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A brief look at some of Canada's biggest wildfires in the last two decades
OTTAWA - Okanagan Mountain Park, B.C., 2003: 25,600 hectares burned, 33,050 people evacuated, 238 homes burned. McLure, B.C., 2003: 26,420 hectares burned, destroying or damaging 72 homes, and forcing...
Jan 07, 2020
Conservation officer shoots antlers to break apart two deer locked together
A whitetail deer is alive thanks to the marksmanship of a Saskatchewan conservation officer after its antlers became locked together with another deer's. The Saskatchewan Association of Conservation O...
Jan 07, 2020
New industry develops around sucking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere
Somewhere in west Texas, amid one of the most productive oilfields in the continent, a Canadian company is building a plant that it hopes will eventually suck from the air a million tonnes of carbon b...
Dec 29, 2019
Last tanker cars to be removed from site of derailment in Saskatchewan
LANIGAN, Sask. - Canadian Pacific Railway says it expects the last of its damaged cars will be removed by the end of the week from the site of a fiery derailment in Saskatchewan. It also says in an em...
Dec 20, 2019 Crews work to contain burning oil tankers from a CPR train derailment west of Guernsey on December 9th, 2019 (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Sask. environment minister ‘jovial’ after meeting with federal minister
Seeming in fairly high spirits Thursday afternoon, Saskatchewan’s environment minister spoke to media after his meeting with his federal counterpart. Dustin Duncan said he’s now looking fo...
Dec 19, 2019
Feds approve Alberta’s carbon tax on big industrial emitters
OTTAWA - The federal government is giving the Alberta government a passing grade for its industrial carbon tax, avoiding at least one showdown with the province over climate change. In late October, A...
Dec 06, 2019
Environment champions want voters to make climate their main priority this fall
OTTAWA - Two leading Canadian activists say voters need to think about climate change as if we are country at war against greenhouse-gas emissions. "There's never been a moment quite like this in huma...
Sep 03, 2019
Environment groups warned saying climate change is real could be partisan
OTTAWA - A pre-election chill has descended over some environment charities after Elections Canada warned them that discussing the dangers of climate change during the upcoming federal campaign could ...
Aug 19, 2019
Business community shares concerns about Saskatoon's climate plan
An ambitious plan to tackle climate change in Saskatoon received the backing of councillors Tuesday, despite opposition from the city's business community. The Low Emissions Community Plan released la...
Aug 07, 2019 Arial view of the city of Saskatoon. (Jay Thomas/650 CKOM)
Saskatoon mayor defends proposed plan to fight climate change
Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark says a new city report is a good starting point for a conversation on how to fight climate change. The Low Emissions Community (LEC) Plan released by city staff on Thursd...
Jul 29, 2019
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