Tag Archives: Environment

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Lawyers for Inuit hunters who blocked an airstrip and road at an iron ore mine in Nunavut say they will end their protest for now. The blockade started a week ago after seven hunter...

OTTAWA - The federal government has announced $55 million in funding to support Canada's clean technology sector. The money is from a pool of $750 million announced in December for Sustainable Develop...

CALGARY - An environmental charity is arguing an inquiry into alleged foreign-led campaigns targeting the oil and gas sector set out to label green groups as anti-Alberta and disrupt their funding bef...

A coal-mining company with exploration leases in Alberta's Rocky Mountains is trying to figure out how the government's decision to restore protection of the land will affect its plans. "I'm not sure ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A mining company wants a judge to order Nunavut hunters to stop blocking the mine's road and airstrip in protest of its proposed expansion. Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. is seeking th...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is promising cash-strapped cities billions of dollars in permanent funding for their public-transit systems - though most of the money won't start flowing until...

CALGARY - A judge is to hear arguments this week over whether Alberta's public inquiry into the purported foreign funding of environmental charities is a valid defence of the province's ailing oil ind...

EDMONTON - Doubts are surfacing over the Alberta government's decision to restore a policy that protects the Rocky Mountains from coal mining. "I think (it) did a bait and switch and I'm very disappoi...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Flights have been grounded and most operations suspended at an open-pit iron ore mine on Nunavut's Baffin Island as protesters upset about its expansion plan continue to block the s...

EDMONTON - Public protest has persuaded the Alberta government to U-turn on a major section of its economic road map and reinstate a policy that has kept open-pit coal mines out of the Rocky Mountains...