The Narwhal | News on Climate Change, Environmental Issues in …
WEB2 days ago · The Narwhal | News on Climate Change, Environmental Issues in Canada. News. Nearly 2,000 species are at-risk in B.C. Only 42 are being considered for new protections. Internal government records show officials are working to update list of at-risk species under forestry legislation for the first time in …
Carbon capture in Canada: a guide to the investment boom - The …
WEBBy Drew Anderson. Jan. 24, 2022 17 min. read. Share. The Sturgeon refinery complex feeds captured carbon into the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line, which whisks it hundreds of kilometres south where it's used to force oil out of old wells. In recent years, governments have increasingly invested public funds into carbon capture, citing net-zero goals.
Endangered Caribou in Canada - The Narwhal
WEBAug 23, 2024 · In an attempt to save caribou herds that are close to local extinction, the Alberta and B.C. governments use the controversial strategy of killing wolves, a main predator of caribou. During the winter of 2019-2020, the B.C. government spent almost $2 million to kill 463 wolves in the habitat of 10 endangered southern mountain caribou herds.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault: ‘we need to learn to do …
WEBJan 9, 2022 · Photo: Selena Phillips-Boyle / The Narwhal. In-Depth. ‘We need to learn to do things faster’: Canada’s new environment minister talks climate — and compromise. From overseeing 2030 targets to phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, Steven Guilbeault has been tasked with one of the largest to-do lists of the entire federal cabinet.
Ontario Greenbelt: Latest News and Updates | The Narwhal
WEBJun 12, 2024 · The Ford government has repeatedly pledged to protect the Ontario Greenbelt. It added 360 hectares of land that was already safe from development to the protected area in 2021. Its new plan, unveiled in November 2022 — and quietly finalized in December 2022, despite protests across the province — will remove about 7,400 acres of …
A guide to the Ontario Greenbelt’s endangered species, waterways …
WEBNov 18, 2021 · Everything you need to know about the endangered species, waterways and farmland in southern Ontario’s Greenbelt. More than nine million people live within 20 kilometres of Ontario’s two-million-acre protected Greenbelt. For two decades, it's been hailed as a conservation success story, but it’s still under pressure from urban sprawl.
Meet the people saving Canada’s native grasslands
WEBJul 31, 2020 · After decades of destruction, people like Fox and Plemel-Stronks are taking things into their own hands to preserve the native grasslands that are left and bring the damaged land back from the brink. Mickenzie Plemel-Stronks is the cattle industry liaison for Ducks Unlimited Canada. Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal.
Ontario election platforms: where parties stand on climate issues
WEBMay 29, 2022 · Illustration: Kagan McLeod / The Narwhal. News. Ontario election 2022: where the PCs, Liberals, NDP and Greens stand on climate and environment. After four years of environmental cuts by the Progressive Conservatives, all of Ontario’s parties are pledging to reduce emissions and turn the province into an electric-vehicle powerhouse.
B.C.’s Site C dam: 10 things we know about the latest review | The …
WEBMar 10, 2021 · Then, on Feb. 26, the B.C. government released a barrage of information about the Site C dam’s stability issues and dropped a financial bombshell. The dam, announced in 2010 as a $6.6 billion project, will now cost $16 billion to complete. That makes Site C the most expensive dam in Canadian history …
The art of fire: reviving the Indigenous craft of cultural burning ...
WEBSep 20, 2020 · In-Depth. The art of fire: reviving the Indigenous craft of cultural burning. Indigenous Peoples have managed their lands with fire since time immemorial. But colonizers criminalized the practice, leading to a loss of culture and an increase in the risk of wildfires. Now, a small but mighty group of people is revitalizing the craft.