COVID-19 puts environmental projects in N.W.T. on hold
A number of environmental projects that monitor rivers across the north have been put on…
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Supreme Court sides with Ontario against previous owners of abandoned Dryden mercury disposal site
The court sided with Ontario against Resolute FP Inc. and Weyerhaeuser Company Limited, previous owners of the site.
Inuit ask premier to halt imminent flooding of Muskrat Falls
Inuit leadership in Labrador is calling on the province to halt the flooding of the…
Canada looking for input from Yukon communities on massive environment clean up
Community consultations are ongoing this week in the Yukon as Canada gets input on how best to clean up one of the country’s largest environmental disasters. It’s been 20 years since the former owners abandoned the Faro zinc-lead mine site after filing for bankruptcy.
Iqaluit gets millions to clean up a decades old American mess
For decades the American Air Force operated on the Frobisher air base now known as Iqaluit.
Oversight board tells Ottawa to apologize, and compensate Dene for Giant mine debacle
Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs APTN National News An oversight body made up of government, and First Nation…
Territory now conducting its own testing of lakes around Yellowknife for arsenic
The department of Health in the Northwest Territories is now conducting it’s own arsenic testing of lakes around Yellowknife.
Grassy Narrows First Nation members demand relief after decades of contamination
New report finds Grassy Narrows’ river systems highly contaminated with mercury.