British columbia News
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The impacts of the climate crisis on the food chain are already evident in British Columbia, Canada. With winter fast approaching, one family of starving grizzly bears are being fed farm-raised salmon by First Nation people.
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Calgary -
A Canadian law passed this summer bars oil tankers from carrying more than 12,500 metric tons along the northern B.C. coast. However, two Calgary-based companies, Melius Energy and BitCrude, have found a way around the law.
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Vancouver -
High log prices and dwindling timber supply are driving the crisis in British Columbia's forestry industry that has devastated communities and kneecapped the provincial economy, observers say. However, there is more to this story.
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The B.C. lumber industry has its plate full — grappling with tough market conditions, a diminished domestic timber supply, U.S. softwood import tariffs and what many perceive as a lack of support from the provincial government.
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Quesnel -
British Columbia's forest industry started out 2019 with several temporary closures of sawmills for between one and six weeks. Six months later, about 20 temporary (and a few permanent) closures are having a direct effect on employees and communities.
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Vancouver -
The City of Vancouver says nine illegal marijuana dispensaries must close down while they wait for the outcome of a legal challenge at the B.C. Court of Appeal.
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The Weather Network has released its summer forecast for the months of June, July, and August - and it's a mixed bag - with two opposing summer patterns.
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Warm and windy conditions have fanned the flames of a wildfire believed to be human-caused in British Columbia, Canada, near the community of Lejac, about five kilometers east of Fraser Lake.
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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney reached out to British Columbians frustrated by high gasoline prices at a news conference in Edmonton Wednesday to confirm Bill 12 has been enacted into law.
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Vancouver -
British Columbia's auditor general says the number of inactive oil and gas wells in the province has risen dramatically and warns the price tag for decommissioning them is $3 billion and rising.
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Vancouver -
B.C. First Nations and the provincial government have agreed to shut down 17 open-net fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago in what may be the biggest shake-up in the history of the controversial fish farm industry.
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A bill that would make it easier to kill sea lions that feast on imperiled salmon in the Pacific Northwest has cleared the U.S. Senate.
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While doing an aerial caribou count in east-central British Columbia in April, officials from Canada’s ministry of national resources, quite by accident, came across a massive cave never seen by humans before — possibly the largest in Canada.
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The six remaining members of the South Selkirk caribou herd remaining in the lower 48 states are being moved further north into British Columbia, Canada, a desperate measure to try to save the mountain caribou's most southerly herds,
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada confirms the findings of independent research that says sea lice on salmon farms are becoming resistant to SLICE, a pesticide used to kill sea lice.
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Vancouver -
For several years now, cannabis users in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, have been able to buy just about any kind of pot, along with accessories and all the cannabis-infused products they wanted. But that is all going to change on October 17.
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Vancouver -
Scientists and students from the University of Northern B.C. spent three years conducting a field study of the province's Ancient Forest/Chun T'oh Whudujut Provincial Park, the only inland rainforest in the world. They found over 2,400 plant species.
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Vancouver -
Shell Canada Ltd. has voluntarily given up it offshore exploration rights, clearing the way for the creation of Canada’s first protected marine area under the Canada Wildlife Act.
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When wildfires get as ferocious as the ones ravaging Western Canada right now, firefighters can't do much more than letting them run their course, says a risk management expert. But what if this is now the "new normal?
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Thick smoke from wildfires in the western United States and Canada have clogged the skies across western North America, blotting out mountains and city skylines from Oregon and Colorado to British Columbia and Alberta.
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Vancouver -
On Wednesday morning, he B.C. government declared a provincial state of emergency to support the province-wide response to the ongoing wildfire situation.
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There are nearly 600 fires burning across B.C. with the danger rating rated at ‘high’ or ‘extreme’ in virtually every part of the province. Of those fires, 47 are considered to be serious, and a potential threat to public safety.
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A new radio telescope in British Columbia, Canada is doing its job picking up mysterious signals from deep space known as "fast radio bursts" (FRBs).
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Anywhere from five to 22 million sockeye salmon are nearing the mouth of British Columbia's Fraser River, heading home to spawn. But the waters of the river are so warm right now there is a good chance the salmon will die.
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Kelowna -
Some 123 fires are burning across the province, of which 41 are in the Kamloops Fire Centre, which includes the Okanagan. There are also significant wildfires raging in central and southeast B.C. and in Ontario.
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The British Columbia government has filed a lawsuit and is prepared to ask for an injunction and damages against Alberta over that province’s recently passed fuel restriction law that would allow the province to shut off oil and gas shipments to B.C.
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Vancouver -
The craft cannabis industry in British Columbia is very concerned over the federal government's lack of progress in creating a promised "micro-cultivation" license for those in their industry and they are demanding action.
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While Ottawa was announcing it will backstop the $7.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Wednesday, May 16, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley was reiterating her threat to “turn off the taps” of oil and gas to B.C.
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Alberta has no intention of giving in to the opposition when it comes to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, as British Columbia residents are now finding out.
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Vancouver -
Low numbers of returning salmon have forced Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to announce a ban on recreational salmon fishing on the Skeena and Nass Rivers on the North Coast of British Columbia, effective immediately.
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Athabasca glacier and Mount Andromeda in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. The glacier has retreated 1,500 meters in the last century. Carlos Delgado
An aerial view of the Red Deer Creek wildfire near the B.C. / Alberta boundary. Govt. of British Columbia
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The steam-powered clock on the corner of Cambie and Water Street in Vancouver's Gastown displays the time on four faces and announces the quarter hours with a whistle chime that plays the "Westminster Quarters".
Coastal flooding is also an issue as the ocean levels rise. Province of BC
Scene from project video showing what the finished hydroelectric dam on the Peace River would look like. The Site C Clean Energy Project screen grab
LNG Canada, a joint venture company comprised of Shell Canada Energy (an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc – 50 per cent), and affiliates of PetroChina (20 per cent), Korea Gas Corporation (15 per cent), and Mitsubishi Corporation (15 per cent), is proposing to build an LNG export terminal in Kitimat. BC Oil and Gas Commission
Old forests in Klaskino Inlet, British Columbia Ingmar
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Sewell's Marina and the BC Ferry terminal at Horseshoe Bay Village in West Vancouver.
Clearwater Valley in Wells Gray Provincial Park. Uli Harder
The MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite captured this image of the Little Bobtail Lake fire in British Columbia.
(NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption: NASA/Goddard, Lynn Jenner) NASA/Goddard
Phaeocollybia piceae? 20090927.83 Canada, BC, Incomappleux Inland Rainforest in british Columbia. Jason Hollinger
Softwood lumber prices in British Columbia have seen a jump because of the wildfires. Art Anderson (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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The Butchards Gardens. The gardens provide dramatic floral displays in various settings and styles amid mature trees, shrubs and fountains, linked by a network of serene paths.
Screenshot of video showing a bench-clearing brawl at a Canadian lacrosse game YouTube screenshot
The number of wildfires in British Columbia, Canada have dropped to 169, from 177 earlier today. CTV News
:If the tanker ban become law, Eagle Spirit has an alternative plan that would make use of the Portland Canal to bing tankers to Hyder, Alaska for loading. Image shows docks at the head of Portland Canal at Stewart, BC... Murray Foubister
Pyrosomes are becoming a big problem off the coast of British Columbia. Nick Hobgood
Fraser River flooding in 2012. Province of BC
Hosts Kenny Shaw and Sue Finneron keep things moving at the 2013 Comox Valley Child Development Centre Telethon in Courtenay, B.C.
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