Environment

Dealing with drought, before it hits

CALGARY -- With many parts of western Canada drier than normal, farmers and ranchers are either thinking about or already dealing with drought conditions. Average precipitation - Agriculture CanadaJan...

Jun 12, 2019 Accumulated Precipitation from Agriculture Canada

Liberals reject most Tory amendments to environmental assessment bill

OTTAWA - The federal government is rejecting most of the amendments proposed by Conservative senators to Bill C-69. A senior government official speaking on the condition of anonymity because he wasn'...

Jun 12, 2019

Liberals to announce plan to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021

OTTAWA - The federal government will announce a plan Monday to ban harmful single-use plastics such as drinking straws as early as 2021. A government official with knowledge of the plan says no l...

Jun 09, 2019 Plastic straws are among the key items set to be banned.

Southwest Alberta ranch signs Nature Conservancy of Canada agreement

CALGARY -- On World Environment Day, June 5) the owners of Hansen Ranch, just east of Waterton Lakes National Park, made a commitment with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) to conserve its land a...

Jun 09, 2019 Hansen Ranch -Nature Conservancy of Canada -Photo credit Brent Calver

Kenney promises constitutional challenge if Bill C-48 is passed

EDMONTON -- Premier Jason Kenney says he is deeply disappointed the Senate has voted not to kill the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic in the environmentally sensitive waters off nor...

Jun 07, 2019 Jason Kenney - LethbridgeNewsNOW.com

U.S. Court lifts block on Keystone XL pipeline construction

HELENA, Mont. - An appeals court has lifted a judge's injunction that blocked construction of the Keystone X-L oil pipeline from Canada. But it's not clear whether the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal...

Andrew Snook Jun 07, 2019 Pipeline - The Canadian Press

Senate committee says oil tanker ban off B.C. targets Alberta, divides country

OTTAWA - A Senate committee says the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's northern coast will divide the country, inflame separatist sentiment...

Jun 05, 2019

Alberta makes it official; Bill passed and proclaimed to kill carbon tax

EDMONTON -- Alberta's consumer carbon tax is now officially gone.Members of the legislature voted last night to pass the bill that repeals the tax, and it was signed into law by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell...

Jun 04, 2019 Alberta Legislature - LethbridgeNewsNOW

Alberta makes it official: Bill passed and proclaimed to kill carbon tax

EDMONTON - Alberta's consumer carbon tax is now officially gone. Members of the legislature voted last night to pass the bill that repeals the tax, and it was signed into law by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mit...

Jun 04, 2019

Northern Alberta residents start returning home after two-week evacuation due to fire

Some residents in northern Alberta have started to return home after being forced by wildfires to leave their communities two weeks ago. An evacuation order was lifted this morning for resid...

Jun 03, 2019