Environment

Environmental groups keep fighting KXL despite Biden's promise to block pipeline

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Critics of Canada's most controversial cross-border pipeline projects aren't taking their demise for granted under president-elect Joe Biden. A new report from the U.S.-based Rainfo...

Dec 08, 2020

Fossil fuels to decline but remain big player in Canada's energy use by 2050: report

OTTAWA - The Canada Energy Regulator says reaching net-zero emissions over the next 30 years will to require a much more aggressive transition away from oil and gas.The annual Energy Futures report re...

Nov 24, 2020

C.E.R. issues fine for 2018 pipeline explosion

PRINCE GEORGE - Canada's Energy Regulator has issued a $40,000 fine to Texas based Westcoast Energy Inc. for the 2018 pipeline explosion 13 km northeast of Prince George.The explosion happened close t...

Nov 13, 2020

Protesters gather for Anti-glyphosate rally

PRINCE GEORGE - Despite the brisk wind, about fifty people came out in support of Stop the Spray, which is hoping to bring a forestry practice to an end. Canfor has applied to renew a new five-year Pe...

Nov 12, 2020

Parks Canada plans first captive breeding program for Jasper National Park caribou

EDMONTON - Caribou herds in Canada's Rocky Mountains are now so precarious that Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round up females from nearly vanished herds and pen them in a captive breeding progr...

Nov 02, 2020

'Discovery by little Nathan:' 12-year-old makes fossil find in southern Alberta

Aspiring paleontologist Nathan Hrushkin speaks with pride about his "killer resume." The Grade 7 student from Calgary discovered a rare dinosaur skeleton earlier this year at Horseshoe Canyon in the B...

Oct 15, 2020

Wildfire mitigation underway north of town

PRINCE GEORGE - The BC Wildfire Service will be undertaking a large project in the Pilot Mountain area north of the city in a bid to reduce fuels that lead to forest fires. "The first phase is going t...

Oct 08, 2020

PacBio thinking outside the box

PRINCE GEORGE - Pacific BioEnergy is thinking outside the box when it comes to brush-clearing on a couple of its blocks in the Bobtail region.They are using goats and sheep. "At Pacific BioEnergy, we'...

Sep 25, 2020

"This model of forestry must be turned upside down," rally held at Mr. PG

PRINCE GEORGE - A little over 20 people showed up for a rally in support of old-growth forests at the junction of Highway 97 and 16 around noon Friday.Conservation North says after 50 years of unrestr...

Sep 18, 2020

Prince George still smokey from fires in US

PRINCE GEORGE - The skies are still smokey in Prince George, and it's been a few days. It starts off in the morning coupled with fog, reducing visibility before the fog lifts in the afternoon.Yet, the...

Sep 18, 2020