Ecology/Environment

17/06/25
Author: 
David Thurton
Prime Minister Mark Carney has stressed that this moment requires the government to move quickly on 'nation-building projects.' (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

June 14, 2025

Sweeping powers, level of consultation questioned as bill races through Parliament

Liberals are attempting to bulldoze their mega projects bill through Parliament, according to critics who say the legislation interferes with Indigenous rights, environmental protection and democracy itself.

The government's One Canadian Economy Act is generating controversy inside and outside the House of Commons, with some arguing it confers king-like powers to rush projects deemed in the national interest to completion.

08/06/25
Author: 
Sonal Gupta
Aerial view of Prince Rupert, the coastal hub linked to the PRGT pipeline project, which secured its environmental permit to operate indefinitely. Photo by Flickr/ Dennis Sylvester Hurd ( CC BY 2.0)

Jun. 6, 2025

The Prince Rupert gas pipeline project is “substantially started” and will keep its valid environmental certificate for the life of the pipeline, the BC Environmental Assessment Office has ruled.

The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline is jointly owned by the Nisga’a Nation and Western LNG, but other First Nations and environmentalists say the decision favours corporate interests over climate commitments and Indigenous rights.

08/06/25
Author: 
Bridget Stringer-Holden
Geophysicist Ralph Keeling in his lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, where carbon dioxide levels are tested. ( Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego)

Jun. 7, 2025

The CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii has passed 430 parts per million

When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's atmosphere was 325 parts per million (ppm).

By 9/11, it was 369 ppm, and when COVID-19 shut down normal life in 2020, it had shot up to 414 parts ppm.

This week, our planet hit the highest levels ever directly recorded: 430 parts per million.

23/05/25
Author: 
Mitchell Beer
Pick a Path installation - Common Horizon

May  22, 2025

Ahead of next week’s Speech from the Throne, four national climate groups mounted a 95-metre fabric installation in Ottawa’s Major’s Hill Park on Wednesday, urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to “pick a path” between new oil and gas pipelines and climate action.

13/05/25
Author: 
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Dr. Melissa Lem, Kai Nagata, Emiko Newman, Tracey Saxby, Kiki Wood
Piping on the top of a receiving platform for the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline terminus at the LNG Canada export terminal in Kitimat. DARRYL DYCK, THE CANADIAN PRESS
May 12, 2025

For years, B.C. has called itself a climate leader. Now, the provincial climate plan is a shambles.

02/05/25
Author: 
inslie Cruickshank
Most of B.C.’s boreal caribou live in Treaty 8 territory. Decades of oil and gas development have carved up the forests they call home, leaving them vulnerable to predators. Photo: Ryan Dickie / The Narwhal

Apr. 30, 2025

B.C. allows industrial logging in critical habitat for at-risk species — part of the reason why it’s not meeting federal standards

More than 80 per cent of the critical habitat for at-risk species in B.C. fails to meet federal protection standards, according to a government briefing document.

22/04/25
Author: 
Damian Carrington
A global survey of 130,000 people across 125 nations found a 'silent majority' in every country thinks their national government should be doing more to fight the climate crisis. Photo by the Province of British Columbia/Flickr

Apr. 22, 2025

An overwhelming majority among the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis, but they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research has shown.

Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say.

21/04/25
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Apr. 14, 2025

Hotter seas supercharge storms and destroy critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs

The climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs.

05/04/25
Author: 
Andrew Kurjata
The Maran Gas Roxana LNG carrier navigates through the Douglas Channel to Kitimat, B.C., on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (LNG Canada

Apr. 3, 2025

LNG Canada is 'largest single private sector investment' in Canadian history, government says

A 204-metre tanker ship has arrived on B.C.'s North Coast, making it the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier to arrive in Kitimat, as a major energy export project prepares to come online.

The Maran Gas Roxana, sailing under the flag of Greece, made its way through the Douglas Channel Wednesday, carrying a load of LNG that will be used for equipment testing at the LNG Canada site.

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