Environment Canada adopts B.C. model to warn of smoke hazards

Environment Canada adopts B.C. model to warn of smoke hazards

Last year’s record-breaking wildfire season forced Canadians to become familiar with the scale of air pollution as hazardous smoke drifted across the country.

Environment Canada’s colour-coded Air Quality Health Index (AQHI), designed to help people understand health risks associated with contaminated air, was closely watched under hazy, orange skies that

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B.C. setting minister hails local climate development but advocates say LNG growth hazards it all

B.C. setting minister hails local climate development but advocates say LNG growth hazards it all

B.C.’s setting minister says 2023’s progress report on greenhouse fuel reductions demonstrates the NDP government’s local weather plan is working but environmental teams alert ongoing improvement of the liquefied organic gas sector could reverse those people reductions.

The report, produced Thursday, stated web emissions — emissions minus carbon sequestered by

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Prepared B.C. gold mine in the vicinity of Quesnel passes environmental evaluation – BC

Prepared B.C. gold mine in the vicinity of Quesnel passes environmental evaluation – BC

Designs for a gold mine in close proximity to Wells, in B.C.’s Cariboo area, took a substantial move forward with the granting of an environmental assessment certification.

Ecosystem Minister George Heyman and Mines Minister Josie Osborne claimed in a statement Tuesday that

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B.C. raps Coastal GasLink with big fantastic for false details, environmental deficiencies – BC

B.C. raps Coastal GasLink with big fantastic for false details, environmental deficiencies – BC

The business behind the Coastal GasLink gasoline pipeline venture in northern B.C. has been given a whopping $346,000-good from the B.C. govt for environmental deficiencies and supplying phony and deceptive details.

According to the Ministry of Setting, Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd. failed to meet up with conditions of its environmental

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