Images of the fire-ravaged landscape around Fort McMurray have prompted some nature lovers to question what will become of the area’s wildlife. But specialists across the environmental field say the animals are probably not only fine, but may even thrive in the after-effects of the wildfire. The Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation responded to civilian…
Video cameras and logs will both roll during the annual Kaslo May Days Logger Sports this month. TV personality Andrew Younghusband — known for hosting reality shows including Canada’s WorstDriver and Canada’s Worst Handyman — will participate in several events as part of a new Discoverychannel series, Tougher Than it Looks. “I think it will…
We’re just one month into the forest fire season and the fire hazard is high across northeastern Ontario. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has reported 45 fires have burned 85 hectares of land across our region so far. The region covers from Haliburton in the south, to Cochrane in the north. Many forest fires are…
Wildfire ranger Dan Gorzeman directed a crew as it put out hotspots smouldering beneath the boreal forest northeast of Slave Lake, Alta., in August 2015. But he wasn’t on the ground. He was hundreds of metres above the blackened bush in a helicopter, staring at the screen of an infrared scanner. “These scans show us where these ground fires are and we relay them on a map…
Alberta Forestry’s wildfire experts are at the mercy of the weather when forest fires burn out of control. The Fort McMurray blaze that at first seemed manageable turned into a raging inferno bearing down on the city in less than an hour. Here’s a rundown of how a destructive fire wound its way into northern…
J.D. Irving Ltd. has started to remove a mountain of garbage it dumped on its own property, after being directed by the New Brunswick Department of Environment to clean up the site in Parkindale, near Elgin. “The stockpile of Styrofoam seedling containers on JDI land in Parkindale would be considered an illegal dump under the Clean Environment Act,”…
The Ontario Biomass Producers Co-Op is taking steps to add some structure to their industry. The Co-op is implementing Central Desk Selling and a Check Off Collection Mechanism. The Check-Off will generate funds to promote the co-operative. Central Desk Selling is going to be used to develop an advertising strategy on behalf of the co-operative….
Pictou Landing First Nation and two other conservation groups will be splitting a $225,000 fine served to Northern Pulp on Wednesday for a 2014 effluent spill in Boat Harbour. In January, Northern Pulp pleaded guilty to a charge under the Federal Fisheries Act of illegally dumping a harmful substance (mainly pulp and paper effluent) into…
Seven Mi’kmaq First Nations have filed a lawsuit against the New Brunswick government over its forest policy and management agreements with industrial forestry companies. The chiefs contend the province’s forest strategy, management agreements, management plans and the Crown Lands and Forests Act itself amount to an unjustified infringement of their Aboriginal and treaty rights. “We will continue to…
We’re just one month into the forest fire season and the fire hazard is high across northeastern Ontario. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has reported 45 fires have burned 85 hectares of land across our region so far. The region covers from Haliburton in the south, to Cochrane in the north. Many forest fires are…