The federal government is biased against listing commercially valuable fish as species at risk and needing protection, environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco said in a new audit published on Tuesday, October 4, 2022.
Environmentalists are calling on Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to halt pipeline construction in Hope, B.C., after dead salmon were found at Trans Mountain’s worksite on the Coquihalla River last weekend.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has been considering an “emergency” warning from scientists about an endangered species for more than a year in a case that could have serious implications for the proposed construction of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project.