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Entries for February 2018
Urgent: Canada needs better environmental laws
Views: 2238
(February 07, 2018)
Canada needs stronger environmental laws that help restore science and knowledge – and public input -- to our decision making processes around landscape altering projects such as roads, mines and pipelines.The good news is that the federal government has been pursuing a plan to reform, among other things, the Environmental Assessment Act (EA). WCS Canada has been very active in helping to frame what a renewed act should include, including a strong commitment for putting science front...
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Wood Buffalo Park: A World Heritage Site in danger
Views: 2900
(February 07, 2018)
Wood Buffalo National Park, which straddles the Alberta-NWT border, is an area that can only be described with superlatives. To begin with, it is huge – 45,000 square kilometres, an area bigger than the Netherlands. It contains one of the world’s largest inland freshwater deltas (the Peace River Delta) and protects the world’s only breeding ground for whooping cranes as well as the largest wild herd of bison on the planet.But it is also troubled. Tar sands developme...
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Proposed changes to the Fisheries Act restore lost protections and add modern safeguards
Views: 2015
(February 06, 2018)
The Fisheries Act is Canada’s oldest piece of environmental legislation, and on February 06, 2018 the federal government proposed changes that will modernize the act, and restore protections for fish habitat that were removed under the previous government. Specifically, the renewed act will restore protection for all fish, rather than just those that are part of a fishery, along with restoring protection for fish habitat. Further, it makes it explicit that scientific information should be ...
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