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Scientists create a 'video game of the forest' to check the impact of climate change

The Petawawa Research Forest marks its 100-year anniversary this year. Canada’s oldest continuously-operating research forest holds clues on how climate change will affect forests in the century to come.

Race Against Climate Change

By Carl Meyer | News | October 4th 2018

Broken regulator can't resolve Trans Mountain 'merry-go-round'

The bottom line is that the NEB is probably Canada’s most broken, distrusted regulator and yet Justin Trudeau is entrusting this body to rush a 22 week redo of the Trans Mountain pipeline review, with the expectation that somehow, some way, the result is going to be different, writes Cameron Fenton.

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

By Cameron Fenton | Opinion, Energy, Politics | September 27th 2018

Shovel Lake wildfire, Nadleh Whut'en First Nation, Fort Fraser,

Forest fires, pests pose threat to forestry sector growth, federal report says

A new government report on the state of Canadian forests shows that the area burned last year by fires jumped nearly three-fold compared to the year before.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | September 27th 2018

Ottawa commits $30 million for new tidal power project in Bay of Fundy

Ottawa has announced a $29.8 million grant for a new project that aims to harness the immense power of the Bay of Fundy's tides.

By Michael Tutton | News, Politics | September 21st 2018

Canadian researchers want to build simulation tools to make buildings smarter and greener

While nearly all of the energy used in buildings is dedicated to basic services like indoor heating, cooling and lighting, researchers say building codes aren’t very good at taking into account how occupants actually use those services day to day.

By Carl Meyer | News, Energy, Politics | August 14th 2018

Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Department of Commerce, Washington, Balce Ceneta

Canada could get caught in cross-fire of U.S. uranium investigation

Canada could get caught in the crossfire after the U.S. Department of Commerce launched another national security investigation, this time by looking into uranium imports.

By Ross Marowits | News, US News, Politics | July 19th 2018

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Deliberate spill: study launched to test crude and bitumen impact on lake life

Researchers were in northwestern Ontario on the weekend spilling diluted oilsands bitumen and crude oil into a lake to study how the ecosystem, from microbes to fish, responds.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | June 18th 2018

Experimental Lakes Area, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Kenora, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Scientists are planning an oily bitumen spill in this Ontario lake

Researchers in northwestern Ontario are counting down the days until they can hop in a boat with a bucket of diluted bitumen, and pour it into a freshwater lake.

By Elizabeth McSheffrey | News | May 22nd 2018

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Jim Carr wants to keep promise to the Tsleil-Waututh Nation

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says he plans to keep a promise he made to the chief of a First Nation on the front lines of a major west coast pipeline terminal. It was a mutual promise to protect her nation's territory, he said.

Trans Mountain

By Mike De Souza | News, Energy, Politics | April 19th 2018

High-ranking federal officials sped up Trans Mountain review after phone call from Kinder Morgan's Ian Anderson

High-ranking bureaucrats in the federal government discussed speeding up the review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion project in 2016 following a phone call from the company’s chief executive, Ian Anderson, that left officials warning that the pipeline might be “abandoned,” reveal newly-released internal documents.

Trans Mountain

By Mike De Souza | News, Energy, Politics | April 18th 2018

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