Tag Archives: Environment
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