15-minute approvals: Alberta plans to automate licences for new oil and gas drilling
Lobbying records obtained by The Narwhal show that as Alberta’s new government pledges a ‘rapid...
B.C.’s ‘archaic’ mining laws urgently need update: 30 groups
Reforms required to address ‘ticking time bomb’ of abandoned mines and protect taxpayers from millions...
Feds asked to step in to save endangered spotted owls from Canadian extinction
As a UN report finds nature declining globally at unprecedented rates, Canadian groups call for...
B.C. stalls on promise to enact endangered species law
The province is home to more species at risk than any other and is one...
‘It just takes too damn long’: How Canada’s law for protecting at-risk species is failing
It can take years for declining plant and animal species to make it on to...
Major gaps in mining regulations flagged in environment commissioner’s report
Missed on-site inspections, gaps in data and a lack of monitoring among concerns raised
Fishers, First Nations fight Northern Pulp mill’s proposed effluent pipeline into ocean
After half a century of discharging contaminated waste into Boat Harbour, the Nova Scotia mill...
Alberta’s energy regulator ordered to take a new approach to punishing environmental crimes
A recent ruling aims to curtail conflicts of interest and corporate greenwashing via ‘creative sentencing,’...
Newfoundland’s offshore oil gamble
The largest oil spill in the province’s history has researchers calling for stronger oversight while...
