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Proposed North Vancouver hydrogen plant goes to public hearing

Proposed North Vancouver hydrogen plant goes to public hearing

If approved by council, the hydrogen plant could have the greenhouse gas impact of taking 30,000 gasoline-burning vehicles off the road.
B.C. gas projects could triple emissions target by 2030, finds report

B.C. gas projects could triple emissions target by 2030, finds report

A recent report found B.C. will blow its oil and gas emissions target without a cap. But that path requires diverting a huge amount of electricity needed elsewhere, experts warn.
Part of B.C. under first heat warning of 2023

Part of B.C. under first heat warning of 2023

The hot plume of air is set to persist over B.C.'s North Coast for the next four days, warns Environment Canada. Elsewhere in the province, temperatures remain elevated raising flood risks.

Western Canada faces 'extreme' heat wave, with soaring temperatures raising fire risk

A heat wave that's expected to push daytime temperatures 10 to 15 degrees above seasonal norms is raising the wildfire risk in Alberta and British Columbia, where crews are already battling early-season blazes.
B.C.’s Elephant Hill wildfire results in losses of $1B per year: Indigenous report

B.C.’s Elephant Hill wildfire results in losses of $1B per year: Indigenous report

VANCOUVER — An Indigenous-led report into a massive wildfire nearly six years ago that destroyed more than 100 homes and scorched a vast swath of British Columbia's Interior says the blaze resulted in up to $1 billion per year in ongoing nature and e
Research finds some Pacific salmon migration out of sync with food supply

Research finds some Pacific salmon migration out of sync with food supply

'The coastal ocean is changing in one way and Pacific salmon are changing in a myriad of other ways and those ways don't always align,' says researcher
Canada still not counting emissions from logging sector, says report

Canada still not counting emissions from logging sector, says report

Canada gives its logging industry credit for the carbon absorbed by trees planted after a wildfire, and in so doing, erases carbon pollution from one of its largest emitting sectors, the report says
Ottawa's IAA pause button slows environmental reviews: report

Ottawa's IAA pause button slows environmental reviews: report

'Progress is slow' in Impact Assessment Act process, says Canadian West Foundation
Vancouver's Metaspectral gets grant for plastic recycling tech

Vancouver's Metaspectral gets grant for plastic recycling tech

Company using hyperspectral imaging to distinguish different plastics
Head of Alberta Energy Regulator declines to say when province told of oilsands leak

Head of Alberta Energy Regulator declines to say when province told of oilsands leak

Committee looking into why governments and area First Nations weren't kept updated on seepage from a tailings pond at Imperial Oil's Kearl oilsands mine
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