Wonder no more what is the carbon footprint of a shrimp cocktail -- for every 551 grams of aquaculture shrimp produced, a ton of carbon is released into the atmosphere. Read more…

The spokesperson of a citizens' group called Stop the Spray is concerned the Auditor General's recommendation for more intensive silviculture will lead to more herbicide spraying across the province. Read more…

The British Columbia government has failed to sufficiently replant the forests it manages and needs to develop a plan, Auditor General John Doyle said in a report today. Read more…

TERRACE, B.C. - One of the largest cities in northwestern British Columbia has officially joined the opposition to the Enbridge Inc., (TSX:ENB) Northern Gateway project. Read more…

Alberta's oil sands are expanding so fast that such pipeline proposals as Enbridge's Northern Gateway and TransCanada's Keystone XL are just the beginning, says Alberta finance minister Ron Liepert. Read more…

Schools, hospitals and other public bodies spent $18.2 million in 2010 on carbon offsets that the British Columbia government required them to buy. A detailed list of those purchases is now available. Read more…

A federal appeal court ruled yesterday that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans failed in its legal responsibility to protect habitat for orcas, the sleek, black and white killer whales that swim off the coast of B.C. Read more…

Green groups opposed to hydraulic fracturing are merely trying to raise money for "their reign of environmental terror" says Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Read more…

Three environmental groups are calling on British Columbia Premier Christy Clark to accelerate protection of the Great Bear Rainforest on the province's northwest coast. Read more…

The union representing workers at BC Hydro today publicly approved of Premier Christy Clark's downgrading of how much power generation capacity is needed to meet "self-sufficiency" for B.C., saying the old framework was "a significant factor in Hydro's current financial problems." But COPE Local 378 wants the B.C. government to go further by cancelling a number of proposed private run-of-river power generation projects. Read more…

The British Columbia government is likely eyeing precious agricultural land in the Lower Mainland for one of two proposed foreign trade zones, said independent Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington. Read more…

EDMONTON -- A long-awaited new plan from the federal and Alberta governments on how to gauge the environmental effects of the oilsands will watch for more contaminants, in more places, more often. But monitoring will be run — at least at first — by bureaucrats instead of an independent agency. Read more…

Alberta and the federal government are expected to reveal some of the details of their long-awaited plan to track the environmental impact of oilsands development later today. The plan is considered crucial to answering critics who charge that the multibillion-dollar industry is being allowed to charge ahead far in advance of government's ability to regulate it. Read more…

Peaceful protesters stood in front of logging machinery last week on a public road, government officials issued a flurry of legal paper including a development notice, a trespass notice, an enforcement order and now a court order.

The enforcement order, which the group is appealing as an infringement of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, even banned protestors from occupying or using "any other public lands in the Province of Alberta unless otherwise authorized to so." Read more…

Former Alberta premier Ed Stelmach has been giving tips to the Ukrainian government on how to sell controversial shale gas development to a skeptical public, according to a story in the English-language Kyiv Post. Read more…

Tough talk from Ottawa about radical environmentalists and foreign-funded adversaries seems to be actually strengthening support for those groups under attack. Read more…

The fight over TransCanada's Keystone XL is far from over, argues a Nebraska State Senator who helped oppose it, even though President Barack Obama rejected the pipeline earlier this month. Read more…

A former employee of an environmental group critical of a proposed oilsands pipeline says the Prime Minister's Office threatened a funding agency if it didn't pull its support for the group. A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper denies the allegations. Read more…

A study by an environmental group suggests the federal government may be underestimating greenhouse gas emissions from hydro developments by a factor of 20. Read more…

Green groups are celebrating today the Obama Administration's decision to reject TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. Read more…