Tag Archives: Environment
Carbon pricing 101: What today's increase could mean for you
OTTAWA - The national price on pollution will rise by $15 per tonne today. Here's some questions answered about what this could mean for you. Who pays the carbon price? Canada has two different carbon...
Apr 01, 2024
Mushroom Coffins: The Earth Will Thank You Later
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Everything about standard burial practices is bad news bears when it comes to the environment. Sinking lacquered coffins and metal caskets into the ground ...
May 31, 2023
The Closest Living Relative Of Extinct ‘Bigfoot’ Found?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! For decades, the legend of Bigfoot has fascinated people around the globe. Is the massive 10-foot-tall ape-like creature with shaggy hair a human relative ...
Apr 06, 2023
'Hundreds' of Canadians stranded for days in Mexico after Sunwing cancellations
Hundreds of Canadians are stranded in Cancn, Mexico and don't know how they'll get home after their Sunwing flights were cancelled last week. Passengers say they've been shuffled from hotel to hotel a...
Dec 26, 2022
Helium recovery plant being built near Brooks, Alberta
Royal Helium has recently awarded a construction contract to Alberta's, ARJAE Design Solutions Ltd. to build a helium recovery plant."It's an exciting opportunity to be participating in the helium mar...
Nov 09, 2022
Whiskey Business: Is Scotch The Future Of Fuel?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You may not often hear the words drinking and driving paired in a positive light, but that could change soon enough as a Scottish biofuel company makes hea...
Apr 29, 2022
‘It’s like Christmas’: Companies, environmentalists eager to open coal mining reports
EDMONTON, AB. -- This year, Albertans won't find out if there's coal in their stockings until after Christmas.Sometime early in 2022 - the government won't say exactly when - Energy Minister Sonya Sav...
Dec 11, 2021
Global energy transition could be a $61B opportunity for Alberta, new study finds
CALGARY, AB. -- A new study says the global energy transition could create 170,000 jobs in Alberta and contribute $61 billion to the province's GDP by 2050.But it suggests Alberta will have to swiftly...
Dec 07, 2021
‘We lost everything’: Many residents in Princeton, B.C. still digging out from flood
PRINCETON, B.C. - Mario Loutef had little sleep the four days leading up to Saturday, when he piled his ruined belongings in the street outside his home in Princeton, B.C.A vast swath of the downtown ...
Nov 21, 2021
First members of military contingent arrive in B.C. to assist with flood recovery
EDMONTON, AB. -- All eyes are on the weather over Abbotsford with clouds and rain returning to the south coast after two days of sunshine.Environment Canada is calling for showers today and tonight ov...
Nov 18, 2021