Environmental professionals and public participation An entire industry has developed in Canada that prepares environmental risk assessments and evaluations of impacts to wildlife and other species, water quality, recreational values, the...
Grass, sky, gone. The latest ecosystem status and trends report for Canada, released last fall, indicates rapid decline of native grasslands. Grasslands are among the most endangered ecologies in the world...
Can Alberta learn from Fukushima? Most media reports in Canada addressing the wake of the Fukushima meltdown and two explosions in Japan this past week have largely parroted the media releases...
New research on public health implications of coal power New research published in Environmental Health Perspectives this month compares public health gains from electricity consumption versus impacts of high electricity consumption....
Bill C-469, Federal Environmental Bill of Rights report of the Environment committee submitted to the House of Commons The Report Bill C-469, An Act to establish a Canadian Environmental Bill of...
RSC Report: Science, regulation and the precautionary principle By Laura Bowman and Jason Unger Earlier this week the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) released a lengthy report on the state of oilsands...
Killer whale judgment released – Canada still has responsible government David Suzuki Foundation et al. v. Canada (Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Minister of the Environment) 2010 FC 1233 The Federal Court...
Update: Irrigation District allowed to sell its water As of November 18, 2010, Alberta environment has approved the Eastern Irrigation District's application to change the purpose of its water licence from...
End of the line for Caribou in Jasper - Maligne Lake Road Despite the declines of caribou in Jasper, and the extirpation of caribou from Banff, still no plans to close...
International Year of Biodiversity Closes on a depressing note The 193 UN parties to the 1993 Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) are meeting in Japan this month, including Canada. This coincides with...
National pollutant data finally released, sort of In 2009 MiningWatch Canada won a federal court case launched in 2007 regarding whether or not mining companies had to report the pollution they...