Eight years of planning finally comes together for McColgan family Eight year ago, Don McColgan envisioned a plan to expand and modernize his Quyon Ferry operation. And this Friday, that project finally gets underway. “I would have never gotten into it had I known it would take this long,” McColgan states. There have been a few false starts for the project along the way, and hundreds ...
OTTAWA — Fisheries and Oceans Canada acknowledges its reputation and capacity to protect the nation’s water are at risk because of a “change agenda” that also could be overturned in court, the department’s minister, Keith Ashfield, said in a report tabled this month in Parliament. But the report suggested the department is considering “communications” ...
Canadians should worry about Bill C-38, Ottawa’s bid to gut the Environmental Assessment Act. Let’s not forget that there is a compelling reason for environmental assessments of industrial projects. Back in the days before environmental assessment laws, much unnecessary damage was done to the environment, to people, to the economy and to taxpayers. For example: ? Mines have ...
The federal government has confirmed what the rumour mill suspected: it shut down an arm’s length, independent advisory group because it didn’t like the advice it was getting on addressing climate change. Funding for the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) was cut in the last budget, giving the group just one year to live. Since 1988, it has been producing ...
The Harper government is giving a wide range of new powers to cabinet ministers to decide the scope of environmental assessments, as it proceeds with an omnibus budget bill that overhauls the way Ottawa will review major resource projects. Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver has promoted the legislative changes as providing greater certainty to investors keen to develop Canada’s vast ...
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s past as an industrial city haunts it still, with a new environmental report showing that several of the capital’s landmarks and civic facilities stand on polluted land. The annual report on contaminated sites for which the federal government is responsible, released Tuesday by federal Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan, shows that of the 22,000 sites identified ...
The Harper government is planning to overhaul the Fisheries Act to reduce federal protection of fish habitats, saying it will focus on “vital” waterways that are home to important species. Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield said the existing rules treat all bodies of water the same, regardless of size or importance to fisheries. The changes are part of the Conservative government’s ...
Tiny translucent elvers – alien-looking baby eels the size of toothpicks, with big black eyes and spines – are mysterious creatures, floating thousands of kilometres from their birthplace in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean before ending up each spring in Maine’s rivers and streams. But there’s no mystery about what’s drawing hundreds of fishermen to riverbanks to ...
Change is in the air at Canada’s single-largest scientific outpost, located two hours northwest of Ottawa. That’s the history-rich home of Chalk River Laboratories, the heart of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s nuclear research division. You’ll recall that the Crown corporation’s commercial Candu reactor division was sold last year to Canadian engineering giant SNC Lavalin. That ...
The federal government is eyeing the site of the Chalk River nuclear reactor, 160 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, as a radioactive waste site.
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