Tag Archives: Environment
B.C. sending helicopters to deliver water to flooded farms: agriculture minister
Karl Meier has spent days battling to save his property and dairy cattle from flooding in British Columbia's Fraser Valley, but he says the biggest issue right now is with local law enforcement. "It w...
Nov 18, 2021
Essential access only on some B.C. highways but major infrastructure to be rebuilt
VANCOUVER - Limited access is slowly being restored to some British Columbia highways, but a state of emergency declared after widespread flooding in the southern region means the province may impose ...
Nov 18, 2021
Number of sites, looming winter, complicate 'unprecedented' B.C. highway repairs
Repairing the British Columbia highways washed out by heavy rains and flooding will be complicated by the scale of the damage, the terrain and the coming winter, building experts say. "It's unpreceden...
Nov 18, 2021
Evacuation train departed Hope, B.C., bound for Vancouver with 200 passengers
A late-night evacuation passenger train carrying about 200 people stranded for days by British Columbia's mudslides and floods left Hope for Vancouver Wednesday. Jonathan Abecassis, a spokesman for Ca...
Nov 17, 2021
Thousands of animals dead in 'agricultural disaster,' says B.C. government
Thousands of farm animals have died in an "agriculture disaster" in British Columbia set off by floods that swamped an area of the province known for its prime farming industry. Agriculture Minister L...
Nov 17, 2021
Discussions to resolve B.C. pipeline blockade have reached a pivotal point: Miller
OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says all parties are at a "critical junction" in the discussions toward a resolution on the blockade set up at the Coastal GasLink natural gas ...
Nov 16, 2021
Appeal Court reserves injunction decision in Fairy Creek old-growth logging protests
VANCOUVER - A panel of three judges in British Columbia's Court of Appeal reserved its decision Tuesday on the future of an injunction against old-growth logging protests on southern Vancouver Island ...
Nov 16, 2021
One body found in B.C. highway landslide, more missing: RCMP
RCMP say the body of a woman has been recovered from a landslide across Highway 99 near Lillooet, B.C., following historic rainfall as a search continues for others who may be buried in the debris. St...
Nov 16, 2021
Climate making disasters like B.C. rain more frequent and more intense: scientists
Climate scientists have been warning of catastrophic weather for years now, but nobody's happy the predicted floods and slides crippling British Columbia this week have come to pass. "It's not really ...
Nov 16, 2021
Hunters head back out as white-tailed deer season begins
Lodges may soon be seeing more business, and hunters may soon be out bagging more game, despite the snowy weather of late. As of November 1 and running until December 7, a new hunting season has begun...
Nov 16, 2021