Tag Archives: Environment
Plans advancing for First Nations' pipeline purchase
KAMLOOPS - A leader of one of the First Nations communities situated right along the path of the Trans Mountain pipeline says plans to buy the project are moving along. Chief Mike LeBourdais of the Wh...
Dec 12, 2019 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
Kamloops woman believes Lyme disease more prevalent than doctors know
KAMLOOPS - Lyme disease is a tricky subject. If you speak with health care professionals, it's relatively rare in British Columbia, affecting between 10 and 30 individuals per year. However, when you ...
Nov 05, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Clear and unequivocal: Thousands of scientists sign letter on climate crisis
An open letter signed by thousands of scientists from around the world may be the clearest demonstration yet of their near-unanimous agreement over the globe's emerging climate crisis. Published ...
Nov 04, 2019
Alberta tables climate plan for industry; retains key parts of old legislation
EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced a new climate plan for the province's big greenhouse gas emitters that it says will achieve similar emissions cuts as the former NDP government's plan and at less cos...
Oct 29, 2019 (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects
OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...
Oct 24, 2019
Oilsands carbon liability at centre of closely watched New York fraud lawsuit
Alberta's oilsands are at the centre of a closely watched court battle in New York today. The state's attorney general is accusing Exxon Mobil of misrepresenting the risks the operations face as gover...
Oct 23, 2019
City of Kamloops urges citizens to reduce the waste they generate
KAMLOOPS - This week, the City of Kamloops is celebrating Waste Reduction Week. It's a Canada-wide event that is meant to encourage everyday people to reduce the amount of waste they create daily.Each...
Oct 21, 2019 Imahe Credit: CFJC Today/City of Kamloops
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg in Edmonton Friday for climate strike
EDMONTON - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is planning to be at the Alberta legislature Friday for a climate strike. Climate Justice Edmonton says the 16-year-old Stockholm student will join acti...
Oct 16, 2019
Kamloops elementary school kids celebrate our city's rivers
KAMLOOPS - Students from Bert Edwards Science and Technology School took part in an annual tradition on Friday. Every year, the school gathers on the banks of the North Thompson to celebrate the river...
Oct 11, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Climate change threatens extinction for most birds, especially in Canada: report
Climate change threatens extinction for two-thirds of bird species across North America, including almost all of those filling the forests and tundra of northern Canada, says an extensive report....
Oct 10, 2019 (File photo/The Canadian Press)
