Both the oil sands industry and the Alberta government are reporting that the wastewater levels are so high that a natural event like what happened in BC recently with the heavy rains could cause an even worse environmental event in Alberta. Their solution? Release some of the waste water even…
If communities knew the effects of mining on caribou, they never would have supported the development. That comment came up from Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation during last week’s public hearing on Ekati’s proposed Point Lake project. The statement echoed many concerns from other Indigenous governments around the project’s effect…
High school students will now be able to get credits for learning to hunt. The territorial government says the hunter education course will “provide new hunters with the fundamental knowledge and basic skills needed for them to become respectful and safe hunters.” The course will be offered to Grade 10…
The world’s largest climate change meeting took place this week in Glasgow, and two NWT MLAs are there. Shane Thompson, minister of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR); Katrina Nokleby, MLA for Great Slave; and two government staff make up the territory’s delegation to COP26. Prior to leaving, Nokleby told CKLB…
The Young Leaders Summit on Northern Climate Change hosted by Ecology North took place from August 17-21. 17 participants from the Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories gathered in Dettah at B. Dene Adventures tour camp. The goal of the camp is to bring northern perspectives together in one place…
The Yellowknives Dene First Nation plays a big part in the Nechalacho Rare Earth Mine on July 21, 2021 as seen on the grounds of the mine as they cut the rope to the opening of one of the mine’s operating machines, the sensor-based ore sorter. The ore sorter is…
According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resource (ENR), two cabins were lost due to a wildfire near Fort Simpson over the weekend. One fire was reported at Little Doctor Lake on Saturday. Due to extreme fire conditions, crew were unable to access the fire until the following day…
Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for several communities across nearly all NWT regions. The communities affected are: Inuvik Fort McPherson Tsiigehtchic Norman Wells Tulita Fort Providence Kakisa Fort Simpson Jean Marie River Wrigley Fort Smith “Within the next day, temperatures will be reaching or exceeding 29 degrees Celsius…
Paulatuk is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the signing of Tuktut Nogait National Park. June 5 marks 25 years to the day that the park was signed into creation; it was physically established two years later. This year’s celebration also happens to coincide with Inuvialuit Day. Paulatuk residents are the…
Wildfire season in the NWT has had a slow start and will likely stay the same into June. So far in May, there has only been one fire in the NWT and it was a result of an abandoned campfire. No hectares were burned as a result. Richard Olsen, the…