Environment Canada has issued some warnings for parts of Saskatchewan. Gull Lake, Leader, Swift Current, can expect some strong winds tonight. The wind warning is talking about strong wind gusts up to 90 kilometres an hour tomorrow morning. That warning also covers Val Marie, The Cypress Hills, Maple Creek and Shaunovan. The other red blobs […]
Premier Scott Moe is standing by his comments where he said that he ”doesn’t care that the province has the highest carbon emissions per capita.’ Moe clarified that he does care about the province being an environmental leader. However, he does not believe measuring the province’s carbon emissions per capita is fair. “Per capita emissions […]
The National Farmers Union has released a comprehensive view of greenhouse gas emissions from Canadian agriculture. NFU director of Climate Crisis Policy and Action, Darrin Qualman, says a detailed view of emissions is needed to form a foundation for on-farm actions to reduce emissions and for government actions to provide incentives for those actions. […]
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads into 2020 promising to chart a path to Canada’s most ambitious greenhouse-gas emissions target yet: getting to a point within 30 years where Canada is adding no emissions that will stay in the atmosphere. But one of the first things his government has to decide in the new year […]
The National Farmers Union has released a new report on tackling the farm crisis and the climate crisis. President Katie Ward says the report points to agriculture to provide an opportunity to become part of the solution in dealing with the climate crisis facing the globe. The report says incentives should be put in […]
EDMONTON — An Edmonton man says he defaced a mural of teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg because he wanted to take a stand peacefully. James Bagnall says he wrote “stop the lies” and “this is oil country” on the portrait of the 16-year-old girl against a bright-blue background. He says he wasn’t taking shots at […]
Despite below normal snowmelt runoff into the Qu’Appelle River and persistent drier than normal conditions across most of Southern Saskatchewan, most lakes on the Qu’Appelle River System are within their desirable summer operating ranges, due to additional spring management by Water Security Agency. The lakes actively monitored by WSA on this system include Buffalo Pound, […]
