Tag Archives: Environment
Pupils flee as grizzly attacks elementary class in B.C., injuring 11, some critically
A grizzly bear has attacked a group of elementary school students and teachers in the B.C. central coast community of Bella Coola, leaving two people critically injured and two others seriously hurt. ...
Nov 20, 2025
Fire prompts evacuations at UN climate talks in Brazil, but officials say no one hurt
BELEM, Brazil (AP) - A fire spread through pavilions being used for U.N. climate talks in Brazil and prompted evacuations Thursday on the next-to-last day of the conference but nobody was hurt, offici...
Nov 20, 2025
'Devil in the details' on Alberta-Ottawa energy accord: former pipeline executive
CALGARY - Alberta and Ottawa are said to be closing in on a "grand bargain" that could see a new West Coast oilsands pipeline built in tandem with emissions-offsetting measures, but it's unclear it wo...
Nov 19, 2025
RCMP says B.C. ostrich farm investigations continue, charges neither laid nor stayed
RCMP say investigations are ongoing in relation to their enforcement operation at a British Columbia farm where avian influenza prompted the cull of hundreds of ostriches, with charges neither laid no...
Nov 19, 2025
Loaded barge bound for Seattle sinking off central B.C. coast
A barge carrying numerous cargo containers is sinking in the waters off British Columbia's central coast, and the local First Nation says there is concern about possible pollution because it's unclear...
Nov 19, 2025
Loaded barge bound for Seattle sinking off central B.C. coast
A barge carrying numerous cargo containers is sinking in the waters off British Columbia's central coast, and the local First Nation says there is concern about possible pollution because it's unclear...
Nov 19, 2025
Ending tanker ban risks billions, B.C. minister says; Liberal MPs say consent needed
British Columbia's jobs minister says ending a tanker ban on the province's northern coast to service a pipeline from Alberta to B.C. would put billions of dollars' worth of other projects at risk by ...
Nov 19, 2025
Ending tanker ban risks billions, B.C. minister says; Liberal MPs say consent needed
British Columbia's jobs minister says ending a tanker ban on the province's northern coast to service a pipeline from Alberta to B.C. would put billions of dollars' worth of other projects at risk by ...
Nov 19, 2025
B.C. abandons EV rebates to the Feds as it scraps sales mandate of 100% by 2035
VICTORIA - British Columbia has abandoned a rebate program for electric vehicles that it paused six months ago and is scrapping a mandate that every new vehicle sold in the province must be zero-emiss...
Nov 18, 2025
'Valid' questions for CFIA but few simple answers in wake of B.C. ostrich cull
Infectious disease veterinarian Scott Weese says the hundreds of ostriches shot dead on a rainy night at a British Columbia farm this month "probably weren't infected" with avian influenza at the time...
Nov 18, 2025