The Giant Mine Remediation Project team is hoping the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board will approve its water license and land use permit for its final closure plan. The board is hosting a public hearing until Friday, January 24 to discuss the closure plan. The remediation team says the…
Northwest Territories taxpayers will initially pay for four firefighters who have headed to Australia to help with the country’s devastating wildfires. But the GNWT will eventually be reimbursed for their services. That’s according to Mike Gravel, director of forest management with the Government of the Northwest Territories Dept. of Environment…
The Sahtú Renewable Resources Board (SRRB) is holding a hearing or “Public Listening Session” in Colville Lake on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week to look at the most effective way to approach caribou harvesting and address conservation pressures on the caribou herds in the region. According to a news…
If the federal government approves the massive Teck Frontier oilsands project, “Our rights are being trampled,” says Smith’s Landing First Nation Chief Gerry Cheezie. He’s concerned the megaproject would negatively affect the waters that flow from the Peace river to the Slave, and ultimately up to the Mackenzie river and…
Four firefighting specialists from the Northwest Territories are to leave Thursday and Friday for Australia to help battle the devastating wildfires Down Under. The Government of the NWT is sending the four wildfire personnel as part of a Canadian contingent traveling to Australia to help with efforts to contain wildfires…
The Yukon Government has approved a licensed harvest on the Fortymile caribou herd. That follows a recommendation from the Yukon Fish and Wildlife Management Board. The season opened on New Year’s day and runs until March 31. According to a news release from the Yukon government, the herd has grown…
A former Fort Simpson resident is among dozens of Canadians who have gone to Australia to help battle that country’s devastating wildfires. Tanya Letcher is reportedly there but it’s not entirely clear which part of Australia she’s been posted to or exactly what her role is. According to her Linkedin…
Residents from across the Northwest Territories have signed an open letter calling on MP Michael McLeod to push for a Green New Deal in Parliament. Our Time Yellowknife drafted the letter, which describes a Green New Deal as “an ambitious plan to tackle the climate crisis at the scale that…
Officials from the Dene Nation are rolling up their sleeves and getting down to the fish business with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard to develop the Arctic Region According to a Dene Nation news release they’ve signed an agreement with DFO and the…
On Friday, Yellowknife students led the charge to call on MLAs to declare a climate emergency. Here’s what organizer Ella Kokelj had to say about the gathering; she also lists some specifics she’d like to see from the Government of the Northwest Territories. Kokelj said there has been “movement” on…