Tag Archives: Environment

VANCOUVER - Researchers from the University of British Columbia said they've identified a potentially new population of open-ocean orcas, which hunt the biggest predators on the planet. In a study pub...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has released some details of where and how it will permit wind and solar development, prohibiting it along a broad stretch of the province's western edge, assessing i...

MONTREAL - These days, Mylene Gamache-Tremblay spends her evenings and weekends taking orders for solar eclipse glasses, and packing and shipping them around the eastern part of the country. The Montr...

As they marched through the streets in 2019, Ashley Torres and Louis Couillard did not expect a protest would alter the trajectory of their lives. Then 23 and 22 years old, the student organizers did ...

A B.C. First Nation and a Houston-based firm are buying a ready-to-construct pipeline project that would supply a proposed floating LNG export terminal north of Prince Rupert. The Nisga'a Nation - who...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is set to begin work on a $1.15-billion project to expand irrigation, a move Premier Scott Moe says will help fulfil a dream not fully realized. Moe announced Thur...

This winter has been nicer than normal, with a late start to the snowfall and warmer-than-normal temperatures. David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, joined E...

EDMONTON - Critics are asking why the Alberta government's proposed regulations on renewable power seem to have ignored the conclusions of its own utilities regulator. "How did they end up creating th...

Two Alberta First Nations have asked the federal government to examine whether a component of oilsands tailings pond water known to harm fish and other animals should be classed as toxic. The move cou...

EDMONTON - Alberta's utilities regulator has released a report saying the province's booming renewables industry poses little threat to its agriculture or the environment. "Assuming all renewable deve...