Environment News

EDMONTON — Environment Canada has opened an investigation into whether Imperial Oil broke federal laws with two releases of tailings from its Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta.

Alberta's United Conservatives are standing by their claim the NDP’s net-zero electricity grid plan would bring a catastrophic $87-billion hit to taxpayers — an estimate the consultant the UCP hired to research the issue says is wildly overblown.

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TORONTO — Loblaw Companies Ltd. says it has reached a deal with TC Energy that will see the grocer's operations in Alberta powered entirely by wind, sun and water.

VANCOUVER — Climate change is knocking some Pacific salmon out of alignment with the growth of the ocean plankton they eat to survive, new research says.

Authorities have issued a wildfire evacuation order for an area southwest of Edmonton. An emergency alert says there is an out-of-control fire in Brazeau County, and people living in an area southeast of Drayton Valley should leave their homes.

An influential shipping industry group has quietly warned shippers to think carefully before they sign up for a new plan to reduce pollution and eventually eliminate their contribution to climate change.

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Torrential rains caused flooding in western and northern Rwanda, killing at least 129 people, a public broadcaster said Wednesday. The death toll “continues to rise,” the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency said Wednesday.

MILAN (AP) — A day and a half of nonstop rain has caused caused flooding in Italy’s populous Emilia-Romagna region, leaving at least two people dead as riverbeds left dry by drought overflowed their banks.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For the first time, researchers have captured and radio-collared a bear in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles where mountain lions have been studied for two decades, the National Park Service said Wednesday.