More than two dozen Albertan communities are getting new and replacement flood mapping to support emergency response and long-term planning in the province. The federal…
British Columbia’s Capital Regional District (CRD) has received $460,000 in federal and provincial grant funding through the National Disaster Mitigation Program (NDMP) for the decommissioning…
A study conducted by Professor Ashish Sharma at Australia’s University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney explains that drying soils are at the root…
The Government of Saskatchewan has designed a program to improve the petroleum industry’s market position by committing resources to secondary recovery of oil reservoirs using…
A new report concludes that there were few surprises regarding how the plans used to regulate the outflows from Lake Superior and Lake Ontario performed…
Yesterday, excavation commenced on a new river valley as part of the Port Lands Flood Protection project on Toronto’s waterfront. The project was designed to…
The Manitoba government has called on the federal government to do its part to ensure the timely completion of the Lake Manitoba and Lake St.…
New Brunswick will hire an independent consultant to conduct a review of the response to the historic 2018 spring flood. The report will be made…
The City of Regina has released its proposed Utility Fund 2019 Operating Budget and 2019–2023 Capital Plan, which recommended a 3 per cent rate increase,…
On Friday, more than $16.5 million in federal and provincial funding was announced to support work on 32 projects under the National Disaster Mitigation Program (NDMP). Joyce…
“If I had an ultimate vision… it would be that there would never be a flood ever again in any city in the world.” Dr.…
A First Nation, municipality, and environmental non-profit have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaboratively purchase, restore, and manage a key property in the…
Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, has announced close to $1 million in federal funding to Newfoundland and Labrador under the National…
The Ontario government continues to allow raw sewage to overflow into Ontario lakes and rivers at an alarming rate, says a new report by Dianne…
Canada is soliciting proposals from independent experts to establish an arm’s-length, policy-oriented organization on clean growth and climate change. Announced by the Minister of Environment…
Colwood, B.C. has been selected along with seven other communities to participate in an Island-wide collaborative project to help communities understand how a changing climate…
Installation proceeds on a $95-million upgrade of Canada’s weather-forecasting infrastructure, with the completion of a new radar system in Blainville, Quebec. Improved prediction of weather-related…
The IPCC report doesn’t reveal anything we didn’t already expect if we failed to meet global carbon dioxide reductions targets. A fair reading of the…
With the release of the latest special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday, scientists’ warnings about the impacts of unmitigated…
Vancouver-based Carl Data Solutions Inc. has announced the official launch of a new application for the wastewater management industry. Infinitii I&I uses machine learning to provide…
On October 10th, 2016, many homeowners in Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) were impacted by a historic storm that dropped over 225 millimetres of rain.…
Introduced on September 25th, Amendments to the Municipal Government Act and the Halifax Regional Charter under Bill 58 will require Nova Scotia municipalities to plan…
Yesterday, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, Dianne Saxe, released a report on climate action in Ontario, which provides evidence of the impacts a warming climate…
Stormwater drainage systems are our first line of defence against pluvial flooding. In recent years, many Canadian studies have pointed to the abysmal state of…