwarfs the money collected from industry to pay for it. But critics im...
Jan 25, 2022