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'All options still on the table' for limiting plastics production: Guilbeault

'All options still on the table' for limiting plastics production: Guilbeault

OTTAWA — All options to eliminate plastic waste are still on the table in negotiations for a global plastic treaty, including putting legislated caps on how much plastic the world produces in the first place, Canada's environment minister said Tuesda
Cap on plastic production may be too complicated for global treaty: Guilbeault

Cap on plastic production may be too complicated for global treaty: Guilbeault

OTTAWA — A global treaty to end plastic waste can be ambitious and successful without firm caps on plastic production, which are hard to design and harder to get agreement on, Canada's environment minister said Friday.
Billions of bottles: Canadian statistics paint grim picture of plastic litter problem

Billions of bottles: Canadian statistics paint grim picture of plastic litter problem

OTTAWA — New Canadian data suggest that over a nine-year period between 2012 and 2020, the equivalent of more than 15 billion plastic bottles and as many as 14 billion plastic grocery bags became litter in Canada's environment.
Talks under way in Ottawa on curbing global plastics pollution

Talks under way in Ottawa on curbing global plastics pollution

Delegates from 174 countries are in Ottawa this week for the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution.
B.C.’s net-zero ambitions adding to energy security anxiety

B.C.’s net-zero ambitions adding to energy security anxiety

British Columbians are currently more worried about affordability than the environment
Failure to clean up B.C. oil wells nets company $45K fine

Failure to clean up B.C. oil wells nets company $45K fine

B.C. Green MLA says fines have become the 'cost of doing business' and do little to deter the expansion of abandoned oil and gas wells.
Can Canada have an effective climate action policy without a carbon tax?

Can Canada have an effective climate action policy without a carbon tax?

Carbon taxes may be unsustainable tools as political and price realities begin to sink in — and they aren’t the only policy option at politicians’ disposal.
Cap on plastic production remains contentious as Ottawa set to host treaty talks

Cap on plastic production remains contentious as Ottawa set to host treaty talks

OTTAWA — Negotiators from 176 countries will gather in downtown Ottawa this week for the fourth round of talks to create a global treaty to eliminate plastic waste in less than 20 years.
'No immediate risk' from 2.5-million-litre effluent spill from B.C. fibreboard plant

'No immediate risk' from 2.5-million-litre effluent spill from B.C. fibreboard plant

QUESNEL, B.C. — British Columbia's Environment Ministry says a 2.5-million-litre effluent spill from a fibreboard factory in Quesnel doesn't pose any immediate risk to public safety.
B.C. snowpack lowest in 50 years

B.C. snowpack lowest in 50 years

The snowpack is averaging 63 per cent of normal across the province as of April 1 — the lowest average since 1970. The data comes as the Ottawa warns of a potentially devastating wildfire season.