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- …recently, during the first of several hundred lawsuits, it was revealed that Monsanto who produces glyphosate,…
- ‘No clear answers’: PC leader calls for details on Northern Pulp transition team
- “[That] is not an adequate public release of vital information,” he said, noting that the map isn’t anywhere online…
- “But we can also reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- “Canada committed to restoring public confidence and modernizing the [National Energy Board] with a specific focus…
- “From the beginning, we understood that OpenHydro’s in-stream tidal energy technology was cutting edge and required…
- “Hydro electricity could allow other provinces to replace other forms of energy and reduce their GHG emissions,”…
- “I don’t like the term ‘shaming.’ That’s not the intention,” she said of her Instagram posts, which show the litter…
- “I want to protect the environment and the Avalon Wilderness area and Salmonier Nature Park for my kids and their…
- “I’m glad there were no explosions because that tank farm that is just 250 metres from there is like a bomb waiting…
- “If I’m going to be the voice of the people of Fredericton-York, I am not going to vote in favour of shale gas,…
- “In Canada, we are engaged in an inane debate about carbon pricing in which the Liberals exaggerate the benefits of…
- “In the early stages we were working to get an assessment of impacted areas,” said Duvall.
- “Indigenous and non-Indigenous opponents of the project continue to highlight the increasing threats to the planet…
- “Industry knows that the future is low carbon. They want a clear plan to get there.”
- “It is not the province’s decision whether or not a federal environmental assessment should take place.
- “No one could understand what had happened to me,” Genser told As It Happens host Carol Off.
- “The ethical questions surrounding David Bernhardt and his commitment to pandering to oil, coal, and gas executives…
- “The provincial and federal governments must revoke the permits for this project until the standards of free, prior…
- “There was probably 40 boats showed up in Pictou Harbour to send a message. We’re not backing down and that’s that.”
- “This storm will be life-threatening and extremely dangerous,” Scott said in a briefing reported by CNN.
- “We are seeing growth declines in Eastern Canada, and this wasn’t predicted to happen this soon.
- “We saw the royalty revenue from Donkin increase by a little over 50 per cent from the first quarter to Q3, which we…
- “We think that would be a mistake in just locking us into burning fossil fuels again for three or four more…
- “What we’re seeing this year is very, very senseless murders just happening all over the place in the city,” Idsinga…
- “While we are a small nation, we have a huge impact on the most vulnerable citizens in the world.
- “(They) indicated that specially trained tactical forces will be deployed to forcibly remove Wet’suwet’en people…
- “Almost all geoengineering proposals serve to entrench and benefit fossil fuel interests rather than solve the…
- “Alton Gas has chosen to drop the legal gavel on this grassroots group of Indigenous Water Protectors even while it…
- “Based on some of the longstanding expert rhetoric, one could easily be led to believe the WCS discount represents a…
- “Both DNR-NSF continue to push clear cutting of both Crown lands and Private lands in spite of the Lahey Report…
- “Even as coal prices rose and exports boomed last year, coal plant retirements flirted with all-time highs,” E&E…
- “Every tenth of a degree of warming is a choice between life or death,” at a time when “climate change has set our…
- “Everyone wants to see jobs in the Maritimes, but not at the cost of a potential environmental disaster,” Duffy said.
- “Grassroots Grow Deep” was held on the beautiful Cold Lake First Nations’ treaty grounds and had 45 participants…
- “I think something’s happening.
- “It sounds like the RCMP is once again using every tactic that they can to bend the law as much as possible to…
- “Over 50% of Ontario’s carbon emissions originate in cities,” but the Ontario plan “could weaken cities’ potential…
- “Reducing the release of harmful substances found in coal mining effluent discharged into the Elk River and the…
- “The amazing thing they’re saying is human activities are going to lead to this rise of carbon dioxide that is…
- “The Canadian government has admitted the Southern Resident Killer Whales face extirpation (local extinction) due to…
- “The legal tactics being employed by the BC government amount to a complete disregard for the rights of Indigenous…
- “The mill did not know the pipe was broken until a citizen out walking discovered it,” said fisherman Allan…
- “The oil industry loves to say ‘sure, electric cars, but it’s not going to happen tomorrow, we’re not going to stop…
- “The plan aims to cut almost 19 million tonnes of GHG emissions annually from transportation, industry, and…
- “The plan aims to cut almost 19 million tonnes of GHG emissions annually from transportation, industry, and…
- “There are media outlets and there are journalists who are helping us connect the dots, but too often in our…
- “This is really about providing justice for communities and just transitions for communities,” Ocasio-Cortez told…
- “Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few…
- #Kimberley residents woke up to their entire city being placed on an evacuation alert, being told to prepare to have…
- #Regina city council has voted unanimously in favour of being “100 per cent renewable” by 2050.
- $19.5 million is a major taxpayer gift so the value MANS is offering government must be astronomical.
- 2018 marks the mid-point between 2005, our chosen base year for climate target-setting, and 2030, the target year…
- A 2009 provincial land use order said that timber company Western Forest Products would be allowed to cut 27,000…
- A 2012 consultant’s report repeatedly used as justification to sanction #MuskratFalls may not have been as…
- A B.C.
- A B.C.-based researcher has spent the better part of the last decade investigating the connection between U.S.
- A Canadian precedent could be set this week as the Supreme Court decides who pays to clean up the environmental mess…
- A company in Edmonton is working on technology to turn windows into transparent solar panels, with a boost from…
- A company on Nova Scotia’s South Shore that plans to turn plastic waste into diesel and kerosene says it expects no…
- A conservationist is accusing the federal government of trying to muzzle critics over a potentially-destructive…
- A deadly disease with no known cure is killing deer in dozens of states and multiple provinces.
- A decade after the provincial government became the owner of a shuttered mill, whatever toxic mess lies beneath has…
- A farm outside of Kamloops, B.C. is trying to make its operation 100 per cent waste-free. Its secret? Bugs.
- A federal appeals court has thrown out a power company’s permit to build a natural gas pipeline across two national…
- A federal judge in Montana on Wednesday ordered the U.S.
- A flurry of activity in a remote Canadian town is raising optimism that Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its partners are…
- A former pipeline executive who worked on the proposed Energy East project says Premier Blaine Higgs’s plan to…
- A friend who lectures on leadership to senior managers in Canadian industry tells them they can’t inspire a level of…
- A history of colonial contempt
- A hole drilled for a mineral exploration company seven years ago is leaking contaminated water into the environment,…
- A large crowd packed the Northumberland Fisheries Museum in Pictou on Saturday, Feb.
- A major review of forestry in Nova Scotia offers a blueprint for developing an ‘ecological forestry plan’ in the…
- A major salvage operation get underway Wednesday to raise a tug that sank early Tuesday morning in the Fraser River.
- A Massachusetts wildlife sanctuary director tells the Cape Cod Times that at least 219 turtles washed ashore…
- A mysterious surge in emissions of an illegal ozone-destroying chemical has been tracked down to plastic foam…
- A new analysis from Carbon Brief, however, suggests that this concern may be overblown.
- A new phase is beginning in the effort to harness the Bay of Fundy’s world-famous tides to generate electricity.
- A new planned route for the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska would not have a major impact on the state’s…
- A new report from one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals says Canada’s failure to cut greenhouse-gas…
- A new report says there are just 411 North Atlantic right whales left of the rapidly declining species, in what…
- A northwestern New Brunswick city council has declared a climate emergency, a move the mayor says is a call to…
- A Nova Scotia judge has granted a temporary injunction to stop fishermen from blocking survey boats hired to examine…
- A portion of TransCanada Corp’s Keystone oil pipeline and Enbridge’s Platte pipeline remained shut on Thursday for…
- A program to prevent the extinction of Atlantic salmon in the inner Bay of Fundy has helped maintain numbers in a…
- A provincial state of emergency has been declared.
- A retired lawyer from Vancouver is risking a 28-day prison sentence to test the necessity defence as a legal…
- A retired oil field worker in Alberta has “floated” a novel solution to Alberta’s oil transportation woes: pipe the…
- A spokeswoman for Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the $420 million earmarked for Ontario under the Low…
- A startling new study in the journal Nature Geoscience concludes that another century of burning fossil fuels at…
- A three minute piece on the 6 PM Evening News about fishermen protesting a pipeline, does not relate the 50+ year…
- A tornado damaged cars in Gatineau, Que., and houses in a community west of Ottawa on Friday afternoon as much of…
- A US$1-billion green bond issued by Duke Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of utility giant Duke Energy, will finance a…
- A US$653-billion global price tag made 2017-2018 the most expensive two-year period ever for extreme weather,…
- Abandoned wells a problem in the US too:
- About 100 people marched in Fredericton on Tuesday in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en anti-pipeline protests in B.C.
- About 20 land protectors will be in court this week for hearings related to the occupation, blockade and other…
- About 37 crude oil cars have derailed and oil is leaking near St. Lazare, Man. #mbpoli
- According to Chilliwack fire ecologist Robert Gray, the scale of the wildfire emergencies we’ve lived through in…
- According to the department, the project includes a new effluent treatment facility and a new 15.5-kilometre-long…
- According to the International Federation of Robotics, sales of professional service robots — loosely defined as a…
- According to the Yellowhead Institute’s Research Director Shiri Pasternak, Bill C-69, the Act to enact the Impact…
- Across the south-west, residents of small communities like Barnhart are confronting the reality that something as…
- After 17 days, 85 dead, another 249 still missing, 14,000 homes destroyed, and flames that took out an area the size…
- After a confrontation on the water, a fleet of fishing boats escorted a vessel believed to be conducting survey work…
- After almost nine years of promises, successive Liberal and Conservative governments have failed to eliminate fossil…
- After experiencing significant wind-farm downtime due to ice buildup on turbine blades, the operators of the…
- After four days focused on the cost and schedule problems facing Muskrat Falls, testimony turned to the environment…
- After hearing the concerns, the Island MLAs agreed unanimously to reach out to politicians in Nova Scotia.
- After measuring Canada’s clean-energy resources, the Stanford team says Canada can reach this goal through the…
- After years of frustration, Canadians are now able to purchase clothing that is commercially treated to protect…
- Al Gore says it’s no coincidence that the Trump administration released a damning report on climate change on a day…
- Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says her government will buy its own rail cars to transport more oil to market.
- Alberta will double its solar capacity and save C$3.9 million per year after commissioning 94 megawatts of new…
- Alberta’s government has a long-standing transparency problem when it comes to oil and gas liabilities.
- All over the world, heatwaves are getting longer and more intense, the most well-documented and deadliest…
- Allan, former senior economist for the BC Central Credit Union and an intervenor in the hearings, said the errors…
- Alongside colleagues across Western Canada I have been studying what we are calling a ‘regime of obstruction.’…
- Although federal environmental laws should be applicable, Trudeau won’t enforce them.
- Although Hawaii avoided a direct hit by Hurricane Lane, which weakened to a tropical storm over the weekend, areas…
- Alvaro Pinto wants Alberta’s energy regulator to follow its own oilsands rules.
- Amnesty International is deeply disappointed that the BC Supreme Court has decided to allow construction of the Site…
- An animal welfare group, a church, a utility and the Nova Scotia Community College have been approved for a…
- An argument against spraying our forests — diversity in trees and plants increases carbon storage.
- An article from Feb 6th, 2019, shows the Alberta government handing out money to companies that don’t need it.
- An eerily thick haze blanketing Edmonton dissipated somewhat overnight but there is little relief in the forecast as…
- An environmental crisis is unfolding in the Solomon Islands, where a ship is leaking oil near a UNESCO World…
- An estimated 50,000 people marched in Montreal to show their support for climate action on Saturday, as part of a…
- An explosion of an Enbridge Inc natural gas pipeline in Ohio on Monday created a fireball of flame and damaged…
- An official close to the plan said one option being closely considered is hiring a former senior judge, possibly a…
- An official with the state-owned oil company that operates the pipeline that exploded last week in central Mexico,…
- An oil leak at the Tufts Cove power plant in Dartmouth, N.S., that spilled thousands of litres into Halifax harbour…
- An oil leak from a flowline to a tanker off the coast of Newfoundland caused an estimated 250,000 litres of crude to…
- And yet, “as oil continues to spoil the Gulf,” the Post adds, “the Trump administration is proposing the largest…
- Andrew Scheer would not commit that his yet-to-be-unveiled climate plan will meet Paris targets – despite claiming…
- Antarctica is melting more than six times as fast than it did in the 1980s, a new study shows.
- Antigonish filmmaker Peter Murphy and a group of four ACALA volunteers re-released what might be described as “the…
- Anyone want to guess where the wastewater will go if they start fracking in new Brunswick?
- Applicable to us and many companies, just not the big companies that pollute the most. They get a break:
- Archeologists in Montreal have uncovered Iroquois artifacts that date mostly to around 1375.
- Aren’t the Wet’suwet’en among the First Nations who have approved the pipeline?
- As a result, the Earth Overshoot Day – which marks the point at which consumption exceeds the capacity of nature to…
- As a rural Nova Scotian and a woodlot owner operator that makes my living on the forestry industry, I thought I…
- As MPs descend on Ottawa for the last parliamentary session before this October’s election, it’s clear that battle…
- As one miner — fearful of having to seek work out of town — put it, “[My kids] say ‘where are you going to go, dad?
- As part of the new legislation, the government is updating a list of projects that will require a federal…
- As police enforce a court injunction against two Indigenous camps standing in the way of a proposed B.C.
- As the U.S.
- As wells run dry in southwest Nova Scotia, an official with the Municipality of the District of Argyle says about 40…
- As with most lands in British Columbia, aboriginal title exists on the Wet’suwet’en lands in question.
- Astaldi filed a court injunction — which Premier Dwight Ball has said “prevented the flow of money” to pay 120…
- At 5:30pm today on Aug.
- At a basic level, the “SSi Energy Solution” system would capture heat waste created through the production of power…
- At least 109 people have died in Japan following historic flooding and mudslides over the weekend that prompted…
- At least 98 people have died and another were 200 seriously injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the…
- At least a third of the ice in the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush will thaw in this century as temperatures rise,…
- At the moment, Canada is producing 722 megatons of carbon dioxide per year – of which 26 per cent (190 megatons)…
- At the same press conference, Eugene Kung, a lawyer West Coast Environmental Law, said given the limited scope of…
- Australian songwriter & visual artist Mark Lang has released a 6 min video highlighting pollution and environmental…
- BANGKOK — A fleet of drones, trucks and small planes sprayed water to try to reduce air pollution around Bangkok on…
- Based on sheer scale and audacity, the plan to build the KSM mine near the Alaska border is more science fiction…
- Bayer shares plunged as much as 14 per cent on Monday, losing about $14 billion in value, after newly acquired…
- Before 2011 global investment in clean energy (wind, solar, biomass, biofuels etc.) grew rapidly.
- Bernier sat down in studio this week with As It Happens host Carol Off to discuss his plan to create the People’s…
- Bill C-69 is aimed at restoring some of the environmental protections that were gutted by the previous Harper regime.
- Blue-green algae typically grows rapidly in areas where there is an abundance of nutrients like phosphorus and…
- Blueberry’s traditional territory is at the centre of one of the biggest deposits of natural gas on the planet, the…
- Born off the coast of Africa, Hurricane Florence followed an extraordinarily straight path to the U.S.
- Both The Guardian and the New York Times pick up on the IEA’s conclusion that renewable energy is surging and fossil…
- Both TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline and Enbridge’s Platte pipeline run parallel to each other through the area.
- BP still has other unexplored claims, and yet another company has plans to start seismic testing next spring, Keddy…
- Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen a new foreign minister who believes climate change is part of a…
- Brian Gaulke, a member of the local chapter of the Council of Canadians as well as the North Shore environmental…
- Brian Hebert, the lawyer for the Pictou Landing First Nation, said in an interview that the court decision means the…
- Briar Haven
- Built with construction techniques used in Europe for years, it’s designed to be up to 90 per cent more energy…
- But he said there is no guarantee that the study will lead to any changes to the reserve’s current water and sewer…
- But it’s frustrating that the government keeps watering down and delaying climate change policies in order to…
- But on Friday, Naval Energies announced it was out of the tidal turbine business and would instead concentrate its…
- But on Main Street on Thursday, protesters said any fracking in New Brunswick is too close to home.
- California Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou granted an early trial Thursday to elderly couple Alva and Alberta…
- Canada is to join more than a dozen countries Wednesday in signing a deal that would block commercial fishing in the…
- Canada poised to be a leader in cleantech oil and gas innovation | Tech Innovation | JWN Energy
- Canada talks the talk but lacks any real action. None of these six positive stories are about Canada…
- Canada’s environmental assessment agency is seeking public comments on a proposed gold mine on the Eastern Shore.
- Canada’s energy regulator will tell the federal government on Friday whether it still thinks the Trans Mountain…
- Canadian politicians have expressed alarm that one of Canada’s biggest pension investment funds has increased…
- Canadian seafood giant Clearwater was convicted of “gross violation” of fisheries regulations last fall after senior…
- Canadian taxpayers will be on the hook for another $2-billion fossil fuel subsidy if the National Energy Board…
- Carbon emissions rose sharply last year, increasing 3.4%, according to new estimates from the economic firm Rhodium…
- Carbon pollution from Canada’s fossil industry and some questionable assumptions about carbon credits are driving…
- Carbon pricing is “sort of a red herring,” says Jessica Green, associate professor of political science at the…
- CBC has obtained seven statements of claim registered with either the Federal Court of Canada or the Supreme Court…
- CHENGANNUR, India — Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a…
- China is now the world’s largest renewable energy investor.
- China, Russia and Canada’s current climate policies would drive the world above a catastrophic 5C of warming by the…
- Chronic exposure to air pollution from greenhouse-gas-emitting activities is contributing to the deaths of an…
- Clayton Thomas-Muller, a Cree climate campaigner for 350.org, told APTN News Monday he welcomed the debate but was…
- Climate change is here, experts say, and Canada can expect to suffer the consequences.
- Climate change was a factor in the wildfires that swept through 12 million hectares of southern British Columbia in…
- Climate change was responsible for the majority of under-reported humanitarian disasters last year, according to…
- Climate change, which will ruin our planet, is not ideological.
- Coastal GasLink is a 670-kilometre (420 mile) pipeline designed to transport natural gas from the Montney…
- Collin O’Mara, the president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, went on Wednesday with a charter boat…
- Combined with a previous solar panel installation at Penticton Secondary, the district stands to save about $30,000…
- Comley said water temperature and weather conditions could explain some of the decline, with fishermen reporting…
- Concerned citizens have 30 days from Wednesday to comment on the proposal.
- Considering the recent oil price crash in Western Canada and the fact a provincial election is expected in the…
- Consistent with the ecological forestry paradigm, the objective of forestry practices in Nova Scotia should be,…
- Construction crews working on the controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline are bulldozing traplines in Wetsu’we’ten…
- Construction is going ahead on a massive, $40-billion liquefied natural gas project in northern B.C., hours after…
- Corridor Resources invited New Brunswick MLAs to tour shale gas fields in the Sussex area on Tuesday, but they were…
- Could be the start…
- Council of Canadians supporters and chapter activists have been taking part in solidarity actions from coast to…
- Crabs that have a normal diet of a type of plankton have been seen munching on methane-filled bacteria off British…
- Critics worry that not only are orphan wells already sitting neglected in farmers’ fields across the province, but…
- Currently, 99 per cent of Canadian oil exports go to the U.S.
- Danny George and others again raising alarms on Social Media, this time not about harvesting Old Growth but about…
- Days of “unprecedented” rainfall earlier this month led to widespread flooding across the state, causing power…
- Death by a thousand cuts refers to the slow slicing of humans as a method of torture and capital punishment that was…
- Depending on who you ask, the work taking place along the forest service road past Unist’ot’en is either scheduled…
- Despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s argument that the pipeline is in the best interests of Canada, Berman vows…
- Despite stubborn opposition from the B.C.
- Developing plantations of fast-growing trees like GE poplars for biofuel, biomass or other raw materials could lead…
- Did you know that ‘PowerShift: Young and Rising’ rallied for four days in Ottawa before the ‘United We Roll’ (former…
- Disclosures and analysis of transaction-level data reveals that EDC provides, on average, over $10 billion in…
- Documents filed by the company to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency in relation to an application for…
- Documents released by the Department of the Interior — and then retracted a day later — reveal that agency officials…
- Don Wilson: a recent Supreme Court ruling says volumes about the Northern Pulp Mill’s future 18Dec2019 | Nova Scotia Forest Notes
- Donald Trump has finally explained why he has so much trouble getting his facts right on the reality of the global…
- Doug Ford’s principal secretary (who sets the overall political and policy strategy as head of the Premier’s Office)…
- Doug Pitt may change his mind since Health Canada says in light of “troubling allegations,” its scientists are…
- During the 2016 presidential campaign, countless climate experts voiced their concern about Trump, who had…
- Dzawada’enuxw First Nation filed a claim in Vancouver federal court Thursday alleging that 10 fish farms located in…
- Earlier this week, the Unist’ot’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation alleged on social media that pipeline contractors…
- Earlier this year, the Sipekne’katik First Nation told the UARB it had not been consulted as required under federal…
- Earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United…
- Earthquakes Canada confirmed the preliminary 3.7 magnitude quake hit at 9:49 local time, 17 kilometres north of the…
- Ecojustice, acting on behalf of clients including the Suzuki Foundation, Nature Québec and the Sierra Club, filed a…
- EDMONTON — Mentioning climate change can kill a conversation.
- EDMONTON — The year 2019 will decide whether Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP gets to finish the job of getting more oil…
- Edmonton, AB — In a decision released on Tuesday, the National Energy Board (NEB) rejected a motion supported by…
- Efforts to extract the bulk oil began in early August, and almost a month to the day later, the Coast Guard…
- Either support new pipelines or your community will be incinerated by an oil-carrying train.
- Ellen Page said the provincial government must stop its “corporate welfare” for Northern Pulp, which Page said is…
- Emergency crews were searching Wednesday through charred homes and cars for those still missing after the deadliest…
- Enbridge had paid the National Energy Board $14.7 million in regulatory fees to monitor the pipeline’s construction…
- Enbridge Inc.
- Enbridge Inc.
- Enbridge, a Canada-based energy company that claims to own the world’s longest fossil fuel transportation network,…
- Energy Transfer Partners, which owns more than 83,000 miles of natural gas, crude oil, natural gas liquids and…
- Engineers at the University of Calgary say they’ve come up with a fresh and effective new technique in the global…
- Environment and Climate Change Canada raised a litany of concerns with Teck Resources’s proposed Frontier Oilsands…
- Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the federal government plans to disburse money from a climate fund…
- Environmental Defence, along with Stand Earth, released a report at the conference to show that emissions from the…
- Eugene Kung with West Coast Environmental Law says the project won’t have legal certainty any time soon, as several…
- Evanthia and Rose have recently learned that a global energy company, Repsol, plans to extract 1.8 billion litres of…
- Even when it sets out to fund clean technology, the Canadian government can’t seem to leave behind its default…
- Everyone knows plants need CO2 to grow.
- Executives from the biggest #oilsands companies in Canada say concerns about getting their products to market are…
- Federal risk assessment showed TC Energy they could break the law, trample indigenous rights (Wet’suwet’en) — and…
- Filled with exemptions for large producers and consumers alike, the carbon pricing framework was designed to spur…
- First the good news.
- First, the good news.
- First, what it means for the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world.
- Fish are losing their sense of smell as rising carbon emissions turn the water they live in to acid.
- Fishermen in eastern Cape Breton will appeal to two federal ministers to stop plans by the operators of the Donkin…
- Fishing operators in Newfoundland and Labrador are urging a federal-provincial regulator to stop seismic testing by…
- Five new green energy collaborations between private companies and Alberta First Nations are expected to create…
- Flooding, sewage overflow, blue-green algae and poor water quality have become all-too familiar issues in New…
- For many, the Mount Polley mine is the most immediate concern when it comes to clean up.
- For the past 12 years, a Calgary-based company has been planning to pump water from the river to an underground site…
- FORBES 2013
- Formaldehyde is one of the most commonly used chemicals in the nation.
- Former Bisha mine workers are suing Nevsun in B.C.
- Fossil fuel subsidies support an industry that pollutes our air and water and they undermine action on climate…
- Found in air conditioners and aerosols, hydrofluorocarbons—or HFCs—are thousands of times more powerful drivers of…
- Four years after the disaster, the mine has not paid a cent in fines.
- FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Crown-owned power utility is partnering with a Florida-based company to develop power…
- From 1970 to 2014, 60 percent of all animals with a backbone — fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals –…
- From Cheerios to Oreos to chocolate glazed Timbits, a controversial weed-killing chemical has been found in several…
- From coast-to-coast-to-coast, virtually nowhere was spared extreme weather in 2018. #cdnpoli
- From kids marching for their lives and striking for the climate, to anti-coal activists in Kenya, Bangladesh and…
- From rigged nomination battles and grassroots anger directed at #Kenney’s inner circle to allegations of fraud,…
- From two years ago:
- Frustrated U.S.
- Gaspé is a place of majestic views and hardy people.
- Germany must withdraw a US$4-billion loan guarantee that would enable Calgary-based Pieridae Energy Ltd.
- Glyphosate performs two primary functions in fertile soil which is a living organism, rich in beneficial microbes;…
- Governments in 19 of the world’s 20 biggest economies—including Canada—are still paying closer attention to fossil…
- GREAT FALLS, Mont.
- Greenpeace, which occupied a branch of Barclays on Wednesday morning and erected signs branding it “The Dirty Bank”,…
- HALIFAX — A proposed liquefied natural gas project says it has signed agreements with the Assembly of Nova Scotia…
- HALIFAX — Liberal backbencher Hugh MacKay should apologize for his insensitive Facebook post this weekend which…
- HALIFAX — Ottawa has posted a tender asking engineering firms to assess how climate change and extreme weather will…
- HALIFAX — The Northern Pulp mill is taking legal action after fishermen blocked survey boats hired to examine a…
- HALIFAX – The province’s Minister of Environment has a conflict of interest in relation to Northern Pulp’s proposed…
- HALIFAX — Canada’s environment minister said she’s no “quitter” despite calls Wednesday from David Suzuki for her to…
- HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Northern Pulp mill says it needs a one-year extension to the province’s legislated deadline…
- Harjeet Singh of ActionAid International said the main holdouts were the United States, Australia and Japan, while…
- He has said he is “not at all ashamed” of his lobbying for Murray Energy Corp, the nation’s leading underground coal…
- He says Lahey was right to call for a focus on the forest first.
- He’s talking about GHG, not the mining industry, cement plants and the Northumberland Strait.
- Health Canada says in light of “troubling allegations,” its scientists are reviewing hundreds of studies used during…
- Hemp fiber has been used for thousands of years to make sailcloth, rope, twine, and clothing.
- Her appeal came as the province’s environment minister, Iain Rankin, made crystal clear his government won’t change…
- Her preliminary results found “plastic contamination” in the flesh of every clam she collected.#nspoli
- Her science project at age 11 convinced three levels of government to pledge over $15 million to help clean up the…
- Here are some of the wildest things Teck Resources’ lawyers told the panel during the hearings:
- Here we summarize some of the littler-known features that have shifted in the face of climate change and pulled the…
- Here’s how it works.
- Here’s a look at the climate-change-fueled natural disasters taking place across the globe.
- Here’s what you need to know about how that $1 billion breaks down, what it will be spent on, and how it will likely…
- Higgs said he would meet with Corridor Resources CEO Steve Moran next week about how to let the company resume…
- HOW WILL THEY DO IT?
- Human Rights Watch found that people in many exposed communities fear reprisals from large landowners.
- Hundreds of thousands of cattle weakened from a severe drought are feared to have died in record-breaking floods in…
- Hurricane Michael intensified into a Category 4 storm early Wednesday morning as it whirled towards the Florida…
- Hydro dams produce about eight per cent of the province’s electricity.
- I am a little perturbed this week.
- I don’t know about you, but sometimes I think about sustainability and get depressed.
- I guess subsidies are only for the fossil fuel indistry then?
- I’ve heard from businesses that natural gas expansion is important to grow and compete.
- I’m Nermeen Shaikh.
- If it cost $36 billion in 2015, what do you think it will cost four years later?
- If the project is never built, the value of the pipeline with no revenue generating capacity is between 1.8 billion…
- If the technology is successful, the oil industry would be able to sell bitumen close to world oil prices without…
- IF they extend Boat Harbour either because NP can’t come up with another plan and the govt caves or if they were to…
- If Trudeau had not purchased Trans Mountain, it’s pretty reasonable to assume this ruling would have been the…
- If we want to understand what’s driving this heat wave — and if we should expect more of the same — we need to look…
- In 2004, Hurricane Ivan triggered an undersea mudslide that sank an oil platform owned by Taylor Energy.
- In 2009, G20 countries meeting in Pittsburgh affirmed that “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies encourage wasteful…
- In 2015 an omnibus federal budget bill passed through Parliament, it ushered in a new era in Canadian history.
- In 30 different assessments filed between 2004 and 2017, Ford found each study considered different factors in…
- In a climate-policy retreat over the treatment of coal, federal Liberals are proposing to loosen emission standards…
- In a decision without precedent in its 25 years of existence, British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office has…
- In a showdown in Pictou Harbour Monday morning, a fleet of fishing boats forced a survey vessel back to port.
- In an interview with two of her co-stars, the Halifax-born Oscar nominee said she feels a responsibility to amplify…
- In April, Julie Gelfand, Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, released a damning…
- In August and September 2018, ten new permits were issued for spraying “pesticides”, VisionMax on more than 4,400…
- In Beauceville Qubec the municipality recommends turning off ventilation systems to prevent potentially toxic fumes…
- In Finland, where the average July temperature is about 18C (64.4F), the mercury has topped 30C in places.
- In his column, Mason brings home the impact for the Alberta tar sands/oil sands industry, and for the province that…
- In its latest assessment, the company identified four additional factors that might affect costs and schedule for…
- In its outlook, Suncor maintained its December production guidance for 2019 that forecast production growth of 10…
- In late June the B.C.
- In much of the region, ocean temperatures at the surface last month were two to three degrees higher than the…
- In October, Trudeau told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning that it’s difficult to break the Saudi LAV deal because of the…
- In recent years, the rising sea level has been swallowing up the beach.
- In the days since the spill, this system has received a barrage of criticism for the fact that, not only does the…
- In the Tsilhqot’in Nation decision in 2014, the SCC held that where First Nations hold Aboriginal title (a type of…
- In this video by WWF-Canada from September, two sperm whales are spotted swimming near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, much…
- In those early days, once the gold was extracted, the leftover material, called tailings, was simply dumped into…
- In total, the study determined that investments in energy efficiency would create 25,879 jobs in New Brunswick…
- Included in the announcement is $1 billion in commercial loans available through Export Development Canada and $500…
- Independent research consistently documents serious health problems associated with low-dose exposure to BPA, yet…
- India’s toxic air claimed 1.24 million lives in 2017, or 12.5 per cent of total deaths recorded that year, according…
- Information gathered through environmental effects monitoring (EEM) at all Canadian mills points to the disturbing…
- Insects populations worldwide are crashing and a new study has confirmed that the major culprits are loss of habitat…
- Interesting to note that there wasn’t any mention of Pulp mills, coal mines, fracking wastewater that leaked into…
- Ironically, within days from this announcement, three interesting revelations came to light in other parts of the…
- Irving Oil says a “major incident” has occurred at its Saint John refinery, after reports of an explosion and fire…
- Isn’t that the Lebanese way that you solve your own problems without relying on your government?
- It has been calculated by economist Blake Shaffer that the cleanest coal plants, despite being much much dirtier…
- It is against federal regulations in the federal Fisheries Act to deposit brine into a body of water where fish…
- It is our new Sydney Steel, a thing whose rationale for existing has simply run out, which is more trouble than it’s…
- It seems the Liberal government is becoming very comfortable at breaking their own environmental laws when it comes…
- It was — the diplomat had heard about Joe-Strack at an Arctic conference.
- It was carrying tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada.
- It’s difficult to pinpoint what impact the CFS could have since the policy is still being developed, however it…
- It’s doubtful that we can expect any help from the federal government.
- It’s full of decades of contaminants — including cadmium, dioxins, furans and mercury — and continues to take in…
- It’s a mega-project with shaky economics, tons of nasty regional politics and the potential to cost billions of…
- It’s been a strange year in a lot of ways, and the weather is no exception.
- It’s fairly well known that a bad diet, a lack of exercise, and genetics can all contribute to type 2 diabetes.
- Its name sounds dangerous — the samurai wasp — but the tiny invasive parasite’s appearance in Canada for the first…
- Its often said and it’s often true that people confuse deforestation and clearcutting, which is true.
- Jason Kenney, the leader of the United Conservative Party of Alberta, says if he were elected premier, he would fund…
- Johnson, a former school groundskeeper in northern California who is terminally ill, was testifying Monday in his…
- JPMorgan Chase, the Bank of Montreal, Deutsche Bank, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce are the four most…
- Judgment may keep bankrupt companies from walking, but some say regulatory reform is what’s really needed.
- July 25, 2018, Unceded Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver BC) – The Assembly of First Nations National Youth Council…
- K’JIPUKTUK (Halifax) – News of BP Canada’s dry well offshore Nova Scotia is an opportunity for change, according to…
- KATOWICE, Poland — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the climate summit in Poland by issuing a dramatic…
- Ken Summers shared these links about the meeting in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, on fracking
- Kinder Morgan Inc.
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – As we reported earlier, the Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Board (NS-UARB) is deciding…
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Feeling the pressure of increased public scrutiny, the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum…
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Few Nova Scotians realize how massive a financial undertaking the Goldboro LNG export plant is.
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Following a well-attended rally in Halifax on Tuesday this week, the Campaign to Protect…
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – The planned release of treated effluents into the Northumberland Strait by Northern Pulp is a…
- Lamma Island residents worried about a potential oil spill reaching their coastline.
- Last month the province received a review on forestry by University of King’s College president Bill Lahey that…
- Last week, #California state lawmakers passed State Senator (and candidate for US Senate) Kevin de León’s SB 100,…
- Last week, #McKenna admitted to knowing what the United Nations was going to publish, but doubled down on the…
- Last week, council voted in favour of a motion to start the process of getting the watershed designated as a…
- Last week, when a brand-new open-pit mine was officially opened in the oilsands of northern Alberta it was dubbed by…
- Last year, a team of scientists spotted what they believed was a hybrid animal off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii.
- Last year, the government announced it was giving the provinces and territories until the beginning of September to…
- Later, a man who identified himself as Arnie Jack from the Shuswap Nation said Canada does not have a deed to its…
- Less than a week after two of Canada’s top five tar sands/oil sands producers announced they were cutting back…
- Let it be noted for the record: Alberta may be the first province in history to lament the arrival of buckets of…
- Local and national environmental groups are urging Environment and Climate Minister Catherine McKenna to review a…
- Looks like the “wild west” is “wide open” after-all…
- Los Angeles is walking away from a plan to spend billions of dollars rebuilding three natural gas power plants along…
- Louis Bergeron says it is a “totally different project” with a lot of benefits for northern Ontario.
- Luckily this young lady’s story was picked up by the news and people volunteered to help.
- Lunenburg, 23 July, 2018 – Giving BP, one of the world’s worst polluters, the go-ahead to resume drilling for oil…
- Mabee said ending low subsidies, particularly wind power would be detrimental.
- Manitoba no longer has coal-burning power operations, as Manitoba Hydro says it has quit using its final…
- Many Albertans would prefer to believe that once the Trans Mountain pipeline is rammed through, the good times will…
- Many eyes will be on the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal this week as the court hears the provincial government’s…
- Many of the dire predictions came true.
- Many shrimp-like invertebrates found here may not have any direct economic importance, but are important as food for…
- Martin, who left Nalcor in 2016 under a cloud of controversy over cost and schedule overruns, was stone-faced the…
- Mawhinney said the initial concern was because the fire was so close to the tank farm, adding that the winds were…
- Maybe he Liberals will have to buy #MuskratFalls
- McNeil told reporters Tuesday his government is examining the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling and would “have more…
- Mexican officials say the death toll from a Jan.
- MEXICO CITY – Mexican environmental authorities are investigating the deaths of more than 100 endangered sea turtles…
- Mike LeBourdais, chief of the Whispering Pines First Nation between Kamloops and Barriere, has been travelling the…
- Miller and others welcomed the news the provincial government is granting legal protection to land known as the…
- Miller’s letter to the company said concerns were raised by members of the public, Mi’kmaq groups and the province’s…
- Mining company Westmoreland Coal, which purchased five coal mines in Alberta, is suing Canada for $470 million under…
- Mittermeier said while she and SeaLegacy co-founder Paul Nicklen had taken photos and video of the bear on Somerset…
- Monsanto knowingly manipulated scientific papers without disclosing their involvement.
- More than 1,600 species are listed as endangered or threatened, while the sage-grouse and others are nearing that…
- More than 100,000 litres of oil and water have leaked into a marsh east of Jenner in southern Alberta, according to…
- More than 30 chemical elements were detected in the airborne particles at Trudeau airport.
- More than 400 dead or stranded seals have washed up on the Maine coast so far this year, more than in any of the…
- More than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a…
- More than one hundred municipal wastewater systems did not report how much raw sewage overflowed from their pipes in…
- Most of the 38 industrial activities covered by the draft regulations face a standard test of 80 per cent of the…
- MP Charlie Angus says he is “shaken up” after visiting a remote First Nation in northern Ontario, where seemingly…
- MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.
- N.S. government extends Northern Pulp’s use of Boat Harbour wastewater treatment plant until April – Halifax | Globalnews.ca
- Nalcor is asking that “commercially sensitive” information be redacted in the versions of the report released to…
- Natural gas prices in Western Canada are so low that a partner in the country’s first LNG export project is shutting…
- Natural Resources Canada said a 4.6-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of central Alberta just before 6 a.m.
- NDP environment critic Lenore Zann said she submitted questions to provincial Environment Minister Margaret Miller…
- Nearly a year after the Liberal government announced it would carve out Nalcor Energy’s oil and gas division, the…
- Negotiators at COP24 took time out Sunday to rest after the first week of talks ended on a sour note the previous…
- Neville Crabbe, director of communications with the Atlantic Salmon Federation, confirmed Saint John River salmon…
- New and amended regulations will support Nova Scotia’s cap-and-trade program, which will begin Jan. 1.
- New Brunswick-based Community Forest International is trying to adapt forests worldwide to the effects of climate…
- New developments would be exempt from drinking water source protection plans, and could be built regardless of their…
- New research shows Export Development Canada (EDC) provides 12 times as much financial backing to oil and gas…
- Newfoundland and Labrador and Equinor Canada have announced an agreement to develop the Bay du Nord oil project —…
- Newfoundland and Labrador’s approach to regulatory oversight of Muskrat Falls does not meet the standards of other…
- Newfoundland is one of the few places in the world where capelin use beaches to spawn, said Neville.
- No mention of Biomass consumption in the province was included in the report.
- No mention of GHG created by LNG, Paris Accord or global warming. They must have forgot about this…
- No one in America has ever experienced the wrath and fury of a category 6 hurricane, which now genuinely seems…
- Northern pulp appeals ministerial cleanup order, pauses environmental assessment – HalifaxToday.ca
- Northern Pulp plans to shut down Nova Scotia mill after premier refuses to grant extension | CBC News
- Northrup was quick to add that fracking will only be welcome in communities where there is public support.
- Northumberland Strait Is Being Poisoned
- Not a big fan of mining, but this reduces a lot of jobs…
- Not as hard to imagine as one might think. Lethbridge, Alberta was at 46 degrees two days ago.
- Note: Canada didn’t make the list…
- Nothing was spilled. Still, there have been quite a few derailments the last month or so…
- Notley said she spoke with the prime minister following the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision Thursday to overturn…
- Nova Scotia defers decision on Northern Pulp proposal, asks for more information | Globalnews.ca
- Nova Scotia Energy Minister Derek Mombourquette said last week there are no plans to retrieve the turbine as of yet,…
- Nova Scotia Lands, the provincial environmental cleanup agency, issued a request for proposals last month on how to…
- Nova Scotia may become home to another new gold mine if a proposed Guysborough County project receives environmental…
- Nova Scotia Power will be burning #Donkin coal at the Lingan generating station for several years under a new…
- Nova Scotia Power’s Tufts Cove plant leaked oil into Halifax harbour Thursday afternoon.
- Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil insisted Thursday there was no attempt to hide a $6-million payment last year to…
- Nova Scotia pulp mill issues layoff notices as facility winds down operations | CTV News Atlantic
- Nova Scotia will maintain a moratorium on long-term leases for timber harvesting on Crown lands until it “digests” a…
- Nova Scotia’s biggest contaminated site will get a federal environmental assessment before the cleanup begins.
- Nova Scotia’s energy minister said Wednesday he was “well aware” the turbine can’t be removed during the winter.
- Nova Scotia’s forestry transition team to spend $7M on silviculture | CBC News
- Nova Scotia’s labour minister says the threat of closure is his best tool to penalize a coal mine that broke mining…
- Nova Scotians now have access to the details of Northern Pulp’s controversial plan to build a new effluent treatment…
- Now the Trump administration is poised to tip FERC’s balance by appointing a fossil fuel advocate as one of five…
- NRDC: Missing the Forest – How Carbon Loopholes for Logging Hinder Canada’s Climate Leadership (PDF) – Missing-the-Forest.pdf
- Objective:
- OCTOBER 24, 2013
- Of the 26 stocks deemed critical, most are finfish in Atlantic Canada.
- Oil Change International, a clean energy advocacy group that conducted the study, estimated aid to Africa’s energy…
- Oil is being put on trains and moved across Canada in increasing numbers.
- On July 6, 2018, there will be a sight never seen before in Nova Scotia.
- On Monday representatives of environmental group Stand.earth announced they had filed a motion with the NEB to…
- On Monday, twin fires being treated as one incident north of San Francisco became the largest wildfire in state…
- On Oct.
- On Thursday, Sen.
- On Thursday, the UN World Meteorological Organization said global temperatures are headed for a rise of 3 to 5 C…
- One potential benefit of this system is that electric cars could be charged in seconds, as the material is a…
- Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources says 12 of the 39 fires burning across the northeastern part of the province…
- Other countries know that Canada is struggling to meet its own targets, that the Liberal government is facing legal…
- OTTAWA — The federal government will begin phasing out the outdoor use of nicotine-based pesticides beginning in…
- OTTAWA — American lawyers who successfully sued the makers of the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup on behalf of a…
- OTTAWA — Canada will not sign on to an amendment to an international treaty that could bar three dozen countries…
- Ottawa is sending in the Armed Forces as B.C.
- Ottawa won’t assess N.S. mill’s pipeline proposal, leaving it up to the province | Estevan Mercury
- Ottawa won’t do impact assessment on Northern Pulp effluent treatment plan | CBC News
- Ottawa, January 14, 2018 – Today, Health Canada is releasing online, responses to eight objections to…
- Ottawa, Ont.
- Our federal government has decided to pay $4.5 billion for this aging pipeline.
- Over the last decade, Lake Erie has suffered from increasingly frequent and severe algae blooms, thanks in part to a…
- PARIS (Reuters) – A French court canceled the license for one of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkillers on Tuesday…
- People were shocked to witness the birds, believed to be starlings, plunge to the ground near the BC Ferries…
- People’s Alliance Leader Kris Austin says the new Higgs government will be making “a wrong move” if it allows shale…
- Pepin says over the past 3-4 years, scientists have seen a persistent drop in phytoplankton and zooplankton in…
- Pictou Mayor Jim Ryan said the town’s problems with the plan only grew when officials learned Plan B, which would…
- PICTOU, N.S.
- Please sign and share #StopAltonGas #nspoli
- Poisonous air is having a devastating impact on billions of children around the world, damaging their intelligence…
- Poitras said Alberta First Nations support the legislation because it gives Indigenous communities a greater say…
- Polyethylene, which is used in plastic bags and is the most used and discarded plastic in the world, emitted the…
- PORTLAND, Maine — Valuable species of shellfish have become harder to find on the East Coast because of degraded…
- Premier François Legault said he doesn’t want to hear any more talk about oil pipelines crossing Quebec because the…
- Premier Rachel Notley announces Wednesday the province is investing $80 million in future royalty credits in a…
- Premier’s delay on Boat Harbour decision draws opposition ire | CBC News
- President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed a study produced by his own administration, involving 13 federal agencies…
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government have promised to stop subsidizing fossil fuels in Canada—that was a…
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said the Trans Mountain expansion is in the “best interest of all Canadians” and…
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is overhauling how Canada assesses big energy projects in a bid to ensure new…
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is willing to consider helping Alberta Premier Rachel Notley fund the purchase…
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has no intention of reviving the failed Energy East pipeline…
- Proponents of Canada’s energy sector are raising the alarm about Ottawa’s move to overhaul the environmental…
- Public hearings for Teck Resources’ colossal Frontier mine project begin this week — opening an intense debate about…
- Questions around the potential closure of the Northern Pulp mill in Abercrombie, N.S., will grab a share of the…
- Rankin and McNeil may be two of the last remaining people in the province who believe it’s possible for Northern…
- Ray Plourde, the wilderness co-ordinator for the Halifax-based Ecology Action Centre, is dead set against government…
- Reacting to footage of the “invasion” by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), author and activist Naomi Klein…
- Recent events such as the prolonged rains of hurricanes Harvey and Florence and the persistent drought across the…
- Record-breaking temperatures have lasted for nearly a week, with the mercury reaching 38C or higher in parts of…
- Researchers estimate the population of birds may have been evolving separately on Haida Gwaii for 20,000 years —…
- Researchers said they made the conclusions after exposing four groups of sockeye salmon eggs to four different…
- Residents of a rural community in Nova Scotia’s #Shelburne County are upset that a 105-hectare clearcut has been…
- Residents within a 200- to 300-hundred kilometre radius of Canada’s largest city will be able to purchase hundreds…
- Retired Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci will lead the new consultation process with Indigenous people on the…
- Reviewers watching over the production of a crucial special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
- Right: Fraser Institute, C.D.
- RIMINI, Mont.
- Roughly a dozen companies that produce more than 50,000 tonnes of carbon per year — including big players like Koch…
- Saltier lakes can affect the entire water ecosystem, from the fish to the invertebrates they eat to tiny plankton.
- San Francisco jurors just ruled that that Roundup, the most popular weedkiller in the world, gave a former school…
- School strikes across Canada are beginning to gather momentum and media attention, with student leaders from…
- Scotiabank’s report fails to mention that the bank has invested $9.957 Billion over the last three years, providing…
- Second earthquake in six days.
- Sen.
- Shares in gas and power company AltaGas Ltd.
- Shell, which acquired BG Group in 2016 for $54 billion to boost its gas output, is nearing a decision on the…
- Silvopasture is more effective than other grassland techniques, Drawdown explains, because it can sequester carbon…
- Since 2013, 245 of these accounts retweeted messages from Canadian activists, politicians and media reports about…
- Since the 1970s, scientists and engineers have understood that injecting water directly into faults can jack the…
- Slett said her community has already seen what can happen after even a relatively small spill.
- Small amounts of selenium are needed by humans, but larger amounts can cause problems ranging from stomach upsets to…
- So we wait another year… and as we can, do the government’s due diligence for them, clearcut by clearcut. #nspoli
- Sockeye salmon are on a mission up B.C.’s Fraser River right now, swimming “a marathon a day” to reach the gravel…
- Some spray sites include land adjacent to the Raven Head Wilderness protected area near Joggins, N.S., on the shore…
- Somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 fish escaped from Cooke Aquaculture’s Hermitage Bay salmon farm on Newfoundland’s…
- Sounds nice!
- Sounds to me like Trudeau would like to force this upon them…
- South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster ordered about 1 million residents along his state’s coastline to leave…
- Southern California is not only sweltering under extreme heat, the city of Imperial actually witnessed rainfall when…
- ST.
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- Summary of the David Wheeler Report for Premier Houston in Nova Scotia
- SUNLAND, Calif. (KABC) —
- Sunnier days are ahead for Saskatchewan homeowners who generate solar power.
- Susan (who requested The Narwhal not use her full name for privacy reasons) submitted an advertising standards…
- Tap water is still fine to consume, but residents and businesses in the area are being advised to limit their water…
- Tavish Campbell says little has changed since he collected samples from bloody waste discharged into the ocean last…
- Temperature records have tumbled across South Australia, with the city of Adelaide experiencing its hottest day on…
- Temperature rises as a result of global warming could eventually be double what has been projected by climate…
- Ten years ago, Ontario was developing new wind power projects at a cost of 28 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), the…
- Tensions began last week, when newly minted Quebec Premier François Legault said at a First Ministers’ meeting in…
- Thank you Ant Holzer — good article from last year shows how climate change is affecting the north…
- Thank you Marnie Abrahamson
- Thanks Briar Haven
- Thanks Briar Haven
- Thanks Briar Haven
- The 10 million-ton-per-year Goldboro LNG facility hopes to benefit from its geographical location in Nova Scotia,…
- The accusations comes as court records show that OpenHydro’s management knew it was heading to insolvency before the…
- The Alberta government has once again intervened in the energy sector, signing contracts to spend $3.7 billion to…
- The Alkali Lake wildfire was measured at a “rough” 100,000 hectares after it merged with three other fires in the…
- The American benchmark price for oil is now well below $60 a barrel, having dropped $20 in the last six weeks.
- The area has known of its water problem for decades now.
- The Ben Eoin trailer park sits atop a classic barachois, the word used in Atlantic Canada, Saint Pierre and…
- The bike lane runs from the 500 Block of the Old Sambro Road (Hwy 306) right out to Sambro.
- The blog followed up a day later, reporting that several Ontario Parks employees had “reached out to confirm the…
- The Boat Harbour treatment facility is owned by the provincial government, which is on the hook for the cleanup once…
- The body representing the mining industry in Canada’s Nova Scotia has released a report that recommends $19.5…
- The British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission is investigating a series of earthquakes that one expert says were very…
- The Calgary-based developer of the Keystone XL oil pipeline plans to start construction next year, after a U.S.
- The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board says in a statement on its website that operations…
- The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) is inviting public feedback to determine whether or not a…
- The Canadian government is set to become the official owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after failing…
- The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK for the first time, in a milestone…
- The case has often been regarded as a crucial test of the ‘polluter pays’ principle.
- The case will be heard March 12 in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Alton spokesperson Lori MacLean said Friday.
- The CBC has reported that the tailings dam has been likened by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB) to…
- The City of Edmonton wants all of its operations to be powered by renewable energy sources by 2030, and is looking…
- The City of Longueuil has been given the green light to dump more than 150 million litres of raw sewage into the St.
- The claim that carbon pricing will kill jobs may be powerful rhetoric, but it’s simply not true.
- The clearest picture yet of coal ash contamination in the United States is emerging, with utilities reporting…
- The collaboration includes Alhol Forestry Coop Limited of Amherst, Conform Limited of Middle Musquodoboit, North…
- The comments come amid the government’s effort to meet a Federal Court of Appeal directive last August stemming from…
- The company building the long-contested Keystone XL oil pipeline notified the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in a letter…
- The company said in a release that its mill near the Reversing Falls tourist attraction in Saint John failed to meet…
- The country’s leading fossil lobby wants provincial policies that will double the Alberta fossil industry’s growth…
- The culprit turned out to be E.
- The current outbreak, which began in October 2017 off southwest Florida, has been tied to a record 589 sea turtle…
- The Dalhousie University research associate said Cooke has had problems at its current site in Liverpool Bay,…
- The deadline matters because the mill’s provincial industrial approval expires Jan.
- The demands are outlined in a petition signed by more than 60,000 people, dropped off at the local office of Halifax…
- The Department of Energy and Mines has issued a marine renewable energy permit to Black Rock Tidal Power allowing it…
- The Department of Environment has issued six new approvals for pesticide spraying covering about 1,351 hectares.
- The Derailment of Climate Talks by Polluters
- The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish…
- The documents don’t say where the contaminants come from and Public Works wasn’t able to speak to CBC News about the…
- The Doug Ford government’s decision to cancel Ontario’s carbon cap-and-trade program could increase the province’s…
- The electrical grid has some bottlenecks, he said.
- The elephant in the room and the inconvenient truth for politicians who traffic in this tin-foil absurdity is that…
- The energy regulator says an increase in tanker traffic resulting from the pipeline would hurt southern resident…
- The EU is on track to meet its 2020 renewable target, with 11 member states already above their national targets,”…
- The European Parliament decision Tuesday calls for energy savings of 32.5% by 2030, with renewable energy meeting…
- The facility, located at the site of the former barite mine near Walton, will contain explosives to be used in oil…
- The federal government and B.C.
- The federal government is likely to own the Trans Mountain pipeline until the political risks facing the project are…
- The federal government is stepping in to regulate a company’s controversial plan to use water from one of Nova…
- The federal government stated in December 2015 that the community would get a new treatment plant by May 2018.
- The federal government, the Yukon and Northwest Territories governments, and several First Nations are pushing back…
- The federal plan requires provinces and territories to put a price on carbon emissions — through a cap and trade…
- The federal report says the last few years have smashed records for damaging weather in the U.S., costing nearly…
- The findings are scheduled for publication in the Aug.
- The first thing to know: most home insurance policies don’t include flood insurance at all, explained Pete…
- The fishing communities of Saugeen First Nation and Chippewas of Nawash are finding higher winds and warmer…
- The Forest at Wagner Lake, Shelburne County approved to be clear-cut: It’s not like we didn’t try.
- The Fourth National Climate Assessment, released Friday by the U.S.
- The full 2018 spray map is available at forestinfo.ca, a partnership between government and the forestry industry.
- The future of development in Alberta’s oilsands lies in underground, steam-assisted operations that represent some…
- The future of Northern Pulp and the way it treats 75 million litres of waste water each day is the subject of…
- The game-changing study from Duke University found that “from 2011 to 2016, the water use per well increased up to…
- The government is investing $1.6 million with Clearstone Engineering Ltd.
- The Government of Canada has lifted mandatory speed restrictions in the Gulf of St.
- The government’s purchase of the pipeline was met with mixed reviews when it was announced in April.
- The Great Lakes are 1.6 degrees Celsius warmer than they were in the 1940s, according to daily temperature readings…
- The group has been working with law students at the University of New Brunswick to research different compensation…
- The group of companies behind the mine, the Sisson Partnership, is in the process of applying for permission to dump…
- The group sees the risks of offshore drilling for oil and gas as outweighing any possible benefits.
- The group, called Extinction Rebellion, is today backed by almost 100 senior academics from across the UK, including…
- The growth of solar energy and electric vehicles is reducing the need for oil as a source of energy.
- The Guardian says the veteran U.S.
- The Gulf of Maine – which extends from Cape Cod in Massachusetts to Cape Sable at the southern tip of Nova Scotia,…
- The Gulf of St.
- The Healthy Forest Coalition, and our allies, will be gathering outside the courthouse for a peaceful but strong…
- The Honour the Treaties tour made international headlines, thanks in part to Young’s occasionally over-the-top…
- The judge’s decision will determine how much the public gets to see and hear in the coming months when the court…
- The jury ruled that the plaintiff, Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, developed cancer from repeated exposure to Roundup,…
- The largest oil spill in the province’s history has researchers calling for stronger oversight while government…
- The latest report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) erases any doubts about the inadequacy…
- The lawsuit argues that the fish farm licences have exposed wild salmon and eulachon (a smelt-like species that…
- The Lheidli T’enneh First Nation is taking Enbridge to court over a natural gas pipeline explosion near Prince…
- The Liberal government has withdrawn its appeal of a stunning 2018 court ruling that quashed a section of the Income…
- The Liberal government is curtailing its plan to price carbon pollution after hearing concerns from Canadian…
- The Liberals will bow to a federal court ruling and proceed with a review of how increased tanker traffic from the…
- The lives of countless peaceful protesters are jeopardized each year in land and environmental disputes, and a new…
- The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than…
- The Materials Safety Data Sheet for arsenic trioxide classifies it as a confirmed carcinogen that may cause damage…
- The Met office is predicting a 2.75 part per million CO2 increase for 2019, bringing total atmospheric…
- The Mikisew Cree First Nation, a band in northern Alberta, is appealing a ruling from the Federal Court of Appeal…
- The most important part of this recent report is that reaching this emissions target is not impossible.
- The multinational climbing team forming this unity blockade hails from the Indigenous Coast Salish community, B.C.,…
- The Muskrat Falls hydro megaproject, a massive dam and powerhouse harnessing the lower Churchill River near Happy…
- The Narwhal’s investigation into the muzzling of Parks Canada staff has created quite the stir in the month since it…
- The National Energy Board has rejected a request by Burnaby, B.C., that it rescind orders allowing the company…
- The National Energy Board says crude-by-rail exports from Canada set another record in June, rising to 204,558…
- The National Energy Board says Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC can start construction on sections of its pipeline…
- The National Energy Board would require the creation of a marine mammal protection program for the Trans Mountain…
- The National Energy Board’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has been overturned, but the…
- The NEB forecasts crude oil production will grow to 6.9 million barrels per day in 2040, up 58 per cent from 4.4…
- The New Brunswick Environment Department has confirmed J.D.
- The new Methane Emissions Reduction Program will help oil and gas facilities identify, reduce, improve or eliminate…
- The Nova Scotia government is eliminating a requirement that mining companies clean up or reclaim mine sites they…
- The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board has given the regulatory green light for Pieridae Energy to build a…
- The official Lao news agency KPL said the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in Attapeu province collapsed Monday…
- The Okanagan Valley is on fire.
- The operator of the Donkin coal mine is facing sanctions under the temporary foreign worker program after an…
- The orcas are also facing a new threat.
- The organization says they aim to remove about half of the garbage in the Great Pacific Patch within five years, and…
- The overall death toll from the outbreak of fires at both ends of the state stood at 25 on Sunday and appeared…
- The overarching question we should be asking ourselves is how fast we can get to 100% renewable energy and not just…
- The past four years have been the hottest on record, but new research shows the Earth was actually in a global…
- The politics of climate change are shifting against the GOP.
- The Port of Vancouver has cancelled a project permit for a controversial coal export terminal at the Fraser Surrey…
- The positive directions in British Columbia’s new climate plan will be offset by the greenhouse gas emissions from…
- The press release announcing CAPP’s Alberta Energy Platform claimed that it is intended to be non-partisan, yet it…
- The Progressive Conservative government’s plan, unveiled by Environment Minister Rod Phillips on Thursday, will see…
- The project, spearheaded by a junior Australian firm, seeks to build a lithium mine less than 100 meters from the…
- The project, which was initially expected to be in service before the end of 2019, now won’t be ready until the…
- The proposal to direct the money to a Miramichi River project far away from the St.
- The proposed legislation would make some marginal adjustments to that regime.
- The protesters say they’re worried barging coal from a proposed marine terminal in Morien Bay will encroach on their…
- The provincial environment commissioner has named eight towns in the northeast where sewage is polluting local…
- The provincial Environment Ministry made public documents filed in November last year on Thursday, detailling the…
- The provincial government is looking to extend the current moratorium on new or increasing permits to take…
- The provincial government offered a suite of tax breaks and incentives for #LNG Canada that results in $5.35 billion…
- The public has until Sept.
- The Public Utilities Commission unanimously rejected a motion by opponents to reconsider its previous decision to…
- The reappearance of gold mines in the province may be a blessing to some — but for others it’s opening an…
- The renewed [30 year old] plant and district energy system, a $26.5-million project that began operation this…
- The report accuses the industry of successfully lobbying Canada to water down climate policies or exempt it from…
- The report finds that over the last three fiscal years, the Alberta government has subsidized the fossil fuel…
- The report presents a sobering picture of the impact human activity has on the world’s wildlife, forests, oceans,…
- The researchers measure the impact of climate projections in the region on “wet bulb temperatures,” or TW, a way of…
- The ruling says that, between 1930 and 1995, Teck discharged about 400 tons of slag daily — an estimated 9.97…
- The scope of power outages has been reduced to about 5,000 households across New Brunswick — a significant drop…
- The senators say Northern Pulp’s “dangerous project” could damage the fishery in the Maritime provinces and Quebec’s…
- The Star investigated organic milk in Ontario, tracking the staple’s journey from cow to carton, and found the…
- The steep discounts being paid for Canadian heavy and light oil production compared with U.S.
- The Story of the Corbett Lake Affair and the Erosion of Trust in the Public Process #nspoli
- The study cites temperature shifts in the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current as a reason for the deoxygenation as…
- The study finds that in 2013 more than 330,000 square kilometres in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan absorbed acid…
- The suit does not charge Exxon with playing a role in creating climate change, though the burning of fossil fuels is…
- The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that energy companies cannot abandon their responsibility to clean up old oil…
- The town of Port Augusta in South Australia hit 48.9 degrees Celsius (approximately 120 degrees Fahrenheit) on…
- The transition from oil and gas to renewable power is already well underway and likely to reach a tipping point in…
- The truck traffic at Inter Pipeline’s construction site northeast of Edmonton seems to never stop, nor does the work…
- The Trump administration is appealing a court ruling that blocked the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
- The Trump administration moved to dismantle another major piece of former president Barack Obama’s environmental…
- The Trump administration on Tuesday rolled back an Obama-era rule that forced energy companies to capture methane —…
- The Trump administration will seek to revoke California’s authority to regulate automobile greenhouse gas emissions…
- The Trump administration’s decision to rescind new energy efficiency standards for light bulbs will cost consumers…
- The Tyee has excerpted key sections below.
- The United States Coast Guard is demanding an end to a 14-year oil spill that has dumped as much as 3.5 million…
- The United States may have reclaimed the title of the world’s biggest oil producer sooner than expected.
- The US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, has blamed environmentalists for California’s ferocious wildfires and…
- The vice-chair of a Senate committee studying a bill to overhaul the environmental assessment process for the…
- The West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations want construction frozen until a court case opposing the project…
- The White House proposed dramatically weakening fuel economy standards on Thursday, reversing the only major federal…
- Their feces — “what we call fecal pellets, or salp poop,” said Madin — serve an important ecological function.
- Their Frontier Mine would cost $20 billion, operate for 41 years, and extract 260,000 barrels of bitumen per day.
- There are 546 active fires burning across B.C.
- There are no easy answers for how to limit global warming to 1.5C, but the IPCC’s research does clarify the options.
- There are now no exploratory drilling projects happening off the coast of Nova Scotia, says a spokesperson for the…
- There are significant concerns about the use of Corexit on a spill of diluted bitumen (dilbit), a blend of bitumen…
- There has been a moratorium on the practice over the last four years and whether to allow it again has been an issue…
- There will come a day when people of all races, colors, and creeds will put aside their differences.
- There’s a growing uproar over the Trudeau government’s plans to allow a herring roe fishery in the Strait of Georgia…
- This comes as a B.C.
- This effluent will kill lobster larvae; it’s inevitable and would directly breach section 36 of the Federal…
- This is because the tropical Pacific ocean is expected to be warmer this year, which leads to hotter and drier…
- This is the #CarbonTax in Alberta working EXACTLY as designed. #abpoli #ableg
- This sleazy saga raises the question: If a government vows to respect judicial independence then throws it under the…
- This week, it was reported that the $40 billion #LNG terminal planned for Kitimat will get federal relief from…
- This work on the pollution record left behind in the shells of mussels could be of use for tracking spills and…
- Thousands of law enforcement officers and search and rescue teams rolled out in its wake to find survivors amid the…
- Three new solar farms will be built in southeastern Alberta to meet a power supply contract for provincial…
- Tim Houston, new leader of the Progressive Conservative party and his caucus have repeatedly criticized the Liberals…
- To achieve a more sustainable future, we need to tackle climate change, improve the health of the world’s oceans and…
- To be fair, all the G7 members are proving to be hypocrites, having collectively handed out more than $100 billion…
- To be fair, few politicians are emerging as climate heroes, regardless of where they sit on the political spectrum.
- To qualify as a passive house, a building’s energy use cannot be more than 10 per cent of a typical home in its…
- To the untrained eye, the rows of rocks piled near the tideline on British Columbia’s Quadra Island could easily be…
- Today’s announcement of over $1.6 billion in new grants, loans and financial supports for oil and gas companies caps…
- Top Northern Pulp official speaks as premier refuses to grant extension | CBC News
- Toronto topped the list, followed by Winnipeg, St. John’s and Vancouver.
- Toronto-based Anaconda Mining Inc.
- Toronto, Ont.
- Tracy Anne Cloud, director of trilateral negotiations with Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn said the area is the only land…
- TransCanada Corp.
- TransCanada Corporation abandoned the $15.7-billion project more than a year ago, after the National Energy Board…
- TransCanada Corporation is trying to sell off a majority share of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, the controversial,…
- Turns out, coconut oil fatty acids have strong repellency and long-lasting effectiveness against bloodsuckers and…
- Two organizations, Anqotum Resource Management and Homarus Inc., have partnered in the project to help restore…
- Two wildlife researchers are calling the government of the Northwest Territories’ incentive for wolf hunters a…
- Um, the problem isn’t energy efficient lights — the problem is using fossil fuels for heat.
- University of British Columbia scientists say they’ve found a cheap, sustainable way to build a solar cell using E.
- Unlike most other areas in north eastern NA, the landscapes of SW Nova Scotia have not recovered or have been very…
- Until some five years ago, the biggest environmental impact on Prince Edward Island from the pulp mill near Pictou,…
- Up to 300,000 barrels of oil a day are expected to flow from Alberta’s oil sands to Montreal’s refineries.
- Urgent changes at an unprecedented level never before seen in human history are needed to save the planet from…
- VANCOUVER – Wilderness Committee is aghast after the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) brazenly…
- VANCOUVER — Work on a Trans Mountain pipeline crossing in a British Columbia stream has destroyed salmon habitat,…
- Victoria has become the first city in British Columbia to support a class action lawsuit calling on fossil companies…
- Victory for Mi’kmaq as Nova Scotia’s Alton Gas Project Cancelled
- We all need to step back from the finger-pointing and political posturing in the wake of the Federal Court’s…
- We have federal and provincial governments that talk a good climate game, but other than an electric vehicle…
- We’ve written before about the benefits of leaving the leaves on the grass – it just makes for a much healthier lawn.
- We’ve scored the plan in ten key areas.
- Well now… if that isn’t an incentive to develop more renewable energy sources, I don’t know what is… #nbpoli
- Well, to start with — they could reverse the 62 billion to fossil fuels and the 5 billion to renewable climate…
- Well.
- What had been a plan to tax 30 per cent of emissions is being rolled back to just 20 per cent for most large…
- What happens when the demand for Alberta oil goes away?
- What we know for sure is that we cannot count on either federal or provincial governments to put the health of…
- What’s the worst that could happen?
- When Athabasca Chipewyan #FirstNation elder Alice Rigney gazes at the Peace-Athabasca Delta, which has sustained her…
- When Justice Kenneth Affleck jailed a senior who was honestly motivated to improve the world, the judge was…
- When soot from fossil fuel combustion and wildfires drifts onto the Arctic ice and snow, it helps feed a spiraling…
- When the C-NLOPB is an oilfield marketer, it can’t also be an effective environmental and safety regulator. #nlpoli
- When the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) released its 2018 oil outlook, which predicts major…
- When the MOA was signed, the estimated cost was $24.6 million over 17 years. The two sides agreed to split the cost.
- When: Saturday January 12, 2019, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
- While the big oil & gas companies are happy to get a little better price for their product, they say the curtailment…
- Wildfires have caused nearly a quarter of all permafrost thaw—2,000 square kilometres—in Western Canada’s boreal…
- Winchester and several other researchers including Michael Skinner, professor of biology at Washington State…
- With a new fossil lobby group, Suits and Boots, urging Conservative senators to slow down passage of the Trudeau…
- With carbon pricing in effect, it could become a much more attractive alternative to coal or natural gas, and one…
- With eastern Canada and the eastern and midwestern United States in the midst of a brutal cold snap, meteorologists…
- With the click of a button, oil and gas companies can receive certificates for site clean up — almost always without…
- With this partnership, Budweiser Canada receives ECOLOGO Certified Renewable Energy Certificates, equivalent to the…
- Words of caution about a global slowdown in labour productivity were essentially ignored by Nalcor Energy, says a…
- Work began Tuesday to remove oil from the sunken paper carrier Manolis L in Notre Dame Bay, and the undertaking will…
- World carbon dioxide emissions are estimated to have risen 2.7 per cent from 2017 to 2018, according to three…
- Wow!
- Wow!
- Wow!
- Xcel has been a leader on clean energy for a while.
- Yes, definitely a head scratcher…. does it sound like it’s safe to you?
- You have to wonder how oil executives sleep at night.
- You know, with Teck’s new tarsand project starting up that will produce 260,000 bbls/d when finished, two LNG…
- You might have heard that Canada’s forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2 — more than we…
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- Northern Pulp signals legal action against N.S. government over mill closure | CBC News
- Northern pulp appeals ministerial cleanup order, pauses environmental assessment – HalifaxToday.ca
- N.S. government extends Northern Pulp’s use of Boat Harbour wastewater treatment plant until April – Halifax | Globalnews.ca
- Nova Scotia pulp mill issues layoff notices as facility winds down operations | CTV News Atlantic
- Nova Scotia’s forestry transition team to spend $7M on silviculture | CBC News
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- The Derailment of Climate Talks by Polluters
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- Top Northern Pulp official speaks as premier refuses to grant extension | CBC News
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- Northumberland Strait Is Being Poisoned
- What happens when the demand for Alberta oil goes away?
- $19.5 million is a major taxpayer gift so the value MANS is offering government must be astronomical.
- The documents also reveal communications between Monsanto and a Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish…
- Nearly a year after the Liberal government announced it would carve out Nalcor Energy’s oil and gas division, the…
- Ray Plourde, the wilderness co-ordinator for the Halifax-based Ecology Action Centre, is dead set against government…
- An environmental crisis is unfolding in the Solomon Islands, where a ship is leaking oil near a UNESCO World…
- The project, spearheaded by a junior Australian firm, seeks to build a lithium mine less than 100 meters from the…
- Second earthquake in six days.
- It’s full of decades of contaminants — including cadmium, dioxins, furans and mercury — and continues to take in…
- Nothing was spilled. Still, there have been quite a few derailments the last month or so…
- “Alton Gas has chosen to drop the legal gavel on this grassroots group of Indigenous Water Protectors even while it…
- Please sign and share #StopAltonGas #nspoli
- It’s doubtful that we can expect any help from the federal government.
- New Brunswick-based Community Forest International is trying to adapt forests worldwide to the effects of climate…
- A retired oil field worker in Alberta has “floated” a novel solution to Alberta’s oil transportation woes: pipe the…
- “[That] is not an adequate public release of vital information,” he said, noting that the map isn’t anywhere online…
- In 2015 an omnibus federal budget bill passed through Parliament, it ushered in a new era in Canadian history.
- Although federal environmental laws should be applicable, Trudeau won’t enforce them.
- Natural Resources Canada said a 4.6-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of central Alberta just before 6 a.m.
- Well.
- This sleazy saga raises the question: If a government vows to respect judicial independence then throws it under the…
- EDMONTON — Mentioning climate change can kill a conversation.
- After measuring Canada’s clean-energy resources, the Stanford team says Canada can reach this goal through the…
- Objective:
- Many Albertans would prefer to believe that once the Trans Mountain pipeline is rammed through, the good times will…
- The project, which was initially expected to be in service before the end of 2019, now won’t be ready until the…
- More than 50 people are missing after a leaking oil pipeline exploded and caused a stampede in southern Nigeria, a…
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – As we reported earlier, the Nova Scotia Utilities and Review Board (NS-UARB) is deciding…
- The Lheidli T’enneh First Nation is taking Enbridge to court over a natural gas pipeline explosion near Prince…
- The federal government is stepping in to regulate a company’s controversial plan to use water from one of Nova…
- To the untrained eye, the rows of rocks piled near the tideline on British Columbia’s Quadra Island could easily be…
- Two wildlife researchers are calling the government of the Northwest Territories’ incentive for wolf hunters a…
- According to the International Federation of Robotics, sales of professional service robots — loosely defined as a…
- FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Crown-owned power utility is partnering with a Florida-based company to develop power…
- Well now… if that isn’t an incentive to develop more renewable energy sources, I don’t know what is… #nbpoli
- Its name sounds dangerous — the samurai wasp — but the tiny invasive parasite’s appearance in Canada for the first…
- Crabs that have a normal diet of a type of plankton have been seen munching on methane-filled bacteria off British…
- A startling new study in the journal Nature Geoscience concludes that another century of burning fossil fuels at…
- An article from Feb 6th, 2019, shows the Alberta government handing out money to companies that don’t need it.
- I guess subsidies are only for the fossil fuel indistry then?
- Note: Canada didn’t make the list…
- The CBC has reported that the tailings dam has been likened by the Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB) to…
- Words of caution about a global slowdown in labour productivity were essentially ignored by Nalcor Energy, says a…
- Ecojustice, acting on behalf of clients including the Suzuki Foundation, Nature Québec and the Sierra Club, filed a…
- If it cost $36 billion in 2015, what do you think it will cost four years later?
- Climate change was responsible for the majority of under-reported humanitarian disasters last year, according to…
- Slett said her community has already seen what can happen after even a relatively small spill.
- Thanks Briar Haven
- At the same press conference, Eugene Kung, a lawyer West Coast Environmental Law, said given the limited scope of…
- The group has been working with law students at the University of New Brunswick to research different compensation…
- After four days focused on the cost and schedule problems facing Muskrat Falls, testimony turned to the environment…
- Despite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s argument that the pipeline is in the best interests of Canada, Berman vows…
- Nova Scotia’s biggest contaminated site will get a federal environmental assessment before the cleanup begins.
- The case will be heard March 12 in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Alton spokesperson Lori MacLean said Friday.
- The energy regulator says an increase in tanker traffic resulting from the pipeline would hurt southern resident…
- Mabee said ending low subsidies, particularly wind power would be detrimental.
- Edmonton, AB — In a decision released on Tuesday, the National Energy Board (NEB) rejected a motion supported by…
- A northwestern New Brunswick city council has declared a climate emergency, a move the mayor says is a call to…
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said the Trans Mountain expansion is in the “best interest of all Canadians” and…
- The transition from oil and gas to renewable power is already well underway and likely to reach a tipping point in…
- The report finds that over the last three fiscal years, the Alberta government has subsidized the fossil fuel…
- OTTAWA — Canada will not sign on to an amendment to an international treaty that could bar three dozen countries…
- Did you know that ‘PowerShift: Young and Rising’ rallied for four days in Ottawa before the ‘United We Roll’ (former…
- Premier Rachel Notley announces Wednesday the province is investing $80 million in future royalty credits in a…
- The Alberta government has once again intervened in the energy sector, signing contracts to spend $3.7 billion to…
- The largest oil spill in the province’s history has researchers calling for stronger oversight while government…
- The group of companies behind the mine, the Sisson Partnership, is in the process of applying for permission to dump…
- HALIFAX — A proposed liquefied natural gas project says it has signed agreements with the Assembly of Nova Scotia…
- RIMINI, Mont.
- TransCanada Corp.
- Could be the start…
- The 10 million-ton-per-year Goldboro LNG facility hopes to benefit from its geographical location in Nova Scotia,…
- Alberta will double its solar capacity and save C$3.9 million per year after commissioning 94 megawatts of new…
- “Almost all geoengineering proposals serve to entrench and benefit fossil fuel interests rather than solve the…
- A large crowd packed the Northumberland Fisheries Museum in Pictou on Saturday, Feb.
- The proposed legislation would make some marginal adjustments to that regime.
- In 30 different assessments filed between 2004 and 2017, Ford found each study considered different factors in…
- A deadly disease with no known cure is killing deer in dozens of states and multiple provinces.
- There’s a growing uproar over the Trudeau government’s plans to allow a herring roe fishery in the Strait of Georgia…
- Canada’s energy regulator will tell the federal government on Friday whether it still thinks the Trans Mountain…
- About 37 crude oil cars have derailed and oil is leaking near St. Lazare, Man. #mbpoli
- Insects populations worldwide are crashing and a new study has confirmed that the major culprits are loss of habitat…
- Looks like the “wild west” is “wide open” after-all…
- Three new solar farms will be built in southeastern Alberta to meet a power supply contract for provincial…
- Enbridge Inc.
- In an interview with two of her co-stars, the Halifax-born Oscar nominee said she feels a responsibility to amplify…
- You have to wonder how oil executives sleep at night.
- The EU is on track to meet its 2020 renewable target, with 11 member states already above their national targets,”…
- The Guardian says the veteran U.S.
- While the big oil & gas companies are happy to get a little better price for their product, they say the curtailment…
- When soot from fossil fuel combustion and wildfires drifts onto the Arctic ice and snow, it helps feed a spiraling…
- The federal government stated in December 2015 that the community would get a new treatment plant by May 2018.
- Nova Scotia’s labour minister says the threat of closure is his best tool to penalize a coal mine that broke mining…
- HALIFAX – The province’s Minister of Environment has a conflict of interest in relation to Northern Pulp’s proposed…
- A retired lawyer from Vancouver is risking a 28-day prison sentence to test the necessity defence as a legal…
- “Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few…
- Los Angeles is walking away from a plan to spend billions of dollars rebuilding three natural gas power plants along…
- Many eyes will be on the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal this week as the court hears the provincial government’s…
- The future of Northern Pulp and the way it treats 75 million litres of waste water each day is the subject of…
- You might have heard that Canada’s forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2 — more than we…
- Days of “unprecedented” rainfall earlier this month led to widespread flooding across the state, causing power…
- Since 2013, 245 of these accounts retweeted messages from Canadian activists, politicians and media reports about…
- It seems the Liberal government is becoming very comfortable at breaking their own environmental laws when it comes…
- The press release announcing CAPP’s Alberta Energy Platform claimed that it is intended to be non-partisan, yet it…
- Canadian taxpayers will be on the hook for another $2-billion fossil fuel subsidy if the National Energy Board…
- The vice-chair of a Senate committee studying a bill to overhaul the environmental assessment process for the…
- On Thursday, Sen.
- Hundreds of thousands of cattle weakened from a severe drought are feared to have died in record-breaking floods in…
- Saltier lakes can affect the entire water ecosystem, from the fish to the invertebrates they eat to tiny plankton.
- This effluent will kill lobster larvae; it’s inevitable and would directly breach section 36 of the Federal…
- Sounds nice!
- A conservationist is accusing the federal government of trying to muzzle critics over a potentially-destructive…
- The Trump administration’s decision to rescind new energy efficiency standards for light bulbs will cost consumers…
- “This is really about providing justice for communities and just transitions for communities,” Ocasio-Cortez told…
- Both TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline and Enbridge’s Platte pipeline run parallel to each other through the area.
- Nova Scotians now have access to the details of Northern Pulp’s controversial plan to build a new effluent treatment…
- A portion of TransCanada Corp’s Keystone oil pipeline and Enbridge’s Platte pipeline remained shut on Thursday for…
- According to the department, the project includes a new effluent treatment facility and a new 15.5-kilometre-long…
- MP Charlie Angus says he is “shaken up” after visiting a remote First Nation in northern Ontario, where seemingly…
- A company in Edmonton is working on technology to turn windows into transparent solar panels, with a boost from…
- A US$653-billion global price tag made 2017-2018 the most expensive two-year period ever for extreme weather,…
- Mexican officials say the death toll from a Jan.
- A new analysis from Carbon Brief, however, suggests that this concern may be overblown.
- “The ethical questions surrounding David Bernhardt and his commitment to pandering to oil, coal, and gas executives…
- At least a third of the ice in the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush will thaw in this century as temperatures rise,…
- Oil is being put on trains and moved across Canada in increasing numbers.
- School strikes across Canada are beginning to gather momentum and media attention, with student leaders from…
- Carbon pollution from Canada’s fossil industry and some questionable assumptions about carbon credits are driving…
- Unlike most other areas in north eastern NA, the landscapes of SW Nova Scotia have not recovered or have been very…
- Everyone knows plants need CO2 to grow.
- The Port of Vancouver has cancelled a project permit for a controversial coal export terminal at the Fraser Surrey…
- With this partnership, Budweiser Canada receives ECOLOGO Certified Renewable Energy Certificates, equivalent to the…
- Depending on who you ask, the work taking place along the forest service road past Unist’ot’en is either scheduled…
- Residents within a 200- to 300-hundred kilometre radius of Canada’s largest city will be able to purchase hundreds…
- The Liberal government has withdrawn its appeal of a stunning 2018 court ruling that quashed a section of the Income…
- It was — the diplomat had heard about Joe-Strack at an Arctic conference.
- Judgment may keep bankrupt companies from walking, but some say regulatory reform is what’s really needed.
- The Trump administration is appealing a court ruling that blocked the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
- The electrical grid has some bottlenecks, he said.
- The case has often been regarded as a crucial test of the ‘polluter pays’ principle.
- Enbridge, a Canada-based energy company that claims to own the world’s longest fossil fuel transportation network,…
- If the project is never built, the value of the pipeline with no revenue generating capacity is between 1.8 billion…
- As MPs descend on Ottawa for the last parliamentary session before this October’s election, it’s clear that battle…
- Council of Canadians supporters and chapter activists have been taking part in solidarity actions from coast to…
- HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Northern Pulp mill says it needs a one-year extension to the province’s legislated deadline…
- The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that energy companies cannot abandon their responsibility to clean up old oil…
- OTTAWA — American lawyers who successfully sued the makers of the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup on behalf of a…
- Evanthia and Rose have recently learned that a global energy company, Repsol, plans to extract 1.8 billion litres of…
- BANGKOK — A fleet of drones, trucks and small planes sprayed water to try to reduce air pollution around Bangkok on…
- The facility, located at the site of the former barite mine near Walton, will contain explosives to be used in oil…
- A Canadian precedent could be set this week as the Supreme Court decides who pays to clean up the environmental mess…
- The clearest picture yet of coal ash contamination in the United States is emerging, with utilities reporting…
- With eastern Canada and the eastern and midwestern United States in the midst of a brutal cold snap, meteorologists…
- TransCanada Corporation is trying to sell off a majority share of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, the controversial,…
- But he said there is no guarantee that the study will lead to any changes to the reserve’s current water and sewer…
- Construction crews working on the controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline are bulldozing traplines in Wetsu’we’ten…
- The Met office is predicting a 2.75 part per million CO2 increase for 2019, bringing total atmospheric…
- HOW WILL THEY DO IT?
- VANCOUVER — Work on a Trans Mountain pipeline crossing in a British Columbia stream has destroyed salmon habitat,…
- Temperature records have tumbled across South Australia, with the city of Adelaide experiencing its hottest day on…
- Here’s how it works.
- This is because the tropical Pacific ocean is expected to be warmer this year, which leads to hotter and drier…
- “I want to protect the environment and the Avalon Wilderness area and Salmonier Nature Park for my kids and their…
- Earlier this week, the Unist’ot’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation alleged on social media that pipeline contractors…
- Antigonish filmmaker Peter Murphy and a group of four ACALA volunteers re-released what might be described as “the…
- Ironically, within days from this announcement, three interesting revelations came to light in other parts of the…
- A hole drilled for a mineral exploration company seven years ago is leaking contaminated water into the environment,…
- JPMorgan Chase, the Bank of Montreal, Deutsche Bank, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce are the four most…
- The country’s leading fossil lobby wants provincial policies that will double the Alberta fossil industry’s growth…
- Information gathered through environmental effects monitoring (EEM) at all Canadian mills points to the disturbing…
- This is the #CarbonTax in Alberta working EXACTLY as designed. #abpoli #ableg
- VANCOUVER – Wilderness Committee is aghast after the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) brazenly…
- On Monday representatives of environmental group Stand.earth announced they had filed a motion with the NEB to…
- “I don’t like the term ‘shaming.’ That’s not the intention,” she said of her Instagram posts, which show the litter…
- “I’m glad there were no explosions because that tank farm that is just 250 metres from there is like a bomb waiting…
- He says Lahey was right to call for a focus on the forest first.
- Former Bisha mine workers are suing Nevsun in B.C.
- An explosion of an Enbridge Inc natural gas pipeline in Ohio on Monday created a fireball of flame and damaged…
- Victoria has become the first city in British Columbia to support a class action lawsuit calling on fossil companies…
- It is against federal regulations in the federal Fisheries Act to deposit brine into a body of water where fish…
- Researchers estimate the population of birds may have been evolving separately on Haida Gwaii for 20,000 years —…
- Two organizations, Anqotum Resource Management and Homarus Inc., have partnered in the project to help restore…
- The comments come amid the government’s effort to meet a Federal Court of Appeal directive last August stemming from…
- This comes as a B.C.
- With carbon pricing in effect, it could become a much more attractive alternative to coal or natural gas, and one…
- Hydro dams produce about eight per cent of the province’s electricity.
- In 2009, G20 countries meeting in Pittsburgh affirmed that “inefficient fossil fuel subsidies encourage wasteful…
- An official with the state-owned oil company that operates the pipeline that exploded last week in central Mexico,…
- Thanks Briar Haven
- Mawhinney said the initial concern was because the fire was so close to the tank farm, adding that the winds were…
- The fishing communities of Saugeen First Nation and Chippewas of Nawash are finding higher winds and warmer…
- The elephant in the room and the inconvenient truth for politicians who traffic in this tin-foil absurdity is that…
- The federal government is likely to own the Trans Mountain pipeline until the political risks facing the project are…
- During the 2016 presidential campaign, countless climate experts voiced their concern about Trump, who had…
- Ottawa, January 14, 2018 – Today, Health Canada is releasing online, responses to eight objections to…
- If the technology is successful, the oil industry would be able to sell bitumen close to world oil prices without…
- The National Energy Board has rejected a request by Burnaby, B.C., that it rescind orders allowing the company…
- Nalcor is asking that “commercially sensitive” information be redacted in the versions of the report released to…
- As police enforce a court injunction against two Indigenous camps standing in the way of a proposed B.C.
- A 2009 provincial land use order said that timber company Western Forest Products would be allowed to cut 27,000…
- The current outbreak, which began in October 2017 off southwest Florida, has been tied to a record 589 sea turtle…
- PARIS (Reuters) – A French court canceled the license for one of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkillers on Tuesday…
- After almost nine years of promises, successive Liberal and Conservative governments have failed to eliminate fossil…
- About 100 people marched in Fredericton on Tuesday in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en anti-pipeline protests in B.C.
- The Boat Harbour treatment facility is owned by the provincial government, which is on the hook for the cleanup once…
- Ten years ago, Ontario was developing new wind power projects at a cost of 28 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), the…
- Antarctica is melting more than six times as fast than it did in the 1980s, a new study shows.
- Mike LeBourdais, chief of the Whispering Pines First Nation between Kamloops and Barriere, has been travelling the…
- Toronto topped the list, followed by Winnipeg, St. John’s and Vancouver.
- Fishing operators in Newfoundland and Labrador are urging a federal-provincial regulator to stop seismic testing by…
- The federal government, the Yukon and Northwest Territories governments, and several First Nations are pushing back…
- The town of Port Augusta in South Australia hit 48.9 degrees Celsius (approximately 120 degrees Fahrenheit) on…
- A decade after the provincial government became the owner of a shuttered mill, whatever toxic mess lies beneath has…
- The growth of solar energy and electric vehicles is reducing the need for oil as a source of energy.
- Federal risk assessment showed TC Energy they could break the law, trample indigenous rights (Wet’suwet’en) — and…
- Tracy Anne Cloud, director of trilateral negotiations with Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn said the area is the only land…
- The National Energy Board would require the creation of a marine mammal protection program for the Trans Mountain…
- Dzawada’enuxw First Nation filed a claim in Vancouver federal court Thursday alleging that 10 fish farms located in…
- Monsanto knowingly manipulated scientific papers without disclosing their involvement.
- When: Saturday January 12, 2019, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
- The lawsuit argues that the fish farm licences have exposed wild salmon and eulachon (a smelt-like species that…
- “Even as coal prices rose and exports boomed last year, coal plant retirements flirted with all-time highs,” E&E…
- Climate change was a factor in the wildfires that swept through 12 million hectares of southern British Columbia in…
- Manitoba no longer has coal-burning power operations, as Manitoba Hydro says it has quit using its final…
- Its often said and it’s often true that people confuse deforestation and clearcutting, which is true.
- Later, a man who identified himself as Arnie Jack from the Shuswap Nation said Canada does not have a deed to its…
- Wow!
- Earthquakes Canada confirmed the preliminary 3.7 magnitude quake hit at 9:49 local time, 17 kilometres north of the…
- As with most lands in British Columbia, aboriginal title exists on the Wet’suwet’en lands in question.
- Aren’t the Wet’suwet’en among the First Nations who have approved the pipeline?
- Canadian seafood giant Clearwater was convicted of “gross violation” of fisheries regulations last fall after senior…
- An argument against spraying our forests — diversity in trees and plants increases carbon storage.
- To be fair, few politicians are emerging as climate heroes, regardless of where they sit on the political spectrum.
- He has said he is “not at all ashamed” of his lobbying for Murray Energy Corp, the nation’s leading underground coal…
- Sounds to me like Trudeau would like to force this upon them…
- The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) is inviting public feedback to determine whether or not a…
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – The planned release of treated effluents into the Northumberland Strait by Northern Pulp is a…
- “We saw the royalty revenue from Donkin increase by a little over 50 per cent from the first quarter to Q3, which we…
- Lamma Island residents worried about a potential oil spill reaching their coastline.
- “Over 50% of Ontario’s carbon emissions originate in cities,” but the Ontario plan “could weaken cities’ potential…
- Hemp fiber has been used for thousands of years to make sailcloth, rope, twine, and clothing.
- Reacting to footage of the “invasion” by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), author and activist Naomi Klein…
- Climate change, which will ruin our planet, is not ideological.
- Consistent with the ecological forestry paradigm, the objective of forestry practices in Nova Scotia should be,…
- In its outlook, Suncor maintained its December production guidance for 2019 that forecast production growth of 10…
- In its latest assessment, the company identified four additional factors that might affect costs and schedule for…
- Carbon emissions rose sharply last year, increasing 3.4%, according to new estimates from the economic firm Rhodium…
- “It sounds like the RCMP is once again using every tactic that they can to bend the law as much as possible to…
- As a rural Nova Scotian and a woodlot owner operator that makes my living on the forestry industry, I thought I…
- “The provincial and federal governments must revoke the permits for this project until the standards of free, prior…
- The Story of the Corbett Lake Affair and the Erosion of Trust in the Public Process #nspoli
- Danny George and others again raising alarms on Social Media, this time not about harvesting Old Growth but about…
- “(They) indicated that specially trained tactical forces will be deployed to forcibly remove Wet’suwet’en people…
- The provincial Environment Ministry made public documents filed in November last year on Thursday, detailling the…
- The politics of climate change are shifting against the GOP.
- To be fair, all the G7 members are proving to be hypocrites, having collectively handed out more than $100 billion…
- Here are some of the wildest things Teck Resources’ lawyers told the panel during the hearings:
- Found in air conditioners and aerosols, hydrofluorocarbons—or HFCs—are thousands of times more powerful drivers of…
- What’s the worst that could happen?
- The positive directions in British Columbia’s new climate plan will be offset by the greenhouse gas emissions from…
- From rigged nomination battles and grassroots anger directed at #Kenney’s inner circle to allegations of fraud,…
- “We are seeing growth declines in Eastern Canada, and this wasn’t predicted to happen this soon.
- More than 30 chemical elements were detected in the airborne particles at Trudeau airport.
- Canada talks the talk but lacks any real action. None of these six positive stories are about Canada…
- OCTOBER 24, 2013
- In 2004, Hurricane Ivan triggered an undersea mudslide that sank an oil platform owned by Taylor Energy.
- The group sees the risks of offshore drilling for oil and gas as outweighing any possible benefits.
- From kids marching for their lives and striking for the climate, to anti-coal activists in Kenya, Bangladesh and…
- EDMONTON — The year 2019 will decide whether Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP gets to finish the job of getting more oil…
- Enbridge had paid the National Energy Board $14.7 million in regulatory fees to monitor the pipeline’s construction…
- Engineers at the University of Calgary say they’ve come up with a fresh and effective new technique in the global…
- Questions around the potential closure of the Northern Pulp mill in Abercrombie, N.S., will grab a share of the…
- The Honour the Treaties tour made international headlines, thanks in part to Young’s occasionally over-the-top…
- Natural gas prices in Western Canada are so low that a partner in the country’s first LNG export project is shutting…
- In Beauceville Qubec the municipality recommends turning off ventilation systems to prevent potentially toxic fumes…
- Andrew Scheer would not commit that his yet-to-be-unveiled climate plan will meet Paris targets – despite claiming…
- As the U.S.
- Pepin says over the past 3-4 years, scientists have seen a persistent drop in phytoplankton and zooplankton in…
- Right: Fraser Institute, C.D.
- Wow!
- FORBES 2013
- Tavish Campbell says little has changed since he collected samples from bloody waste discharged into the ocean last…
- Most of the 38 industrial activities covered by the draft regulations face a standard test of 80 per cent of the…
- Carbon pricing is “sort of a red herring,” says Jessica Green, associate professor of political science at the…
- Mining company Westmoreland Coal, which purchased five coal mines in Alberta, is suing Canada for $470 million under…
- A three minute piece on the 6 PM Evening News about fishermen protesting a pipeline, does not relate the 50+ year…
- “What we’re seeing this year is very, very senseless murders just happening all over the place in the city,” Idsinga…
- From coast-to-coast-to-coast, virtually nowhere was spared extreme weather in 2018. #cdnpoli
- Let it be noted for the record: Alberta may be the first province in history to lament the arrival of buckets of…
- “The oil industry loves to say ‘sure, electric cars, but it’s not going to happen tomorrow, we’re not going to stop…
- The provincial government is looking to extend the current moratorium on new or increasing permits to take…
- A Nova Scotia judge has granted a temporary injunction to stop fishermen from blocking survey boats hired to examine…
- The future of development in Alberta’s oilsands lies in underground, steam-assisted operations that represent some…
- Today’s announcement of over $1.6 billion in new grants, loans and financial supports for oil and gas companies caps…
- Five new green energy collaborations between private companies and Alberta First Nations are expected to create…
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is overhauling how Canada assesses big energy projects in a bid to ensure new…
- Included in the announcement is $1 billion in commercial loans available through Export Development Canada and $500…
- NDP environment critic Lenore Zann said she submitted questions to provincial Environment Minister Margaret Miller…
- “Both DNR-NSF continue to push clear cutting of both Crown lands and Private lands in spite of the Lahey Report…
- The Healthy Forest Coalition, and our allies, will be gathering outside the courthouse for a peaceful but strong…
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has no intention of reviving the failed Energy East pipeline…
- A federal appeals court has thrown out a power company’s permit to build a natural gas pipeline across two national…
- Many shrimp-like invertebrates found here may not have any direct economic importance, but are important as food for…
- “We think that would be a mistake in just locking us into burning fossil fuels again for three or four more…
- Rankin and McNeil may be two of the last remaining people in the province who believe it’s possible for Northern…
- The demands are outlined in a petition signed by more than 60,000 people, dropped off at the local office of Halifax…
- Nova Scotia’s energy minister said Wednesday he was “well aware” the turbine can’t be removed during the winter.
- Other countries know that Canada is struggling to meet its own targets, that the Liberal government is facing legal…
- Considering the recent oil price crash in Western Canada and the fact a provincial election is expected in the…
- First, the good news.
- Comley said water temperature and weather conditions could explain some of the decline, with fishermen reporting…
- Harjeet Singh of ActionAid International said the main holdouts were the United States, Australia and Japan, while…
- Environmental Defence, along with Stand Earth, released a report at the conference to show that emissions from the…
- Tensions began last week, when newly minted Quebec Premier François Legault said at a First Ministers’ meeting in…
- Enbridge Inc.
- Up to 300,000 barrels of oil a day are expected to flow from Alberta’s oil sands to Montreal’s refineries.
- Martin, who left Nalcor in 2016 under a cloud of controversy over cost and schedule overruns, was stone-faced the…
- Small amounts of selenium are needed by humans, but larger amounts can cause problems ranging from stomach upsets to…
- At a basic level, the “SSi Energy Solution” system would capture heat waste created through the production of power…
- The report accuses the industry of successfully lobbying Canada to water down climate policies or exempt it from…
- Louis Bergeron says it is a “totally different project” with a lot of benefits for northern Ontario.
- Ellen Page said the provincial government must stop its “corporate welfare” for Northern Pulp, which Page said is…
- “Canada committed to restoring public confidence and modernizing the [National Energy Board] with a specific focus…
- “The plan aims to cut almost 19 million tonnes of GHG emissions annually from transportation, industry, and…
- “The plan aims to cut almost 19 million tonnes of GHG emissions annually from transportation, industry, and…
- Negotiators at COP24 took time out Sunday to rest after the first week of talks ended on a sour note the previous…
- The Gulf of Maine – which extends from Cape Cod in Massachusetts to Cape Sable at the southern tip of Nova Scotia,…
- Anyone want to guess where the wastewater will go if they start fracking in new Brunswick?
- Luckily this young lady’s story was picked up by the news and people volunteered to help.
- “Hydro electricity could allow other provinces to replace other forms of energy and reduce their GHG emissions,”…
- Thank you Marnie Abrahamson
- Premier François Legault said he doesn’t want to hear any more talk about oil pipelines crossing Quebec because the…
- “Industry knows that the future is low carbon. They want a clear plan to get there.”
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is willing to consider helping Alberta Premier Rachel Notley fund the purchase…
- “In Canada, we are engaged in an inane debate about carbon pricing in which the Liberals exaggerate the benefits of…
- With the click of a button, oil and gas companies can receive certificates for site clean up — almost always without…
- Australian songwriter & visual artist Mark Lang has released a 6 min video highlighting pollution and environmental…
- New developments would be exempt from drinking water source protection plans, and could be built regardless of their…
- India’s toxic air claimed 1.24 million lives in 2017, or 12.5 per cent of total deaths recorded that year, according…
- Astaldi filed a court injunction — which Premier Dwight Ball has said “prevented the flow of money” to pay 120…
- In recent years, the rising sea level has been swallowing up the beach.
- World carbon dioxide emissions are estimated to have risen 2.7 per cent from 2017 to 2018, according to three…
- HALIFAX — The Northern Pulp mill is taking legal action after fishermen blocked survey boats hired to examine a…
- Xcel has been a leader on clean energy for a while.
- Corridor Resources invited New Brunswick MLAs to tour shale gas fields in the Sussex area on Tuesday, but they were…
- “No one could understand what had happened to me,” Genser told As It Happens host Carol Off.
- Thanks Briar Haven
- Greenpeace, which occupied a branch of Barclays on Wednesday morning and erected signs branding it “The Dirty Bank”,…
- McNeil told reporters Tuesday his government is examining the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling and would “have more…
- You know, with Teck’s new tarsand project starting up that will produce 260,000 bbls/d when finished, two LNG…
- So we wait another year… and as we can, do the government’s due diligence for them, clearcut by clearcut. #nspoli
- We’ve scored the plan in ten key areas.
- Brian Hebert, the lawyer for the Pictou Landing First Nation, said in an interview that the court decision means the…
- KATOWICE, Poland — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the climate summit in Poland by issuing a dramatic…
- Isn’t that the Lebanese way that you solve your own problems without relying on your government?
- There are significant concerns about the use of Corexit on a spill of diluted bitumen (dilbit), a blend of bitumen…
- No mention of Biomass consumption in the province was included in the report.
- On Thursday, the UN World Meteorological Organization said global temperatures are headed for a rise of 3 to 5 C…
- TransCanada Corporation abandoned the $15.7-billion project more than a year ago, after the National Energy Board…
- The British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission is investigating a series of earthquakes that one expert says were very…
- It is our new Sydney Steel, a thing whose rationale for existing has simply run out, which is more trouble than it’s…
- As one miner — fearful of having to seek work out of town — put it, “[My kids] say ‘where are you going to go, dad?
- The Forest at Wagner Lake, Shelburne County approved to be clear-cut: It’s not like we didn’t try.
- The Ben Eoin trailer park sits atop a classic barachois, the word used in Atlantic Canada, Saint Pierre and…
- The Fourth National Climate Assessment, released Friday by the U.S.
- Higgs said he would meet with Corridor Resources CEO Steve Moran next week about how to let the company resume…
- Donald Trump has finally explained why he has so much trouble getting his facts right on the reality of the global…
- The federal government and B.C.
- In the days since the spill, this system has received a barrage of criticism for the fact that, not only does the…
- When the MOA was signed, the estimated cost was $24.6 million over 17 years. The two sides agreed to split the cost.
- A new report from one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals says Canada’s failure to cut greenhouse-gas…
- The Progressive Conservative government’s plan, unveiled by Environment Minister Rod Phillips on Thursday, will see…
- Chronic exposure to air pollution from greenhouse-gas-emitting activities is contributing to the deaths of an…
- “Everyone wants to see jobs in the Maritimes, but not at the cost of a potential environmental disaster,” Duffy said.
- Sunnier days are ahead for Saskatchewan homeowners who generate solar power.
- Currently, 99 per cent of Canadian oil exports go to the U.S.
- Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says her government will buy its own rail cars to transport more oil to market.
- The senators say Northern Pulp’s “dangerous project” could damage the fishery in the Maritime provinces and Quebec’s…
- Documents filed by the company to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency in relation to an application for…
- President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed a study produced by his own administration, involving 13 federal agencies…
- The culprit turned out to be E.
- A former pipeline executive who worked on the proposed Energy East project says Premier Blaine Higgs’s plan to…
- The provincial environment commissioner has named eight towns in the northeast where sewage is polluting local…
- Miller and others welcomed the news the provincial government is granting legal protection to land known as the…
- The United States Coast Guard is demanding an end to a 14-year oil spill that has dumped as much as 3.5 million…
- In his column, Mason brings home the impact for the Alberta tar sands/oil sands industry, and for the province that…
- After 17 days, 85 dead, another 249 still missing, 14,000 homes destroyed, and flames that took out an area the size…
- A Massachusetts wildlife sanctuary director tells the Cape Cod Times that at least 219 turtles washed ashore…
- Al Gore says it’s no coincidence that the Trump administration released a damning report on climate change on a day…
- “While we are a small nation, we have a huge impact on the most vulnerable citizens in the world.
- In October, Trudeau told CBC Radio’s Metro Morning that it’s difficult to break the Saudi LAV deal because of the…
- Well, to start with — they could reverse the 62 billion to fossil fuels and the 5 billion to renewable climate…
- The federal report says the last few years have smashed records for damaging weather in the U.S., costing nearly…
- Not a big fan of mining, but this reduces a lot of jobs…
- The renewed [30 year old] plant and district energy system, a $26.5-million project that began operation this…
- New research shows Export Development Canada (EDC) provides 12 times as much financial backing to oil and gas…
- The Nova Scotia government is eliminating a requirement that mining companies clean up or reclaim mine sites they…
- Scotiabank’s report fails to mention that the bank has invested $9.957 Billion over the last three years, providing…
- Disclosures and analysis of transaction-level data reveals that EDC provides, on average, over $10 billion in…
- Alberta’s government has a long-standing transparency problem when it comes to oil and gas liabilities.
- Poitras said Alberta First Nations support the legislation because it gives Indigenous communities a greater say…
- “If I’m going to be the voice of the people of Fredericton-York, I am not going to vote in favour of shale gas,…
- When the C-NLOPB is an oilfield marketer, it can’t also be an effective environmental and safety regulator. #nlpoli
- ST.
- The Public Utilities Commission unanimously rejected a motion by opponents to reconsider its previous decision to…
- In a showdown in Pictou Harbour Monday morning, a fleet of fishing boats forced a survey vessel back to port.
- The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board says in a statement on its website that operations…
- An oil leak from a flowline to a tanker off the coast of Newfoundland caused an estimated 250,000 litres of crude to…
- Their Frontier Mine would cost $20 billion, operate for 41 years, and extract 260,000 barrels of bitumen per day.
- China, Russia and Canada’s current climate policies would drive the world above a catastrophic 5C of warming by the…
- But on Main Street on Thursday, protesters said any fracking in New Brunswick is too close to home.
- It has been calculated by economist Blake Shaffer that the cleanest coal plants, despite being much much dirtier…
- The European Parliament decision Tuesday calls for energy savings of 32.5% by 2030, with renewable energy meeting…
- Governments in 19 of the world’s 20 biggest economies—including Canada—are still paying closer attention to fossil…
- California Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou granted an early trial Thursday to elderly couple Alva and Alberta…
- BP still has other unexplored claims, and yet another company has plans to start seismic testing next spring, Keddy…
- Her appeal came as the province’s environment minister, Iain Rankin, made crystal clear his government won’t change…
- The American benchmark price for oil is now well below $60 a barrel, having dropped $20 in the last six weeks.
- Tap water is still fine to consume, but residents and businesses in the area are being advised to limit their water…
- The Government of Canada has lifted mandatory speed restrictions in the Gulf of St.
- K’JIPUKTUK (Halifax) – News of BP Canada’s dry well offshore Nova Scotia is an opportunity for change, according to…
- Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen a new foreign minister who believes climate change is part of a…
- Toronto, Ont.
- People’s Alliance Leader Kris Austin says the new Higgs government will be making “a wrong move” if it allows shale…
- A US$1-billion green bond issued by Duke Energy Carolinas, a subsidiary of utility giant Duke Energy, will finance a…
- Both The Guardian and the New York Times pick up on the IEA’s conclusion that renewable energy is surging and fossil…
- As part of the new legislation, the government is updating a list of projects that will require a federal…
- New and amended regulations will support Nova Scotia’s cap-and-trade program, which will begin Jan. 1.
- The deadline matters because the mill’s provincial industrial approval expires Jan.
- There are now no exploratory drilling projects happening off the coast of Nova Scotia, says a spokesperson for the…
- Of the 26 stocks deemed critical, most are finfish in Atlantic Canada.
- A new report says there are just 411 North Atlantic right whales left of the rapidly declining species, in what…
- Less than a week after two of Canada’s top five tar sands/oil sands producers announced they were cutting back…
- Bill C-69 is aimed at restoring some of the environmental protections that were gutted by the previous Harper regime.
- With a new fossil lobby group, Suits and Boots, urging Conservative senators to slow down passage of the Trudeau…
- According to the Yellowhead Institute’s Research Director Shiri Pasternak, Bill C-69, the Act to enact the Impact…
- The overarching question we should be asking ourselves is how fast we can get to 100% renewable energy and not just…
- Doug Pitt may change his mind since Health Canada says in light of “troubling allegations,” its scientists are…
- The overall death toll from the outbreak of fires at both ends of the state stood at 25 on Sunday and appeared…
- An estimated 50,000 people marched in Montreal to show their support for climate action on Saturday, as part of a…
- Health Canada says in light of “troubling allegations,” its scientists are reviewing hundreds of studies used during…
- PORTLAND, Maine — Valuable species of shellfish have become harder to find on the East Coast because of degraded…
- Turns out, coconut oil fatty acids have strong repellency and long-lasting effectiveness against bloodsuckers and…
- Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the federal government plans to disburse money from a climate fund…
- At the moment, Canada is producing 722 megatons of carbon dioxide per year – of which 26 per cent (190 megatons)…
- Filled with exemptions for large producers and consumers alike, the carbon pricing framework was designed to spur…
- Built with construction techniques used in Europe for years, it’s designed to be up to 90 per cent more energy…
- Doug Ford’s principal secretary (who sets the overall political and policy strategy as head of the Premier’s Office)…
- A B.C.-based researcher has spent the better part of the last decade investigating the connection between U.S.
- “There was probably 40 boats showed up in Pictou Harbour to send a message. We’re not backing down and that’s that.”
- The documents don’t say where the contaminants come from and Public Works wasn’t able to speak to CBC News about the…
- There are no easy answers for how to limit global warming to 1.5C, but the IPCC’s research does clarify the options.
- GREAT FALLS, Mont.
- On Oct.
- Residents of a rural community in Nova Scotia’s #Shelburne County are upset that a 105-hectare clearcut has been…
- Northrup was quick to add that fracking will only be welcome in communities where there is public support.
- The scope of power outages has been reduced to about 5,000 households across New Brunswick — a significant drop…
- The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK for the first time, in a milestone…
- “Indigenous and non-Indigenous opponents of the project continue to highlight the increasing threats to the planet…
- Pictou Mayor Jim Ryan said the town’s problems with the plan only grew when officials learned Plan B, which would…
- Earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United…
- After years of frustration, Canadians are now able to purchase clothing that is commercially treated to protect…
- In this video by WWF-Canada from September, two sperm whales are spotted swimming near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, much…
- China is now the world’s largest renewable energy investor.
- Critics worry that not only are orphan wells already sitting neglected in farmers’ fields across the province, but…
- The NEB forecasts crude oil production will grow to 6.9 million barrels per day in 2040, up 58 per cent from 4.4…
- The City of Longueuil has been given the green light to dump more than 150 million litres of raw sewage into the St.
- Despite stubborn opposition from the B.C.
- The Narwhal’s investigation into the muzzling of Parks Canada staff has created quite the stir in the month since it…
- The New Brunswick Environment Department has confirmed J.D.
- #Regina city council has voted unanimously in favour of being “100 per cent renewable” by 2050.
- The Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board has given the regulatory green light for Pieridae Energy to build a…
- After experiencing significant wind-farm downtime due to ice buildup on turbine blades, the operators of the…
- “Based on some of the longstanding expert rhetoric, one could easily be led to believe the WCS discount represents a…
- In a climate-policy retreat over the treatment of coal, federal Liberals are proposing to loosen emission standards…
- A 2012 consultant’s report repeatedly used as justification to sanction #MuskratFalls may not have been as…
- Shares in gas and power company AltaGas Ltd.
- The area has known of its water problem for decades now.
- The report presents a sobering picture of the impact human activity has on the world’s wildlife, forests, oceans,…
- The Materials Safety Data Sheet for arsenic trioxide classifies it as a confirmed carcinogen that may cause damage…
- From 1970 to 2014, 60 percent of all animals with a backbone — fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals –…
- A farm outside of Kamloops, B.C. is trying to make its operation 100 per cent waste-free. Its secret? Bugs.
- Poisonous air is having a devastating impact on billions of children around the world, damaging their intelligence…
- The Dalhousie University research associate said Cooke has had problems at its current site in Liverpool Bay,…
- Death by a thousand cuts refers to the slow slicing of humans as a method of torture and capital punishment that was…
- Tim Houston, new leader of the Progressive Conservative party and his caucus have repeatedly criticized the Liberals…
- The group, called Extinction Rebellion, is today backed by almost 100 senior academics from across the UK, including…
- The provincial government offered a suite of tax breaks and incentives for #LNG Canada that results in $5.35 billion…
- Climate change is here, experts say, and Canada can expect to suffer the consequences.
- The latest report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) erases any doubts about the inadequacy…
- Roughly a dozen companies that produce more than 50,000 tonnes of carbon per year — including big players like Koch…
- Jason Kenney, the leader of the United Conservative Party of Alberta, says if he were elected premier, he would fund…
- And yet, “as oil continues to spoil the Gulf,” the Post adds, “the Trump administration is proposing the largest…
- The new Methane Emissions Reduction Program will help oil and gas facilities identify, reduce, improve or eliminate…
- Here we summarize some of the littler-known features that have shifted in the face of climate change and pulled the…
- Amnesty International is deeply disappointed that the BC Supreme Court has decided to allow construction of the Site…
- The suit does not charge Exxon with playing a role in creating climate change, though the burning of fossil fuels is…
- Alongside colleagues across Western Canada I have been studying what we are calling a ‘regime of obstruction.’…
- Um, the problem isn’t energy efficient lights — the problem is using fossil fuels for heat.
- Four years after the disaster, the mine has not paid a cent in fines.
- “But we can also reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- He’s talking about GHG, not the mining industry, cement plants and the Northumberland Strait.
- Environment and Climate Change Canada raised a litany of concerns with Teck Resources’s proposed Frontier Oilsands…
- After a confrontation on the water, a fleet of fishing boats escorted a vessel believed to be conducting survey work…
- Newfoundland and Labrador’s approach to regulatory oversight of Muskrat Falls does not meet the standards of other…
- No mention of GHG created by LNG, Paris Accord or global warming. They must have forgot about this…
- This work on the pollution record left behind in the shells of mussels could be of use for tracking spills and…
- “The mill did not know the pipe was broken until a citizen out walking discovered it,” said fisherman Allan…
- In a decision without precedent in its 25 years of existence, British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office has…
- Local and national environmental groups are urging Environment and Climate Minister Catherine McKenna to review a…
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government have promised to stop subsidizing fossil fuels in Canada—that was a…
- The body representing the mining industry in Canada’s Nova Scotia has released a report that recommends $19.5…
- We have federal and provincial governments that talk a good climate game, but other than an electric vehicle…
- The most important part of this recent report is that reaching this emissions target is not impossible.
- After hearing the concerns, the Island MLAs agreed unanimously to reach out to politicians in Nova Scotia.
- Clayton Thomas-Muller, a Cree climate campaigner for 350.org, told APTN News Monday he welcomed the debate but was…
- The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than…
- The proposal to direct the money to a Miramichi River project far away from the St.
- Maybe he Liberals will have to buy #MuskratFalls
- Last week, #McKenna admitted to knowing what the United Nations was going to publish, but doubled down on the…
- The steep discounts being paid for Canadian heavy and light oil production compared with U.S.
- First, what it means for the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world.
- “I think something’s happening.
- SUNLAND, Calif. (KABC) —
- Canada’s environmental assessment agency is seeking public comments on a proposed gold mine on the Eastern Shore.
- Canadian politicians have expressed alarm that one of Canada’s biggest pension investment funds has increased…
- Nova Scotia Lands, the provincial environmental cleanup agency, issued a request for proposals last month on how to…
- The Great Lakes are 1.6 degrees Celsius warmer than they were in the 1940s, according to daily temperature readings…
- Recent events such as the prolonged rains of hurricanes Harvey and Florence and the persistent drought across the…
- Her preliminary results found “plastic contamination” in the flesh of every clam she collected.#nspoli
- The Mikisew Cree First Nation, a band in northern Alberta, is appealing a ruling from the Federal Court of Appeal…
- Thousands of law enforcement officers and search and rescue teams rolled out in its wake to find survivors amid the…
- Urgent changes at an unprecedented level never before seen in human history are needed to save the planet from…
- The company said in a release that its mill near the Reversing Falls tourist attraction in Saint John failed to meet…
- Hurricane Michael intensified into a Category 4 storm early Wednesday morning as it whirled towards the Florida…
- Now the Trump administration is poised to tip FERC’s balance by appointing a fossil fuel advocate as one of five…
- Irving Oil says a “major incident” has occurred at its Saint John refinery, after reports of an explosion and fire…
- From two years ago:
- “Every tenth of a degree of warming is a choice between life or death,” at a time when “climate change has set our…
- “This storm will be life-threatening and extremely dangerous,” Scott said in a briefing reported by CNN.
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Few Nova Scotians realize how massive a financial undertaking the Goldboro LNG export plant is.
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Following a well-attended rally in Halifax on Tuesday this week, the Campaign to Protect…
- Susan (who requested The Narwhal not use her full name for privacy reasons) submitted an advertising standards…
- “It is not the province’s decision whether or not a federal environmental assessment should take place.
- The reappearance of gold mines in the province may be a blessing to some — but for others it’s opening an…
- Blueberry’s traditional territory is at the centre of one of the biggest deposits of natural gas on the planet, the…
- “The amazing thing they’re saying is human activities are going to lead to this rise of carbon dioxide that is…
- Retired Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci will lead the new consultation process with Indigenous people on the…
- We’ve written before about the benefits of leaving the leaves on the grass – it just makes for a much healthier lawn.
- The study cites temperature shifts in the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current as a reason for the deoxygenation as…
- Coastal GasLink is a 670-kilometre (420 mile) pipeline designed to transport natural gas from the Montney…
- Canada is to join more than a dozen countries Wednesday in signing a deal that would block commercial fishing in the…
- Construction is going ahead on a massive, $40-billion liquefied natural gas project in northern B.C., hours after…
- This week, it was reported that the $40 billion #LNG terminal planned for Kitimat will get federal relief from…
- KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – Feeling the pressure of increased public scrutiny, the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum…
- The judge’s decision will determine how much the public gets to see and hear in the coming months when the court…
- Reviewers watching over the production of a crucial special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
- An animal welfare group, a church, a utility and the Nova Scotia Community College have been approved for a…
- The City of Edmonton wants all of its operations to be powered by renewable energy sources by 2030, and is looking…
- The Calgary-based developer of the Keystone XL oil pipeline plans to start construction next year, after a U.S.
- Public hearings for Teck Resources’ colossal Frontier mine project begin this week — opening an intense debate about…
- The collaboration includes Alhol Forestry Coop Limited of Amherst, Conform Limited of Middle Musquodoboit, North…
- As wells run dry in southwest Nova Scotia, an official with the Municipality of the District of Argyle says about 40…
- In those early days, once the gold was extracted, the leftover material, called tailings, was simply dumped into…
- What we know for sure is that we cannot count on either federal or provincial governments to put the health of…
- Bernier sat down in studio this week with As It Happens host Carol Off to discuss his plan to create the People’s…
- The ruling says that, between 1930 and 1995, Teck discharged about 400 tons of slag daily — an estimated 9.97…
- A tornado damaged cars in Gatineau, Que., and houses in a community west of Ottawa on Friday afternoon as much of…
- Proponents of Canada’s energy sector are raising the alarm about Ottawa’s move to overhaul the environmental…
- The Liberals will bow to a federal court ruling and proceed with a review of how increased tanker traffic from the…
- Last week, when a brand-new open-pit mine was officially opened in the oilsands of northern Alberta it was dubbed by…
- Toronto-based Anaconda Mining Inc.
- Earlier this year, the Sipekne’katik First Nation told the UARB it had not been consulted as required under federal…
- People were shocked to witness the birds, believed to be starlings, plunge to the ground near the BC Ferries…
- A history of colonial contempt
- HALIFAX — Canada’s environment minister said she’s no “quitter” despite calls Wednesday from David Suzuki for her to…
- Flooding, sewage overflow, blue-green algae and poor water quality have become all-too familiar issues in New…
- The Department of Energy and Mines has issued a marine renewable energy permit to Black Rock Tidal Power allowing it…
- I’ve heard from businesses that natural gas expansion is important to grow and compete.
- The Trump administration on Tuesday rolled back an Obama-era rule that forced energy companies to capture methane —…
- About 20 land protectors will be in court this week for hearings related to the occupation, blockade and other…
- Last month the province received a review on forestry by University of King’s College president Bill Lahey that…
- An official close to the plan said one option being closely considered is hiring a former senior judge, possibly a…
- The first thing to know: most home insurance policies don’t include flood insurance at all, explained Pete…
- Applicable to us and many companies, just not the big companies that pollute the most. They get a break:
- Many of the dire predictions came true.
- The protesters say they’re worried barging coal from a proposed marine terminal in Morien Bay will encroach on their…
- IF they extend Boat Harbour either because NP can’t come up with another plan and the govt caves or if they were to…
- The bike lane runs from the 500 Block of the Old Sambro Road (Hwy 306) right out to Sambro.
- The Gulf of St.
- Ken Summers shared these links about the meeting in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, on fracking
- Fossil fuel subsidies support an industry that pollutes our air and water and they undermine action on climate…
- The Muskrat Falls hydro megaproject, a massive dam and powerhouse harnessing the lower Churchill River near Happy…
- The public has until Sept.
- No one in America has ever experienced the wrath and fury of a category 6 hurricane, which now genuinely seems…
- There has been a moratorium on the practice over the last four years and whether to allow it again has been an issue…
- In total, the study determined that investments in energy efficiency would create 25,879 jobs in New Brunswick…
- Independent research consistently documents serious health problems associated with low-dose exposure to BPA, yet…
- Efforts to extract the bulk oil began in early August, and almost a month to the day later, the Coast Guard…
- Allan, former senior economist for the BC Central Credit Union and an intervenor in the hearings, said the errors…
- The United States may have reclaimed the title of the world’s biggest oil producer sooner than expected.
- CBC has obtained seven statements of claim registered with either the Federal Court of Canada or the Supreme Court…
- Briar Haven
- Kinder Morgan Inc.
- Born off the coast of Africa, Hurricane Florence followed an extraordinarily straight path to the U.S.
- In April, Julie Gelfand, Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, released a damning…
- Fishermen in eastern Cape Breton will appeal to two federal ministers to stop plans by the operators of the Donkin…
- MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.
- Researchers said they made the conclusions after exposing four groups of sockeye salmon eggs to four different…
- Energy Transfer Partners, which owns more than 83,000 miles of natural gas, crude oil, natural gas liquids and…
- South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster ordered about 1 million residents along his state’s coastline to leave…
- We all need to step back from the finger-pointing and political posturing in the wake of the Federal Court’s…
- In much of the region, ocean temperatures at the surface last month were two to three degrees higher than the…
- In August and September 2018, ten new permits were issued for spraying “pesticides”, VisionMax on more than 4,400…
- From Cheerios to Oreos to chocolate glazed Timbits, a controversial weed-killing chemical has been found in several…
- Their feces — “what we call fecal pellets, or salp poop,” said Madin — serve an important ecological function.
- The organization says they aim to remove about half of the garbage in the Great Pacific Patch within five years, and…
- Neville Crabbe, director of communications with the Atlantic Salmon Federation, confirmed Saint John River salmon…
- Since the 1970s, scientists and engineers have understood that injecting water directly into faults can jack the…
- The government’s purchase of the pipeline was met with mixed reviews when it was announced in April.
- A program to prevent the extinction of Atlantic salmon in the inner Bay of Fundy has helped maintain numbers in a…
- The Doug Ford government’s decision to cancel Ontario’s carbon cap-and-trade program could increase the province’s…
- Last week, #California state lawmakers passed State Senator (and candidate for US Senate) Kevin de León’s SB 100,…
- To qualify as a passive house, a building’s energy use cannot be more than 10 per cent of a typical home in its…
- Last week, council voted in favour of a motion to start the process of getting the watershed designated as a…
- A friend who lectures on leadership to senior managers in Canadian industry tells them they can’t inspire a level of…
- The Tyee has excerpted key sections below.
- In the Tsilhqot’in Nation decision in 2014, the SCC held that where First Nations hold Aboriginal title (a type of…
- The findings are scheduled for publication in the Aug.
- First the good news.
- …recently, during the first of several hundred lawsuits, it was revealed that Monsanto who produces glyphosate,…
- The federal plan requires provinces and territories to put a price on carbon emissions — through a cap and trade…
- If Trudeau had not purchased Trans Mountain, it’s pretty reasonable to assume this ruling would have been the…
- Notley said she spoke with the prime minister following the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision Thursday to overturn…
- The National Energy Board’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has been overturned, but the…
- According to Chilliwack fire ecologist Robert Gray, the scale of the wildfire emergencies we’ve lived through in…
- It’s difficult to pinpoint what impact the CFS could have since the policy is still being developed, however it…
- For many, the Mount Polley mine is the most immediate concern when it comes to clean up.
- Ottawa, Ont.
- Although Hawaii avoided a direct hit by Hurricane Lane, which weakened to a tropical storm over the weekend, areas…
- I don’t know about you, but sometimes I think about sustainability and get depressed.
- HALIFAX — Ottawa has posted a tender asking engineering firms to assess how climate change and extreme weather will…
- The National Energy Board says crude-by-rail exports from Canada set another record in June, rising to 204,558…
- Germany must withdraw a US$4-billion loan guarantee that would enable Calgary-based Pieridae Energy Ltd.
- The blog followed up a day later, reporting that several Ontario Parks employees had “reached out to confirm the…
- In late June the B.C.
- A major review of forestry in Nova Scotia offers a blueprint for developing an ‘ecological forestry plan’ in the…
- The Alkali Lake wildfire was measured at a “rough” 100,000 hectares after it merged with three other fires in the…
- Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil insisted Thursday there was no attempt to hide a $6-million payment last year to…
- Nova Scotia will maintain a moratorium on long-term leases for timber harvesting on Crown lands until it “digests” a…
- Miller’s letter to the company said concerns were raised by members of the public, Mi’kmaq groups and the province’s…
- Nova Scotia Energy Minister Derek Mombourquette said last week there are no plans to retrieve the turbine as of yet,…
- Collin O’Mara, the president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, went on Wednesday with a charter boat…
- Wildfires have caused nearly a quarter of all permafrost thaw—2,000 square kilometres—in Western Canada’s boreal…
- The Trump administration moved to dismantle another major piece of former president Barack Obama’s environmental…
- More than 400 dead or stranded seals have washed up on the Maine coast so far this year, more than in any of the…
- The full 2018 spray map is available at forestinfo.ca, a partnership between government and the forestry industry.
- Glyphosate performs two primary functions in fertile soil which is a living organism, rich in beneficial microbes;…
- Sen.
- There are 546 active fires burning across B.C.
- MEXICO CITY – Mexican environmental authorities are investigating the deaths of more than 100 endangered sea turtles…
- CHENGANNUR, India — Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a…
- There will come a day when people of all races, colors, and creeds will put aside their differences.
- Winchester and several other researchers including Michael Skinner, professor of biology at Washington State…
- At 5:30pm today on Aug.
- Yes, definitely a head scratcher…. does it sound like it’s safe to you?
- #Kimberley residents woke up to their entire city being placed on an evacuation alert, being told to prepare to have…
- Across the south-west, residents of small communities like Barnhart are confronting the reality that something as…
- The game-changing study from Duke University found that “from 2011 to 2016, the water use per well increased up to…
- Before 2011 global investment in clean energy (wind, solar, biomass, biofuels etc.) grew rapidly.
- What had been a plan to tax 30 per cent of emissions is being rolled back to just 20 per cent for most large…
- A federal judge in Montana on Wednesday ordered the U.S.
- One potential benefit of this system is that electric cars could be charged in seconds, as the material is a…
- An eerily thick haze blanketing Edmonton dissipated somewhat overnight but there is little relief in the forecast as…
- The National Energy Board says Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC can start construction on sections of its pipeline…
- Mittermeier said while she and SeaLegacy co-founder Paul Nicklen had taken photos and video of the bear on Somerset…
- The researchers measure the impact of climate projections in the region on “wet bulb temperatures,” or TW, a way of…
- A provincial state of emergency has been declared.
- The past four years have been the hottest on record, but new research shows the Earth was actually in a global…
- A major salvage operation get underway Wednesday to raise a tug that sank early Tuesday morning in the Fraser River.
- “Grassroots Grow Deep” was held on the beautiful Cold Lake First Nations’ treaty grounds and had 45 participants…
- More than one hundred municipal wastewater systems did not report how much raw sewage overflowed from their pipes in…
- OTTAWA — The federal government will begin phasing out the outdoor use of nicotine-based pesticides beginning in…
- An oil leak at the Tufts Cove power plant in Dartmouth, N.S., that spilled thousands of litres into Halifax harbour…
- The jury ruled that the plaintiff, Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, developed cancer from repeated exposure to Roundup,…
- Bayer shares plunged as much as 14 per cent on Monday, losing about $14 billion in value, after newly acquired…
- The US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, has blamed environmentalists for California’s ferocious wildfires and…
- “From the beginning, we understood that OpenHydro’s in-stream tidal energy technology was cutting edge and required…
- When the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) released its 2018 oil outlook, which predicts major…
- Ottawa is sending in the Armed Forces as B.C.
- Not as hard to imagine as one might think. Lethbridge, Alberta was at 46 degrees two days ago.
- Developing plantations of fast-growing trees like GE poplars for biofuel, biomass or other raw materials could lead…
- Some spray sites include land adjacent to the Raven Head Wilderness protected area near Joggins, N.S., on the shore…
- San Francisco jurors just ruled that that Roundup, the most popular weedkiller in the world, gave a former school…
- I’m Nermeen Shaikh.
- Work began Tuesday to remove oil from the sunken paper carrier Manolis L in Notre Dame Bay, and the undertaking will…
- Concerned citizens have 30 days from Wednesday to comment on the proposal.
- But it’s frustrating that the government keeps watering down and delaying climate change policies in order to…
- Gaspé is a place of majestic views and hardy people.
- Her science project at age 11 convinced three levels of government to pledge over $15 million to help clean up the…
- Somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 fish escaped from Cooke Aquaculture’s Hermitage Bay salmon farm on Newfoundland’s…
- Shell, which acquired BG Group in 2016 for $54 billion to boost its gas output, is nearing a decision on the…
- At least 98 people have died and another were 200 seriously injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the…
- On Monday, twin fires being treated as one incident north of San Francisco became the largest wildfire in state…
- When Justice Kenneth Affleck jailed a senior who was honestly motivated to improve the world, the judge was…
- The claim that carbon pricing will kill jobs may be powerful rhetoric, but it’s simply not true.
- The Department of Environment has issued six new approvals for pesticide spraying covering about 1,351 hectares.
- For the past 12 years, a Calgary-based company has been planning to pump water from the river to an underground site…
- Silvopasture is more effective than other grassland techniques, Drawdown explains, because it can sequester carbon…
- “The Canadian government has admitted the Southern Resident Killer Whales face extirpation (local extinction) due to…
- Sockeye salmon are on a mission up B.C.’s Fraser River right now, swimming “a marathon a day” to reach the gravel…
- Polyethylene, which is used in plastic bags and is the most used and discarded plastic in the world, emitted the…
- Southern California is not only sweltering under extreme heat, the city of Imperial actually witnessed rainfall when…
- Nova Scotia Power’s Tufts Cove plant leaked oil into Halifax harbour Thursday afternoon.
- The accusations comes as court records show that OpenHydro’s management knew it was heading to insolvency before the…
- “There are media outlets and there are journalists who are helping us connect the dots, but too often in our…
- The White House proposed dramatically weakening fuel economy standards on Thursday, reversing the only major federal…
- The Liberal government is curtailing its plan to price carbon pollution after hearing concerns from Canadian…
- Nova Scotia may become home to another new gold mine if a proposed Guysborough County project receives environmental…
- “Reducing the release of harmful substances found in coal mining effluent discharged into the Elk River and the…
- A new planned route for the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska would not have a major impact on the state’s…
- The truck traffic at Inter Pipeline’s construction site northeast of Edmonton seems to never stop, nor does the work…
- If we want to understand what’s driving this heat wave — and if we should expect more of the same — we need to look…
- Archeologists in Montreal have uncovered Iroquois artifacts that date mostly to around 1375.
- Nova Scotia Power will be burning #Donkin coal at the Lingan generating station for several years under a new…
- Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources says 12 of the 39 fires burning across the northeastern part of the province…
- Last year, a team of scientists spotted what they believed was a hybrid animal off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii.
- Thank you Ant Holzer — good article from last year shows how climate change is affecting the north…
- Here’s a look at the climate-change-fueled natural disasters taking place across the globe.
- But on Friday, Naval Energies announced it was out of the tidal turbine business and would instead concentrate its…
- “The legal tactics being employed by the BC government amount to a complete disregard for the rights of Indigenous…
- Newfoundland and Labrador and Equinor Canada have announced an agreement to develop the Bay du Nord oil project —…
- Blue-green algae typically grows rapidly in areas where there is an abundance of nutrients like phosphorus and…
- The lives of countless peaceful protesters are jeopardized each year in land and environmental disputes, and a new…
- More than 1,600 species are listed as endangered or threatened, while the sage-grouse and others are nearing that…
- Even when it sets out to fund clean technology, the Canadian government can’t seem to leave behind its default…
- The Okanagan Valley is on fire.
- The study finds that in 2013 more than 330,000 square kilometres in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan absorbed acid…
- July 25, 2018, Unceded Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver BC) – The Assembly of First Nations National Youth Council…
- Wow!
- The operator of the Donkin coal mine is facing sanctions under the temporary foreign worker program after an…
- Emergency crews were searching Wednesday through charred homes and cars for those still missing after the deadliest…
- All over the world, heatwaves are getting longer and more intense, the most well-documented and deadliest…
- The official Lao news agency KPL said the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in Attapeu province collapsed Monday…
- Newfoundland is one of the few places in the world where capelin use beaches to spawn, said Neville.
- Lunenburg, 23 July, 2018 – Giving BP, one of the world’s worst polluters, the go-ahead to resume drilling for oil…
- Documents released by the Department of the Interior — and then retracted a day later — reveal that agency officials…
- The Trump administration will seek to revoke California’s authority to regulate automobile greenhouse gas emissions…
- Johnson, a former school groundskeeper in northern California who is terminally ill, was testifying Monday in his…
- In Finland, where the average July temperature is about 18C (64.4F), the mercury has topped 30C in places.
- HALIFAX — Liberal backbencher Hugh MacKay should apologize for his insensitive Facebook post this weekend which…
- Fish are losing their sense of smell as rising carbon emissions turn the water they live in to acid.
- A B.C.
- Interesting to note that there wasn’t any mention of Pulp mills, coal mines, fracking wastewater that leaked into…
- Oil Change International, a clean energy advocacy group that conducted the study, estimated aid to Africa’s energy…
- Record-breaking temperatures have lasted for nearly a week, with the mercury reaching 38C or higher in parts of…
- Human Rights Watch found that people in many exposed communities fear reprisals from large landowners.
- As a result, the Earth Overshoot Day – which marks the point at which consumption exceeds the capacity of nature to…
- “In the early stages we were working to get an assessment of impacted areas,” said Duvall.
- The Canadian government is set to become the official owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after failing…
- A new phase is beginning in the effort to harness the Bay of Fundy’s world-famous tides to generate electricity.
- The West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations want construction frozen until a court case opposing the project…
- The company building the long-contested Keystone XL oil pipeline notified the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in a letter…
- Last year, the government announced it was giving the provinces and territories until the beginning of September to…
- 2018 marks the mid-point between 2005, our chosen base year for climate target-setting, and 2030, the target year…
- Until some five years ago, the biggest environmental impact on Prince Edward Island from the pulp mill near Pictou,…
- Based on sheer scale and audacity, the plan to build the KSM mine near the Alaska border is more science fiction…
- Over the last decade, Lake Erie has suffered from increasingly frequent and severe algae blooms, thanks in part to a…
- I am a little perturbed this week.
- ST.
- Our federal government has decided to pay $4.5 billion for this aging pipeline.
- Executives from the biggest #oilsands companies in Canada say concerns about getting their products to market are…
- It’s been a strange year in a lot of ways, and the weather is no exception.
- Abandoned wells a problem in the US too:
- The government is investing $1.6 million with Clearstone Engineering Ltd.
- At least 109 people have died in Japan following historic flooding and mudslides over the weekend that prompted…
- It’s fairly well known that a bad diet, a lack of exercise, and genetics can all contribute to type 2 diabetes.
- The orcas are also facing a new threat.
- Combined with a previous solar panel installation at Penticton Secondary, the district stands to save about $30,000…
- More than 100,000 litres of oil and water have leaked into a marsh east of Jenner in southern Alberta, according to…
- To achieve a more sustainable future, we need to tackle climate change, improve the health of the world’s oceans and…
- A mysterious surge in emissions of an illegal ozone-destroying chemical has been tracked down to plastic foam…
- A flurry of activity in a remote Canadian town is raising optimism that Royal Dutch Shell Plc and its partners are…
- It’s a mega-project with shaky economics, tons of nasty regional politics and the potential to cost billions of…
- Formaldehyde is one of the most commonly used chemicals in the nation.
- A company on Nova Scotia’s South Shore that plans to turn plastic waste into diesel and kerosene says it expects no…
- University of British Columbia scientists say they’ve found a cheap, sustainable way to build a solar cell using E.
- The Star investigated organic milk in Ontario, tracking the staple’s journey from cow to carton, and found the…
- Brian Gaulke, a member of the local chapter of the Council of Canadians as well as the North Shore environmental…
- Either support new pipelines or your community will be incinerated by an oil-carrying train.
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- A spokeswoman for Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the $420 million earmarked for Ontario under the Low…
- On July 6, 2018, there will be a sight never seen before in Nova Scotia.
- Eugene Kung with West Coast Environmental Law says the project won’t have legal certainty any time soon, as several…
- The multinational climbing team forming this unity blockade hails from the Indigenous Coast Salish community, B.C.,…
- It was carrying tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada.
- Alvaro Pinto wants Alberta’s energy regulator to follow its own oilsands rules.
- When Athabasca Chipewyan #FirstNation elder Alice Rigney gazes at the Peace-Athabasca Delta, which has sustained her…
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- Petition: Stop Spraying Nova Scotia
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- Donkin coal and the Nova Scotia media
- Fracking lurks in Nova Scotia
- Stop Alton Gas, Nova Scotia
- Nova Scotia talks fracking
- Dismantling Democracy
- News Brief — the sleeper law, Bill S-2
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- Biosolids for Dinner
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- Our Groceries are Poisoned
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- Stop LaFarge using Fracking Wastewater
- Province sends remaining wastewater to LaFarge
- May 21, 2015: Day of the Damned
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- Discussion Forum
- Government Wants the Bay of Fundy Polluted
- Radioactivity in the Bay of Fundy
- Nova Scotian’s Don’t Want Sick Fish
- Warning to visitors to Nova Scotia
- EPA gave their highest level warning!
- Game-Changing Fracking Wastewater Report
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