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Geoscience BC Minerals and Energy – Research Updates Now Available
Vancouver, BC – January 20, 2025 – Research papers highlighting recent Geoscience BC minerals and energy research project and scholarship student activities are now available in the Summary of Activities 2024 volume. Summary of Activities 2024 (Geoscience BC Report 2025-01) contains ten technical papers from the Geoscience BC Scholarship Program 2024 recipients and an ongoing Geoscience […]
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Geoscience BC Publishes BC Mine Tailings and Waste Rock Compilation
Vancouver, BC – January 20, 2025 – A new Geoscience BC-driven collaboration has produced a digital compilation of Mine Tailings and Waste Rock for British Columbia. The Critical Minerals and Metals in BC Mine Tailings and Waste Rock research project has gathered existing publicly available data to produce a searchable digital product that uses Canada’s […]
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Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories Confirms Sahtú Communities Can Manage the Harvesting of Wildlife in Their Territory
January 20, 2025 The Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories (the “Court of Appeal”) recently released a decision that confirms that communities in the Sahtú are empowered by their modern treaty to manage the conservation and harvest of wildlife – including caribou – in their own local areas. OKT represented the Sahtú community of […]
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Milestone Reached: Regional Assessment in the Ring of Fire Area in northern Ontario Moves to Next Phase
January 20, 2025 Fifteen First Nation partners and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada have finalized the terms of reference for the conduct of the Regional Assessment in the Ring of Fire Area (traditionally referred to by local First Nations as Kawana ‘bi ‘kag), in northern Ontario. The terms set out how the co-led regional […]
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‘Milestone’ deal reached with 15 First Nations on Ring of Fire mining development – Ricochet Media
January 20 2025 Members of Land Defence Alliance insistent on including ‘free, prior, and informed consent’ in agreement Canada will announce today that it has reached a “milestone” agreement with 15 First Nations over the terms of reference for an environmental assessment process in the proposed Ring of Fire mining development. The agreement, finalized by […]
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Environmental Assessment Bulletin
January 17, 2025 The Honourable Lisa Dempster, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, has announced the following relative to Environmental Assessment – Part 10 – of the Environmental Protection Act. UNDERTAKING RELEASED: Veterans Memorial Bridge Quarry (Reg. 2336) Proponent: Nunatsiavut Construction Inc. The project has been released from environmental assessment subject to conditions as outlined […]
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Indigenous climate advocates say tailings spills study confirms what they already know – Alberta Native News
January 17, 2025 By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – A recently released scientific study on the Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) poor monitoring of tailings spills merely confirms what Indigenous people have long known to be true, says the executive director of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA). Sherwood Park-based geologist Kevin Timoney’s report, published […]
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The Alberta Energy Regulator lays nine charges against Imperial Oil Resources Limited for release at Kearl Oil Sands Processing Plant
CALGARY, AB, January 17, 2025 – The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has laid nine charges in relation to an industrial wastewater release at Imperial Oil Resources Limited’s Kearl Oil Sands Processing Plant. The charges are related to a berm overflow of industrial wastewater that occurred at the Kearl plant that was reported to the AER on […]
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Update on avian influenza in wild birds
January 16, 2025 The Nunatsiavut Government is working with the provincial Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture and Environment and Climate Change Canada to monitor for presence of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in wild birds. Wild birds, especially waterfowl, are natural carriers of influenza viruses. They are not always affected by the disease, […]
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Renewable Energy Executive Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin to Chair CEC’s Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC)
Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), — The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to announce that Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin, Chief Executive Officer of the Inuit-owned Nukik Corporation in Nunavut, Canada, has been named the new Chair of the CEC’s Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) for 2025. Anne-Raphaëlle Audouin is a seasoned executive with over 15 years of proven leadership in […]
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