Tag Archives: Environment
B.C. Supreme Court hears petition for judicial review of Coastal GasLink certificate
VANCOUVER - Lawyers for the Office of the Wet'suwet'en were in British Columbia Supreme Court Thursday seeking an order quashing the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for a pipelin...
Oct 01, 2020
Infrastructure bank to invest $10 billion in priority areas for pandemic recovery
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is promising to finally spend $10 billion that has sat in the accounts of its infrastructure financing agency for years, hoping to create thousands of post-pandemic job...
Oct 01, 2020
Another First Nation in Nova Scotia set to start self-regulated lobster fishery
HALIFAX - A First Nation in southern Cape Breton is set to become the second Indigenous band in Nova Scotia to launch a self-regulated commercial lobster fishery that will operate outside the regular ...
Sep 30, 2020
Court should intervene to remedy Canada's alleged failure on climate change: lawyer
VANCOUVER - The courts have a definite role in helping to determine if Canada has breached the constitutional rights of 15 youths who are suing the government for its alleged failures on climate chang...
Sep 30, 2020
CPP breaking its rules with third-party donations in U. S: environment group
TORONTO - The Canada Pension Plan is overlooking its own rules that say its money cannot be used for political ends, says an environmental group. John Bennett of Friends of the Earth says Crestone Pea...
Sep 28, 2020
Minimal risk to wild salmon from viruses on farmed B.C. salmon: Fisheries Department
VANCOUVER - The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says nine pathogens from farmed salmon in British Columbia's Discovery Islands pose a minimal risk to wild salmon, based on its scientific assessment...
Sep 28, 2020
Quill Lake area residents told to prepare for gas flare
Residents of the Quill Lake area need not worry if they see a large red flame east of the community starting tomorrow.SaskEnergy is conducting a series of controlled natural gas flares along Highway 5...
Sep 28, 2020
U.S. appeals softwood ruling to WTO appeals body the U.S. has rendered inoperative
OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Mary Ng says it is extremely disappointing that the United States has decided to appeal a World Trade Organization ruling against its softwood-lumber duties, part...
Sep 28, 2020
Trudeau urges largest countries in the world to support UN biodiversity plan
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on countries with the largest land masses to do more to protect the biodiversity of their land and water. Trudeau made that call on Monday at a specia...
Sep 28, 2020
Montreal demonstrators demand climate justice a year after Greta Thunberg speech
MONTREAL - Demonstrators gathered in downtown Montreal on Saturday to protest planetary warming on the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. The coalition behind the event is calling for net zero ...
Sep 26, 2020