Canada’s fight for biodiversity needs to start at home | The Narwhal
2024年7月12日 · A proposed federal act aims to keep Canada accountable to its biodiversity targets, following losses nationwide. In northeast B.C., with just 16 caribou remaining in the Klinse-Za herd, Saulteau First Nations and West Moberly First Nations have taken matters into their own hands, building a pen for pregnant cows atop a remote mountain.
Hub for water policy, Canada Water Agency, launched in Winnipeg …
14 小时之前 · Daniel Wolfish, interim president of the Canada Water Agency, said the organization launched as a branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada in summer 2023 and began work to enact the national freshwater action plan.It has already disbursed more than $90 million to projects strengthening freshwater management, including investments in rehabilitating contaminated sites like Lake Ontario ...
Woodfibre LNG a key issue in ‘toss-up’ B.C. riding | The Narwhal
15 小时之前 · Sunlight filters through the clouds, casting a glow across the Coast Mountains as we walk along a road that contours the edge of the Skwelwil’em Squamish estuary, 50 kilometres north of Vancouver.. To our left sits an industrial park where FortisBC is drilling a tunnel to carry a natural gas pipeline deep under the estuary to the Woodfibre LNG export facility under construction on the shores ...
Let’s talk about Truth and Reconciliation Day | The Narwhal
2024年9月30日 · Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. Today is the fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Before it was a federal statutory holiday, Sept. 30 was known as Orange Shirt Day, originated by Secwépemc activist and residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad in ...
What Canada thinks about Ontario’s Highway 413 | The Narwhal
1 天前 · The previously unreleased document obtained by The Narwhal contains 37 pages of the federal Impact Assessment Agency of Canada’s feedback on it, sent to Ontario in August 2023. The Ford government has argued that Highway 413 is needed to ease the Greater Toronto Area’s traffic problem, despite evidence showing more highways don’t lessen ...
The environmental stories we’re covering in 2024 | The Narwhal
2024年1月5日 · The Narwhal recently received a generous gift in memory of Viviane Y. Woo (1949-2023) from her loving partner of 35 years, Mike Donaldson. Viviane was a committed environmentalist, avid backpacker, hiker and kayaker and enjoyed observing nature. She was also involved in efforts to save the San Francisco Bay.
Analysis Archives - The Narwhal
2024年8月12日 · Sept. 21, 2024 17 min. read. The RCMP is investigating and key players have changed roles, but is the Greenbelt any... Analysis. A tiny, endangered fish lies on the path of Highway 413. Canada has a plan, but no new power to protect it. By Kathryn Peiman.
B.C.’s newest pipeline conflict — PRGT — explained | The Narwhal
2024年10月10日 · As construction of B.C.’s newest pipeline got underway in late August, with route clearing in the northwest, Indigenous leaders burned a pipeline agreement and set up an on-going blockade.. The 800-kilometre Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline would ship natural gas from northeast B.C. to a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the northwest coast.
B.C. election platforms: where parties stand on energy issues | The …
2 天之前 · END – Apple News Only Block. As the trio of B.C. political party leaders arrived at CBC’s Vancouver offices last week for the only televised debate during the 2024 provincial election campaign, they were met by dozens of climate activists carrying red and white signs. “Frack Free B.C. Protect our climate,” some banners read.
In-Depth Archives - The Narwhal
2024年10月9日 · In-Depth. From oil well to wetland: meet the B.C. First Nations reclaiming old oil and gas wells on their homelands. By Isaac Phan Nay. Sept. 5, 2024 10 min. read. Aski Restoration is ‘healing the land’ in their historic homelands. In-Depth. Wildfires are destroying habitat for Alberta’s ‘grey ghosts.’.