Canada's Climate Daily

TMX pipeline a net money loser for feds: financial watchdog reports

The latest analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Officer, released Wednesday, shows the net present value of the pipeline is negative $600 million, leaving it worth about $1.2 billion less than the PBO's estimate in December 2020. 

Woodpecker nest halts construction of TMX pipeline near Chilliwack

The Crown corporation says the area will not be cleared until there's confirmation from a wildlife resource specialist that no nests are active, which would be the end of nesting season.

‘We’ll do it ourselves’: Weary of waiting on Ottawa, First Nation sets up marine protected area

The Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation has unilaterally established a new marine protected area, citing long delays and inaction on the part of the federal government.

Where is Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on the climate emergency?

If the finance minister really wanted to show us that she understands and is ready to lead on the climate emergency, what would she do? asks columnist Seth Klein. He has a few suggestions.

Danielle Smith is trying to provoke a constitutional crisis with Canada

After leading the Wildrose Party to defeat in a 2012 Alberta election and betraying her own caucus by crossing the floor to the governing Progressive Conservatives in 2014, Danielle Smith is taking one last kick at the can with her bid to become leader of the United Conservative Party.

Protesters pack up with a win after camping in Nova Scotia forest for over 200 days

The group found an ample amount of rare lichen among the trees slated for logging, requiring enough buffer zones to make over half of the area protected.

B.C. fish farms outside Discovery Islands can operate until at least spring 2023

The federal government says open-net pen salmon farming may continue off British Columbia's coast outside the Discovery Islands area, while Ottawa undertakes consultation on the plan to transition away from the practice.

Headlines have slowed, but has old-growth logging in B.C.?

The B.C. government has promised to save old-growth, yet giant 1,000-year-old trees continued to be cut down. “Talk and log,” an adage coined in the 1990s, returned to popular use and cynicism was everywhere.

Fate of open-pen fish farms are on the line along Canada, U.S. west coasts

This approach to salmon farming is already banned in California, Oregon, and Alaska, leaving British Columbia and Washington state as the last two holdouts.

Price of fuel likely to go higher, just in time for your summer vacation