Tag Archives: Environment
Volunteers join forces to help clean up after unprecedented flooding in B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Caroline and Paul Mostertman have become accustomed to seeing their belongings floating by outside their flood-ravaged farm in Abbotsford, B.C., but it's the kindness of strangers s...
Dec 11, 2021
'It's like Christmas': Companies, environmentalists eager to open coal mining reports
This year, Albertans won't find out if there's coal in their stockings until after Christmas. Sometime early in 2022 - the government won't say exactly when - Energy Minister Sonya Savage is to releas...
Dec 11, 2021
Canada looks to retool EV rebate program to include more expensive SUVs, pickups
OTTAWA - The federal government wants to overhaul the rebate program for electric vehicles so that it more closely aligns with the kinds of cars Canadians want to buy, says Transport Minister Omar Alg...
Dec 11, 2021
Iqaluit residents can drink city water again after 60-day health order
IQALUIT - People in Iqaluit can drink the city's tap water again after 60 days of living under a do-not-consume notice. The notice was lifted Friday by Nunavut's Health Department. Residents of the te...
Dec 10, 2021
Mandate to enforce EV sales quotas needed by end of next year: Guilbeault
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says he wants a national mandate that would force auto dealers to sell a certain number of electric vehicles to be in place by the end of next year. Roa...
Dec 10, 2021
B.C. floods cause at least $450 million in damage, Insurance Bureau of Canada reports
VANCOUVER - The Insurance Bureau of Canada estimates the insured damage caused by flooding in British Columbia last month at $450 million, calling it the "most costly severe weather event in the provi...
Dec 09, 2021
Alberta First Nations say coal company misrepresenting relationships to review group
Two Alberta First Nations say a coal company hoping to develop a mine in the province's Rocky Mountains isn't being forthcoming with a federal agency about its relationship with their communities. The...
Dec 09, 2021
Former B.C. TV weather forecaster predicts climate catastrophe and hunger for UN
OTTAWA - As a transplanted British Columbian, Jesse Mason views the extreme and shifting weather patterns unfolding in his native province with a high level of concern. First, there was the heat dome ...
Dec 09, 2021
Three NDP MPs sign petition criticizing B.C.'s NDP government over pipeline protests
OTTAWA - Three federal New Democrat MPs have signed a petition denouncing British Columbia's NDP government for its handling of an Indigenous protest at a pipeline work site and voicing distress at th...
Dec 08, 2021
Politicians raise concerns about carbon pricing benefits given to oilsands companies
EDMONTON - Federal and Alberta Opposition politicians want the province to be more transparent about a government program supporting profitable oilsands and other energy companies that say carbon pric...
Dec 08, 2021