New Brunswick announced this week that the province’s moratorium on hydraulic fracturing will remain indefinitely. As a result of the findings from the Commission on…
RBC has released its 9th annual Water Attitudes Study, conducted by GlobeScan this spring, providing important information on the perspectives of Canadians pertaining to drinking water,…
More than 250 prominent university professors from across Canada, including legal scholars, political scientists, water scientists, and environmental scientists, released a statement of concern regarding…
The federal government’s plan to support the evacuees of the catastrophic 2011 flood in southern Manitoba is at risk of not achieving its objectives, a…
Ontario is investing $1.5 million this year in local efforts to help protect, restore, and enhance the Great Lakes. Now in its fourth year, the…
The Government of Yukon has announced plans to invest more than $1.5 million to expand Yukon’s water monitoring network in between now and 2017, subject…
Canada’s ability to monitor the coastal waters of British Columbia just got “smarter” now that a new program has been launched to install ocean observing…
The Government of British Columbia will take a series of immediate steps toward ensuring safe drinking water for approximately 200 residents near Spallumcheen, just north…
A new report calling on the government to make changes to the Fisheries Act is gaining support among a large number of Canadian scientists, First Nations groups,…
Canada’s Budget 2016 was released this week, and the federal government’s plan proposes $11.9 billion toward infrastructure over the next five years—starting right away. The budget also…
The treatment of municipal wastewaters in small northern communities across Canada can be challenging because of harsh climatic conditions, difficult logistical and operational circumstances, competing…
The movement to stop the development of a hydroelectric dam in northeastern British Columbia has hit a roadblock, as the Supreme Court of British Columbia…
The Government of New Brunswick has invited the public, stakeholders, and First Nations to provide input and to participate in public meetings to gather perspectives…
The Ontario government today announced six new recipients of the 2015 Community Environment Fund program that will fund watershed and restoration projects across the province. The…
Environmentalist David Suzuki and Grand Chief of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Stewart Phillip took to northeastern British Columbia to show support for a group…
Ontario’s drinking water remains among the best protected in the world, according to the 2014-15 Chief Drinking Water Inspector’s Annual Report. In the forward message…
The Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, announced this week that the Government of Canada will be an equal partner with the…
The Government of British Columbia has approved Mount Polley Mining Corporation’s application for a short-term permit to treat and then discharge water outside a secondary…
The end of a long and emotional legal battle to prevent extensive natural resource development in the Peel watershed has ended in favour of wilderness…
The Alberta government has announced a funding commitment for new flood protection measures along the Bow and Elbow Rivers. The measures are intended to protect…
Residents of the Regional District of Nanaimo can now use an online interactive place-based tool to learn about water supplies and use, as part of…
British Columbia Environment Minister Mary Polak and Northwest Territories Environment and Natural Resources Minister J. Michael Miltenberger signed an agreement today committing both governments to…
A new report released today seeks to aid provincial and federal governments in determining the best areas in which to advance studies related to hydraulic…
Source Protection Plans in the Thames and Sydenham region have been approved by the provincial government, as of September 18, 2015. The water protection plans…