By Radha Agarwal, Prince Rupert Northern View, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Prince Rupert’s Legacy Inc. has leased 79 acres of Watson Island to Hy2gen Canada to analyze the feasibility of a hydrogen-based energy export project for Prince Rupert.
The city wholly owns Legacy, the landholder of Watson Island.
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Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada is joining the tide of nations calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining in the high seas as an international summit gets underway Monday to decide on the issue.
“The protection, conservation, restoration and sustainable use of ocean ecosystems is essential to all life on Earth,” said Mélanie Joly, minister of foreign affairs; Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of natural resources; and Joyce Murray, minister of fisheries and oceans, in a statement released Monday.
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Canada’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 ocean
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada is under increasing pressure to declare a moratorium on seabed mining just as federal leaders are set to host an international marine conservation summit.
More than 700 international scientists and a multitude of environmental organizations are calling on Canada to ban the search for deep-sea minerals in its own waters and show global leadership by joining a chorus of countries, such as France, Germany, Chile and Pacific Island nations, in calling for a mining ban in shared international waters. The country will host the fifth International Marine Protected Area Congress (IMPAC5) starting Friday in Vancouver.
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Janeen Sutherland has been the Wilderness Tourism Association’s (WTA) Executive Director for close to three months.
The North Vancouver native has a background in tourism and sustainable community development.
Continue reading Wilderness Tourism Association’s new Executive Director: Looking towards ‘a really bright future’
