Canada's National Observer: Climate News
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Canada's National Observer publishes journalism in the public interest. Award-winning investigative journalism and daily news reporting on climate change, energy, the environment and politics, along with a Special Reports magazine, multi-media features, analysis and opinions.
DFO shuts most B.C. fisheries in desperate effort to save salmon
WEBJun 29, 2021 · Commercial salmon fishing will be closed in most of coastal B.C. this year and into the foreseeable future to save the West Coast's critically low fish stocks, the federal government announced Tuesday.. Nearly 60 per cent of the province's commercial salmon fisheries, once the economic and cultural backbone of the B.C. coast, will be forced to shutter in 2021, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO ...
New News | Canada's National Observer: Climate News
WEBCanada slowed flow of money into foreign fossil fuels, but lags on renewables. One of 39 nations that pledged to end non-domestic support for fossil fuels at the COP26 climate change conference in 2021, Canada spent $6.75-billion less last year backing new sector projects, according to International Institute of Sustainable Development. By.
The oil and gas emissions cap is the trophy Trudeau wants. A …
WEBDec 2, 2023 · “The Liberal Party of Canada won the election in 2021 in large part for having the most ambitious and achievable climate plan, and it continues to be the priority topic that the Liberal Party is most trusted on,” the open letter sent to Trudeau reads. “Consistently one of the top three most important issues in Canada, it will be critical in the next election.
Ontario officer was 'ambushed': OPP commissioner
WEBDec 29, 2022 · An Ontario Provincial Police officer who was fatally shot while responding to a call was "essentially ambushed," the commissioner of the force said Wednesday night. Police have said 28-year-old Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala responded to a call for a vehicle in a ditch just west of Hagersville, Ont. on Tuesday afternoon and was shot dead when he ...
Canada’s oil and gas emissions continue to rise
WEBMay 3, 2024 · In 2022, Canada’s emissions totalled 708 megatonnes (Mt) of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. That represents a 1.3 per cent increase from 2021 or a 5.9 per cent drop from 2019. Specifically, sector greenhouse gas emissions in 2022 were: 217 Mt in oil and gas, up one Mt from the previous year. 156 Mt …
Why Newfoundland and Labrador is going all-in on offshore oil
WEBSep 12, 2022 · For Newfoundland and Labrador, oil is its major source of revenue and a perpetual thorn in its side. The province has ambitious plans to double offshore oil production by 2030, and is encouraging major oil companies to explore its offshore further in an attempt to attract multibillion-dollar investments. In the first part of this series, Canada’s National Observer mapped all current oil ...
B.C. migrant workers suffer extreme heat: study
WEBAug 19, 2024 · In August, migrant workers noted temperatures as high as 42.8 degrees, far exceeding B.C. Agricultural Council and Western Agricultural Labour Initiative guidelines of 25.5 degrees and 27 degrees, respectively. The pilot study’s findings also show indoor temperatures consistently surpass outdoor temperatures, leaving workers exposed to ...
Montréal is hosting COP15. Here’s why Canadians should care
WEBJul 7, 2022 · Canadians should be paying close attention to what some optimistic projections are already calling the “Paris moment” for nature — and not just because we’re playing host.. This December’s UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) summit, or COP15, has been relocated from Kunming, China, to Montréal. Countries will attempt to agree on a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that ...
Pierre Poilievre’s dangerous dance with a Diagolon extremist
WEBAug 23, 2022 · “Militant accelerationism” is, according to Kriner, “a set of tactics and strategies designed to put pressure on and exacerbate latent social divisions, often through violence, thus hastening societal collapse.” Other similar militant accelerationists include the “Boogaloo Movement,” a group of American anti-government and anti-police agitators who believe in the inevitability (and ...