Ontario’s AI data centre plan, explained | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Fatima Syed1d ago
This story is part of a series called Shockwave: Rising energy demand and the future of the Great Lakes.
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95%An Elder’s fight to protect Goldstream Park in B.C. | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Julie Chadwick2d ago
The sound of cars passing is a constant hum, so constant it’s almost meditative. Every so often one bleats out a honk of support.
Ontario’s hunt reopens for once-threatened bird | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Leah Borts-Kuperman2d ago
Starting next month, Ontario hunters will have a shot at sandhill cranes — for the first time in a century.
BC Hydro just bought a gas power plant | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Shannon Waters3d ago
Summary On Aug. 6, with much of southern B.C. blanketed in wildfire smoke, Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Adrian Dix kicked off a Campbell River press conference by thanking wildfire...
I spent years fighting wildfires. Now, I have PTSD | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Matthew Brackenreed3d ago
Editor’s note: After The Narwhal published a piece about Alberta wildland firefighters forming a peer-support network, we received an email from Matthew Brackenreed.
Alberta's orphan well costs reach new record | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Sharon J. Riley4d ago
The price tag to clean up orphan oil and gas wells in Alberta increased by nearly 50 per cent since last year, bringing the estimated total to $1.66 billion, according to the latest annual report...
What if Canadian oil giants were taxed more on excess profits from the Iran war? | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Carl Meyer4d ago
Canada’s large oil companies are raking in record profits during an energy crisis. We’ve been here before — but unlike last time, Ottawa isn’t prodding the industry to use more of the money to...
The ‘new reality’ of B.C. wildfires is anything but ‘normal’ | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Francesca Fionda7d ago
The wildfire that tipped B.C. into a state of emergency this August was described as “a bomb going off” to Premier David Eby by a fire official.
Heat waves cost some Toronto residents more | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Rajpreet Sahota8d ago
Beena Ruparelia does not need to check a thermometer to know when heat has settled into her northwest Toronto home. She can see it on her skin.
Alberta landowners fight fracking’s water use | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Drew Anderson and Amber Bracken9d ago
Assar Grinde is the kind of man whose calm is infectious, even as he rattles off an encyclopedic knowledge of facts about drought, water and the impacts of fracking on the region he calls home.