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Feb 22, 2025 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Drew Anderson |Sarah Cox
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. In mid-February, B.C.’s northeast was shaken by a series of earthquakes that both the province’s energy regulator and Natural Resources Canada say were linked to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas.
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Drew Anderson |Sarah Cox
Rancher Matt Hedges was trying to catch a few hours of sleep during calving season in mid February when an earthquake rattled his home on Dead Horse Creek Ranch in northeast British Columbia. “The whole house just started to shake, the pictures, windows, the mirrors and everything,” he says.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Michelle Cyca |Sarah Cox
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. Imperial Metals, the company that owns the Mount Polley mine in B.C.’s Interior, has been charged on 15 counts under the federal Fisheries Act.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Sarah Cox |Carl Meyer
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. A trio of Liberal, New Democrat and Bloc Québécois MPs put partisan politics aside in order to sharpen the teeth of Canada’s anti-greenwashing law, and the oilpatch is feeling the bite.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Sarah Cox
Start adding your content here After flooding Treaty 8 territory to build the Site C project, BC Hydro says it plans to give the $16-billion dam and its newly created reservoir Indigenous language names.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Eva Holland |Brittany Hopkins |Zoë Yunker |Fatima Syed |Sarah Cox
Last Thursday, reporter Matt Simmons spotted a series of social media posts that caught his attention. Indigenous leaders and community members were gathering on a remote road in northwest B.C., with some important legal paperwork — and pocket lighters. Matt, who lives in Smithers, B.C., grabbed his camera gear and drove for two hours.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Sarah Cox
On a warm and calm Sunday, Ken and Arlene Boon stood on the banks of the Peace River in northeast B.C. and watched the water rise — an event they had dreaded for more than a decade. It lapped near their former farm fields and a lodge where a beaver family was busy storing twigs, bark and leaves to eat over the winter.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Sarah Cox |Aaron Hemens
After spending the morning beneath the blistering sun down by the banks of nx̌ʷntk’ʷitkʷ (the Columbia River), cewel’na Leon Louis enjoys a moment under the shade of a nearby park gazebo in snɬuxwqnm (Castlegar). Just a few moments prior, Leon and dozens of other syilx Okanagan Nation members, with representatives from the Ktunaxa Nation, were joined by hundreds of students from local schools for a ceremonial release of ntyitix (salmon) fry into the river.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Sarah Cox |Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood |Shannon Waters |Emma McIntosh |Julia-Simone Rutgers
It had all happened very suddenly. It only took a few days for gas stations to run dry. The province warned everyone not to panic as they raced to secure fuel via truck and rail. On a Sunday in March, Winnipeggers found out our main gasoline, diesel and jet fuel pipeline had been shut down — and would stay that way for months. The good news? Nothing had spilled.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Sarah Cox |Derek Nighbor |Kevin Mason |Linda Coady
Twenty-one years after the spotted owl was listed as endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act, the federal government released a proposed recovery strategy identifying critical habitat for the old-growth forest dependent owl. The strategy reinstates about 200,000 hectares of the owl’s critical habitat in southwest B.C. that was quietly erased from maps in a draft recovery strategy last year.
