Environment

Gourd-Bye to your pumpkins

PRINCE GEORGE - Halloween has come and gone. What will you do with all those carved-up pumpkins? Blackspruce Farm is willing to give new life to those unwanted pumpkins and turning them into tasty tre...

Nov 01, 2019

Alberta tables climate plan for industry; retains key parts of old legislation

EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced a new climate plan for the province's big greenhouse gas emitters that it says will achieve similar emissions cuts as the former NDP government's plan and at less cos...

Oct 29, 2019 (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects

OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...

Oct 24, 2019

Council considers plastics ban

PRINCE GEORGE - Council is taking a wait and see attitude toward a ban on single-use plastic carry-out bags. That's because the provincial government is currently reviewing public feedback on the Clea...

Oct 23, 2019

Oilsands carbon liability at centre of closely watched New York fraud lawsuit

Alberta's oilsands are at the centre of a closely watched court battle in New York today. The state's attorney general is accusing Exxon Mobil of misrepresenting the risks the operations face as gover...

Oct 23, 2019

20 black bears killed

PRINCE GEORGE - 20 black bears have been killed within the city since April of this year because they posed a risk to the public. The public safety risk is being created by the way some people manage ...

Oct 22, 2019

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg in Edmonton Friday for climate strike

EDMONTON - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is planning to be at the Alberta legislature Friday for a climate strike. Climate Justice Edmonton says the 16-year-old Stockholm student will join acti...

Oct 16, 2019

Climate change threatens extinction for most birds, especially in Canada: report

Climate change threatens extinction for two-thirds of bird species across North America, including almost all of those filling the forests and tundra of northern Canada, says an extensive report....

Oct 10, 2019 (File photo/The Canadian Press)

Regional District Talking Trash

PRINCE GEORGE - The Regional District of Fraser Fort George is challenging people on how they think about their trash. Many residents do understand the 3 R's. Reduce, Re-use and Recycle. The regional ...

Oct 08, 2019

One year later still no cause on pipeline explosion

PRINCE GEORGE - This week marks one year since the natural gas pipeline exploded. On the evening of October 9, 2018, a 36-inch Enbridge natural gas pipeline ruptured and exploded less than a kilometre...

Oct 07, 2019