Tag Archives: Environment
Volunteers needed for tree plant day at Spruce Haven Recreation Area
A call for volunteers is being made by George Home Hardware ahead of tree plant day in Melfort.The Tree Canada initiative to make communities more green will see 135 trees and shrubs planted in the Sp...
Sep 10, 2019 Community members came together in 2018 to plant trees at the Spruce Haven Recreation Area and more will be planted again this year. (Angie Rolheiser/northeastNOW Staff)
Cottage owners urged to take think Fire Smart as season comes to a close
The summer months are now behind us.With the changing of the season many people are now getting ready to close up their cottages and seasonal properties for the year.Prince Albert National Park staff ...
Sep 09, 2019 Prince Albert National Park wants to remind cottage owners to take some steps to protect their properties as they close up their cottages. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
‘Event of the summer’ says researcher on Meadow Lake Provincial Park tornadoes
For David Sills, the weather system that tore through part of Meadow Lake Provincial Park over the Canada Day long weekend was the event of the summer for tornadoes.The executive director with the Nor...
Aug 27, 2019 Drone imagery from the Northern Tornadoes Project shows uprooted and downed trees after a storm tore through Meadow Lake Provincial Park on June 29. (supplied/Northern Tornadoes Project)
P.A. area man pleads not guilty to illegal hunting charge
A 59-year-old man from the Prince Albert area will have the opportunity to share his side of a hunting story, when he appears for trial in December.Doug Risling has pleaded not guilty to a charge of b...
Aug 27, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Brazil, Bolivia assessing needs after Canada offers $15M aid for Amazon fires
OTTAWA - A Canadian official says Brazil and other Amazon-basin countries are considering Canada's offer of $15 million and equipment to help fight the fires destroying the South American rainforest. ...
Aug 27, 2019
R.M. of Birch Hills ponders large waste landfill proposal
The R.M. of Birch Hills could decide as early as next month whether or not to approve a proposed large waste landfill site in pastureland south of the Branspeth turn off on Highway 3. Many local resid...
Aug 26, 2019 With ever-increasing pressures on landfill sites like the one at Prince Albert, the R.M. of Birch Hills is mulling a proposal for a large regional non-hazardous landfill cell south of Highway 3. (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Is federal carbon tax killing jobs? Experts say answer isn’t ‘black and white’
farmREGINA - The Saskatchewan government says the federal carbon tax is killing jobs, but experts and even the province's trade minister say it's not that easy to calculate.The government reports that...
Aug 25, 2019 Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe (file photo/CP)
Feds asked to step up support to address deer killing disease
The federal government has been called upon to take a serious look at a wildlife disease, responsible for killing 300 deer last year in Saskatchewan.In a letter sent to the Prime Minister's office as ...
Aug 20, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Pipeline rupture sends 40,000 litres of oil into Alberta creek
DRAYTON VALLEY, Alta. - The Alberta Energy Regulator says a pipeline has spilled 40,000 litres of crude oil into a creek.The regulator says on its website that the incident happened Thursday on a Bont...
Aug 19, 2019 (File Photo/ The Canadian Press)
Magnitude 4.1 earthquake strikes Esterhazy area
It wasn't the end to the peaceful family evening Grant Moore was expecting.His house shook and chairs rocked as an earthquake hit the Esterhazy area Thursday night.It was confirmed by the United State...
Aug 16, 2019 A map from the U.S. Geological Survey shows the area where an earthquake was recorded near Esterhazy on Aug. 15, 2019. (Submitted photo/ CJME News)