Tag Archives: Environment
Northern Alberta residents start returning home after two-week evacuation due to fire
Some residents in northern Alberta have started to return home after being forced by wildfires to leave their communities two weeks ago. An evacuation order was lifted this morning for resid...
Jun 03, 2019
Kenney says carbon taxes won't help stop forest fire threat
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says forest fires have always been around and carbon taxes won't do anything to change that. Kenney says a number of factors, including climate change,...
May 31, 2019
Alberta passes law to kill provincial carbon tax, federal tax looms
EDMONTON - Alberta's consumer carbon tax is dead, setting the stage for a showdown with Ottawa over the imposition of a new one.The province cancelled its tax on gasoline at the pumps and on home heat...
May 30, 2019
Mayor says northern Alberta town still under threat from nearby wildfire
HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - The mayor of a northwestern Alberta town says the threat from a powerful wildfire burning three kilometres away has not passed and warns evacuees they could be out longer...
May 24, 2019
City moves ahead with carbon reduction plan
PRINCE GEORGE - The City of Prince George, as a corporation, is moving in the right direction with its Climate Change Strategy, but the same cannot be said of the community at large. The Supervisor of...
May 22, 2019 Vehicle Emissions
Wind remains on firefighters' side in bout with northern Alberta wildfire
HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - Despite heavy smoke, officials say a lighter wind out of the northeast has allowed for great progress on reining in a wildfire that's forced thousands of people from thei...
May 22, 2019
City urges care for the wetlands
PRINCE GEORGE - It's Water Week and the City took time this afternoon to talk about wetlands. The Hudson's Bay Wetland receive a lot of storm water every day. That's the water that in collected from r...
May 09, 2019 Hudson's Bay Wetland
Another successful sturgeon release
Nearly 20 years ago, the Nechako White Sturgeon started to disappear from the Vanderhoof area and a group of locals began a modest program to bring the fish numbers up again. Last week, 600 school chi...
May 06, 2019