Ottawa – Proposed federal regulations to cut emissions from cars and trucks may have little or no effect, according to … Continue reading Canada’s greenhouse gas regulations may have little or no effect
The Yves Rocher Foundation’s Women of the Earth Awards annually rewards three Canadian women who contribute to a greener world. … Continue reading Yves Rocher Foundation’s Women of the Earth Awards
Image via Wikipedia Strathroy, Ontario – TD Bank Financial Group (TD), in partnership with Tree Canada and the Munsee-Delaware Nation, … Continue reading New carbon forest takes root in Ontario
Image by eskimo_jo via Flickr Toronto – On the second anniversary of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s historic Far North planning and … Continue reading Ecosystems at risk in Far North
Image via Wikipedia Toronto – The Ontario Greenbelt Alliance is asking the Ontario government to stop a highway extension from … Continue reading Highway Extension Violates Greenbelt Protection
Edmonton – Environmental groups and landowners have joined forces to block Capital Power’s bid to remove a legal requirement that it offset 50 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions that are released from the Genesee 3 coal power plant. Continue reading Capital Power breaks a key promise to Albertans
Image via Wikipedia Ottawa – It is time for Canada to take a long, hard look at its offshore oil … Continue reading Who would pay to clean oil spills off Canada’s coasts?
Calgary – Alberta provincial court’s guilty verdict in the Syncrude ducks case confirms the need to eliminate toxic tailings ponds … Continue reading Guilty verdict in Syncrude pond tailings case
Halifax – Northern Pulp Nova Scotia is creating a new Forest Research Program in the province. Northern Pulp’s initiative and $1 million investment over five years will drive research to study the impacts of current forest management practices and help shape and improve forest management strategies in the future. Continue reading New Forest Research Program in Nova Scotia
Image by ItzaFineDay via Flickr Edmonton – On the eve of a verdict in the Syncrude trial into the 2008 … Continue reading Shrinking environmental monitoring budgets in Alberta
Vancouver – Aarrow Productions Inc., producers of the environmental documentary series Down2Earth, will be honouring Aboriginal environmental leaders in British … Continue reading Project Down2Earth
Canadian crusader Maude Barlow, the National Chair of the citizen advocacy group The Council Of Canadians, has had to defend the life-or-death truth against corporate interests for years… And even today, it is a war un-won. Continue reading Water on Table
