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Some environmental safeguards built into British Columbia mine approvals are being gradually whittled away without enough public or scientific oversight, says new university research.

"Environment Canada got pushback," said Bill Donahue, an environmental scientific consultant and former head of monitoring for the Alberta government. "It dramatically reduced the proposed standards in terms of their stringency."

In its 680-page report released Thursday, the joint federal-provincial panel questioned the ability of Benga Mining, owned by Riversdale Resources, to control the release of selenium from its proposed Grassy Mountain mine. 

Alberta's environment minister said on Thursday, March 18, 2021, there's no plan to change water allocations in the province's arid southwest.

The federal government has announced more than $50 million for research into marine and freshwater ecosystems across Canada.

The federal government will join an environmental assessment of a major expansion to a proposed southern British Columbia coal mine.

The federal environment minister is backtracking on a previous decision to keep Ottawa out of the approval process for a major coal mine expansion in Alberta.

Groups that have voiced concerns about a Nova Scotia pulp mill's plan to pump millions of litres of treated wastewater into the Northumberland Strait are to issue a response to that plan today, November 19, 2019.

Federal fisheries experts are painting a devastating picture of the challenges facing Pacific salmon and point to climate change as the main culprit.

People are swimming and fishing in Quesnel Lake five years after the largest environmental mining disaster in Canadian history, but residents of Likely, B.C., are still struggling with unresolved emotions about what happened and who will be held accountable for the dam collapse at the Mount Polley mine.

The federal government is stepping in to regulate a company's controversial plan to use water from one of Nova Scotia's major rivers to create huge underground caverns to store natural gas, but a Mi'kmaq leader says Ottawa's move doesn't go far enough.

A new fisheries bill requires the minister to take “traditional knowledge of the Indigenous peoples of Canada” into account if it has been provided.

For nearly 50 years the flow of New Brunswick's Petitcodiac River has been choked by a causeway — blocking a fish habitat and stifling the famous tidal bore. That's about to change.