Tag Archives: Environment
Cottage owners urged to take think Fire Smart as season comes to a close
The summer months are now behind us.With the changing of the season many people are now getting ready to close up their cottages and seasonal properties for the year.Prince Albert National Park staff ...
Sep 09, 2019 Prince Albert National Park wants to remind cottage owners to take some steps to protect their properties as they close up their cottages. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Fire prevention on display in Little Red River Park
Industry leaders in forestry management met on Wednesday in Little Red River Park to share expertise with each other, and to highlight some of the strategies they use to prevent forest fires to the pu...
Sep 04, 2019 A contractor explains how a mulcher operates. The machine breaks up felled trees and branches so they can return to the soil more easily and don't serve as kindling for a potential forest fire. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
A below average summer in temperature and precipitation for Battlefords area
With fall fast approaching it is an opportune time to look back at the summer season in the Battlefords.The area saw a colder and dryer than average June, July and August.The monthly mean temperature ...
Sep 04, 2019 Despite a few storms rolling through the area, the region experienced a dry and cool summer. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Supreme Court rejects Saskatchewan's request to delay carbon tax appeal
Saskatchewan says the Supreme Court of Canada has denied the province's request to delay its appeal hearing over the carbon tax.The province says the Supreme Court recently issued an order stating the...
Aug 31, 2019
Citizens bring forestry concerns to government
Some concerned area citizens are worried about the future of the region's boreal forest.On Tuesday , they met with officials from the Ministry of Environment Forestry Branch at the Forestry Centre in ...
Aug 29, 2019 A group of citizens met with officials from the Ministry of Environment at the Forestry Centre Tuesday afternoon. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
‘Event of the summer’ says researcher on Meadow Lake Provincial Park tornadoes
For David Sills, the weather system that tore through part of Meadow Lake Provincial Park over the Canada Day long weekend was the event of the summer for tornadoes.The executive director with the Nor...
Aug 27, 2019 Drone imagery from the Northern Tornadoes Project shows uprooted and downed trees after a storm tore through Meadow Lake Provincial Park on June 29. (supplied/Northern Tornadoes Project)
P.A. area man pleads not guilty to illegal hunting charge
A 59-year-old man from the Prince Albert area will have the opportunity to share his side of a hunting story, when he appears for trial in December.Doug Risling has pleaded not guilty to a charge of b...
Aug 27, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Brazil, Bolivia assessing needs after Canada offers $15M aid for Amazon fires
OTTAWA - A Canadian official says Brazil and other Amazon-basin countries are considering Canada's offer of $15 million and equipment to help fight the fires destroying the South American rainforest. ...
Aug 27, 2019
Federal incentive looks to help Sask. businesses go green
An incentive from the federal government will help some businesses in Saskatchewan that want to make their operations a little bit more green.The Climate Action Incentive Fund is available for small- ...
Aug 27, 2019 Alexander Manykin | Dreamstime.com
R.M. of Birch Hills ponders large waste landfill proposal
The R.M. of Birch Hills could decide as early as next month whether or not to approve a proposed large waste landfill site in pastureland south of the Branspeth turn off on Highway 3. Many local resid...
Aug 26, 2019 With ever-increasing pressures on landfill sites like the one at Prince Albert, the R.M. of Birch Hills is mulling a proposal for a large regional non-hazardous landfill cell south of Highway 3. (File photo/paNOW Staff)