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Alberta town asks province for stop-work order on coal exploration in mountains
HIGH RIVER, Alta. - An Alberta town in the Rocky Mountain foothills wants the provincial government to order a stop to increasingly controversial coal exploration in the region. "Coal exploration is c...
Feb 01, 2021
Element of contradictions: Selenium cuts thin line between healthy and toxic
EDMONTON - Sort of silvery in its raw state, sort of metallic but not really, selenium embodies contradiction. It's fairly rare - the 68th most common element - but often found with coal. Tiny amounts...
Feb 01, 2021
Alberta promises close watch on new mines but cuts oversight of coal-polluted rivers
EDMONTON - Alberta government documents show repeated cuts to environmental monitoring despite contaminants in some waterways that exceed thresholds that are supposed to trigger increased scrutiny. Th...
Feb 01, 2021
'Serious concern' among Nunavut communities over iron ore mine's proposed expansion
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut communities on the northern tip of Baffin Island are speaking out against the proposed expansion of an open-pit iron ore mine that would include construction of a railroad, ...
Jan 31, 2021
Kenny Chesney group helps install artificial reef in Florida
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Country music superstar Kenny Chesney's No Shoes Reefs organization is helping to install an artificial reef off of Florida's Atlantic coast. The organization and other marine gro...
Jan 28, 2021
General Motors sets goal of going largely electric by 2035
General Motors has set a goal of making the vast majority of the vehicles it produces electric by 2035, and the entire company carbon neutral, including operations, five years after that. The Detroit ...
Jan 28, 2021
Liberals' two-billion-trees promise to cost $2.78 billion more than planned, PBO says
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office says a pledge by the Trudeau Liberals to plant two billion trees could cost almost double what the government says.The tree-planting spree, spread over a decad...
Jan 28, 2021
More southern Alberta communities voice concern over province's plans to expand coal
Concern over the Alberta government's decision to drop a coal policy that has protected the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains for decades is growing among area communities. "We are definitely not ...
Jan 27, 2021
GM, Navistar team up to build hydrogen powered heavy trucks
DETROIT - In about three years, Navistar plans to start selling low-emission hydrogen-powered heavy trucks under a partnership with General Motors and a small distribution company called OneH2. The ve...
Jan 27, 2021
UN survey uses Angry Birds to reveal Canadian, global opinions on climate policies
Canadians are "Angry Birds" when it comes to climate change, shows a survey the United Nations calls the largest ever taken on the issue. The mammoth survey, which drew respondents through the use of ...
Jan 26, 2021
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