Environment

The Scamp Industries Ltd. website shows several awards the company displays.

Aldergrove fuel firm fined $200,000 over federal gas tank regulations

The company entered a guilty plea for five counts under federal law

The Scamp Industries Ltd. website shows several awards the company displays.
ENVIRONOTES: Plenty of lessons to be learned in the garden

ENVIRONOTES: Plenty of lessons to be learned in the garden

Math, chemistry, physics and biology meet in the vegetable plot

  • Jun 11, 2020
ENVIRONOTES: Plenty of lessons to be learned in the garden
Old growth wood remains a mainstay for logging in Vancouver Island. (Dave Mann)

B.C.’s logging industry pleads for certainty as push away from old-growth continues

Truck Loggers Association wants to run their business without worrying about changing goalposts

Old growth wood remains a mainstay for logging in Vancouver Island. (Dave Mann)
Big old trees almost gone forever in B.C., scientists warn

Big old trees almost gone forever in B.C., scientists warn

Fewer mammoth old-growth trees remain than you imagine

Big old trees almost gone forever in B.C., scientists warn
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson speaks with the media following a cabinet meeting in Ottawa, Tuesday, February 4, 2020. Environment Canada is doing fewer inspections, investigations and prosecutions to enforce its law protecting people from toxic chemicals and air pollution. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Investigations, prosecutions for polluting in Canada down sharply since 2015

The Canadian Environmental Protection Act governs how Canada manages toxic chemicals and air pollution

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson speaks with the media following a cabinet meeting in Ottawa, Tuesday, February 4, 2020. Environment Canada is doing fewer inspections, investigations and prosecutions to enforce its law protecting people from toxic chemicals and air pollution. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
A shopper leaves a grocery store carrying his groceries in plastic bags Tuesday, August 30, 2016 in Brossard, Que. In mid January the British Columbia government announced it was looking at a province-wide ban on single-use plastic grocery bags to put an end to a piece-meal, city-by-city approach to the problem of plastic pollution. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Plastics bans, environmental monitoring get short shrift during pandemic

More single-use items are being used over fears of spreading COVID-19

A shopper leaves a grocery store carrying his groceries in plastic bags Tuesday, August 30, 2016 in Brossard, Que. In mid January the British Columbia government announced it was looking at a province-wide ban on single-use plastic grocery bags to put an end to a piece-meal, city-by-city approach to the problem of plastic pollution. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Sayward’s acting mayor, Bill Ives, spotted this grizzly bear in the vicinity while he was out on a walk. (Submitted photo)

After grizzly spotted in B.C. village, mayor warns not to come searching for the bears

Wildlife warnings have been issued in Sayward, but people are ignoring it and going out in search of the bear to get photographs

Sayward’s acting mayor, Bill Ives, spotted this grizzly bear in the vicinity while he was out on a walk. (Submitted photo)
LETTERS: More Park and Ride opportunities needed

LETTERS: More Park and Ride opportunities needed

Editor: Re: Taking a wider look at the transportation problem, April 23…

  • Apr 30, 2020
LETTERS: More Park and Ride opportunities needed
Mali the grizzly bear was relocated to a remote mainland habitat days before it was shot dead. (Facebook/Grizzly Bear Foundation)

Grizzly bear relocated from small island off B.C. coast shot dead in self-defence

Mali, the bear rescued in historic joint efforts, was shot dead in an act of self-defence

Mali the grizzly bear was relocated to a remote mainland habitat days before it was shot dead. (Facebook/Grizzly Bear Foundation)
LETTERS: Earth’s capacity is limited

LETTERS: Earth’s capacity is limited

Editor: Re: Dangers of high-density, April 16 letters I am writing in…

  • Apr 23, 2020
LETTERS: Earth’s capacity is limited
ENVIRONOTES: Taking a wider look at the transportation problem

ENVIRONOTES: Taking a wider look at the transportation problem

Let’s look at our transport problem, not as an engineer or economist,…

  • Apr 22, 2020
ENVIRONOTES: Taking a wider look at the transportation problem
It’s difficult to imagine that just 50 years ago awareness of the state of the environment was not part of the collective consciousness. Photo: Metro Creative

Earth Day: A new relationship to wildlife is needed for nature and people

Dan Kraus is senior conservation biologist with the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

  • Apr 22, 2020
It’s difficult to imagine that just 50 years ago awareness of the state of the environment was not part of the collective consciousness. Photo: Metro Creative
(Black Press Media files)

Earth Day: The roots of our current environmental crisis go back 12,000 years

The story of how our current environmental state came to be is over 12,000 years old

  • Apr 22, 2020
(Black Press Media files)
A pumpjack works at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Alberta’s Orphan Well Association is warning that the financial failure of Calgary junior producer Houston Oil and Gas Ltd. leaves more than 1,400 wells without a responsible owner. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Trudeau says $1.7B coming for orphaned-well cleanups

Federal government is also creating a $750-million fund to cut methane emissions

A pumpjack works at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. Alberta’s Orphan Well Association is warning that the financial failure of Calgary junior producer Houston Oil and Gas Ltd. leaves more than 1,400 wells without a responsible owner. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Metro Vancouver district director Ray Robb (standing) distributes binders to appellants including Bill Ridge (left), during proceedings held in February. (File photo)

Hearing regarding South Surrey galvanizing plant air quality permit postponed

Officials cite COVID-19 pandemic in tentative rescheduling of proceedings

Metro Vancouver district director Ray Robb (standing) distributes binders to appellants including Bill Ridge (left), during proceedings held in February. (File photo)
Surrey students paint a planet in peril

Surrey students paint a planet in peril

Artwork depicting enviromental concerns can be viewed in an online exhibit

Surrey students paint a planet in peril
ENVIRO NOTES: Planning ahead for effects of climate change

ENVIRO NOTES: Planning ahead for effects of climate change

We have the tools, it’s time to start using them

  • Mar 13, 2020
ENVIRO NOTES: Planning ahead for effects of climate change
Chinook in the lower Fraser River are among the stocks of concern. (April Bencze/Raincoast) Chinook in the lower Fraser River are among the stocks of concern. (April Bencze/Raincoast)

Restoration of salmon habitat in the Lower Fraser River is key: report

Raincoast Conservation calling on government to match funding to scale of problem

Chinook in the lower Fraser River are among the stocks of concern. (April Bencze/Raincoast) Chinook in the lower Fraser River are among the stocks of concern. (April Bencze/Raincoast)
Bubbles fill the air during the 2019 Party for the Planet held at Surrey Civic Plaza. (submitted photo: City of Surrey)

1,000 free plants for Party-goers at Surrey’s 10th Earth Day celebration

Day-long April event planned at Civic Plaza

Bubbles fill the air during the 2019 Party for the Planet held at Surrey Civic Plaza. (submitted photo: City of Surrey)
GREEN SPACE: The problem with plastic is its perpetuity

GREEN SPACE: The problem with plastic is its perpetuity

Every piece of plastic every created still exists in some form

  • Feb 28, 2020
GREEN SPACE: The problem with plastic is its perpetuity