Environment
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Ban on heavy fuel oil in Arctic full of holes: environmental group [UPDATED]
Andrew Dumbrille of the World Wildlife Fund says the ban as proposed would allow Arctic nations to exempt their own ships for another five years
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Fisheries Act offence results in $1.25M fine for Alberta-based fuel retailer
Drever Agencies pleaded guilty to a charge of depositing a deleterious substance into water frequented by fish
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Ottawa steps into ‘Ring of Fire’ debate with Doug Ford
The mineral-rich Ring of Fire was discovered in 2007, in a roadless region of Ontario inhabited almost exclusively by Indigenous peoples, and provincial governments have been trying to develop it ever since
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Ottawa supports heavy fuel ban for Arctic; northerners seek compensation [UPDATED]
Heavy fuel oil is considered a major spill risk because it’s so thick it persists in the environment for years
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$3M in federal funding to cut plastic food, construction waste
Three companies winners of the government’s plastics innovation challenge, part of a plan to ban many single-use plastics by 2021.
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BP lays out long term ambition to achieve net zero emissions
BP’s announcement was less of a detailed restructuring plan and more of a statement of intent
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Climate change could open new land to farming, but caution needed: study
The big winners would be Canada and Russia, which could each see more than four million square kilometres of boreal forest become arable land
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Feds invest $3.5M in green mining in Sudbury, Ont.
Receiving funds are a manufacturer of electric drive systems and an organization developing heat exchange technology
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Feds host conference on fishing tech to protect whales, prevent ocean plastics
A major contributor to plastic waste in oceans is lost and abandoned fishing gear, also known as ghost gear, which can entangle whales
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Factory farms provide abundant food, but environment suffers
U.S. environmental agencies often lack basic information about large farms such as where they’re located, how many animals they’re raising and how they deal with manure
