Tag Archives: Environment

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister is promising strong action by next fall to clean up the province's growing backlog of unreclaimed oil and gas sites. "There are many oil wells to reclaim and the c...

WINNIPEG - Climbing up trees, wrangling with ropes and navigating twisted odd-angled limbs may not be everyone's idea of a great day. But it is to Jordyn Dyck, who has turned her job as an arborist in...

OTTAWA - The NDP is caving to political pressure from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre when it comes to its stance on the consumer carbon price, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. Speak...

A humpback whale was so entangled in fishing gear, ropes and buoys that it took four days for a Fisheries Department crew to unravel the mess, Paul Cottrell said. The rescue off British Columbia's coa...

VANCOUVER - A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia's long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to "big polluters" if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, P...

EDMONTON - An Alberta First Nation has revived a lawsuit it launched 10 years ago in an effort to get the federal government to recognize its human right to clean, safe water. The Ermineskin Cree Nati...

MONTREAL - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh won't say whether he would keep the consumer carbon price if his party forms government after the next election. Speaking to reporters in Montreal on Thursday, Sing...

WALTON, N.S. - Four boxcars filled with concrete are sitting on the floor of the Bay of Fundy near Walton, N.S., where residents are worried the debris - abandoned by another failed tidal power projec...

CALGARY - The proportion of Canadian business leaders who say they are worried about climate change jumped dramatically in 2024. In a newly released report by Deloitte, 85 per cent of the 129 Canadian...

TORONTO - Don't put away your summer wardrobe just yet - The Weather Network says most Canadians are in for a warm fall. The network predicts that the majority of Canadians will see a slow transition ...