Gaze west from this city’s quay over the lovely silver-flecked vista of Alberni Inlet and steep, forest-clad ridges frame the horizon. Behind those ridges is Henderson Lake, wettest place in North America. Can a town barely 20 kilometres as the raven flies from where 8.9 metres – yes, that’s metres, not millimetres – of rain…
Trees that grow twice as fast as normal have been developed by scientists, in a bid to boost renewable energy and tackle climate change. They manipulated two genes to accelerate cell division in poplar trees, which were also bigger and had more leaves. The research, published in Current Biology, could boost biomass energy and help…
The province of Nova Scotia has set aside $50 million to begin cleaning up the pulp mill waste treatment plant in Boat Harbour, but there are still questions about where the effluent will be treated after the plant is taken offline. “Today’s legislation will call for the closure of the Boat Harbour effluent treatment facility…
Fifty million dollars is a lot of money, but it may not be enough to pay for the Boat Harbour cleanup. That’s according to some Pictou County residents in the know who are concerned the effluent in Boat Harbour may be more toxic than anyone knows. On Friday, the provincial government unexpectedly announced it was…
With fires already raging across parts of Siberia, Russia can expect “catastrophic” wildfires as bad as or worse than those that devastated parts of the country in summer 2010, some environmental experts say. A mild winter with little snowfall, the early onset of spring with Moscow recording its warmest Easter in over a decade, the aftermath of last year’s drought in European Russia and shortfalls in wildfire prevention…
A forest fire burning 68 kilometres northwest of Kenora is threatening two lodges, and is very close to the Caribou Falls hydroelectric dam on the English River. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry estimates Kenora fire #005 to be at about 200 hectares. MNRF Communication specialist Jonathon Scott says 10 fire ranger crews are assigned to Kenora #005. “Values protection has been set…
The B.C. government is distributing more than $1.7 million in grant money to help control the spread of invasive plant species around the province. The money will be divvied up into 29 grants and given to regional invasive species committees, local governments and the Invasive Species Council of British Columbia. This funding is in addition to…
The NAWLA Toronto regional meeting will feature two expert speakers for this afternoon event. Peter Brown, Deloitte Peter E. Brown is a Senior Practice Partner at Deloitte Canada, with 30 years’ experience serving public and private clients in Canada and internationally. Peter served as Managing Partner, Atlantic, followed by Managing Partner for our mid-market practice…
Apple is partnering with an environmental nonprofit to purchase roughly 36,000 acres of private forestland, which will be sustainably harvested and used in Apple’s packaging. The land — two tracts in Maine and North Carolina that, combined, are roughly two and a half times the size of Manhattan — will be managed by The Conservation Fund….
A pair of trumpeter swans has returned to Kangienos Lake in the Ghost Valley, raising residents’ hopes that the birds will halt the logging planned in the immediate area. The large birds, which are a species of special concern in Alberta, returned earlier this month after spending time there last year. “They’re here,” said Lori Haywood, a landowner in…