By Matteo Cimellaro, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Mining projects and protected land can co-exist, two provincial environment ministers said at a press conference on Friday after two days of meetings with their counterparts from across the country.
Continue reading Mining and conservation can go hand in hand, environment ministers say
Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
An unprecedented global treaty to protect nature in the high seas was secured after a last and final push in negotiations that lasted nearly 40 hours over the weekend.
After close to two decades of discussion, five years of difficult negotiations, and a previous attempt to seal the deal, conference president Rena Lee announced an agreement on the UN High Seas Biodiversity Treaty late Saturday.
Continue reading ‘Excruciating’ negotiations produce an unprecedented global treaty to protect the high seasCanada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s do-or-die time for Canada and the rest of the international community to finally get a deal done to protect the world’s oceans, say global leaders, environmental groups, and celebrity activists.
International delegates are hunkering down in the back rooms at the United Nations in New York until March 3 in a last-ditch attempt to broker a legally binding deal to protect biodiversity on the high seas.
Continue reading Clock is running out for Canada to help secure a global treaty to protect the oceanBy John Woodside, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
After discovering hundreds of millions of barrels of oil underground and securing a new licence to drill the site, Norwegian energy giant Equinor is one step closer to developing Canada’s first deepwater oil project off the East Coast.
Continue reading Equinor is getting closer to launching Canada’s first deepwater oil project
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The nation’s Species at Risk Act is no law at all, says a local environmental group.
The Valhalla Wilderness Society contends that the Species at Risk Act (SARA) does not provide protection under the law for the endangered mountain caribou and its habitat, 30 years after Canada signed an accord — at the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Rio De Janeiro — to protect biodiversity, which spawned the enactment of SARA.
Continue reading Canada betrays its ‘Species at Risk Act’ while province wipes out mountain caribou habitat: VWS
