After a relatively mild fall across the Northwest Territories, Environment Canada’s most recognizable forecaster is calling for our winter to be slightly warmer than normal. Senior Climatologist David Phillips acknowledges that autumn technically has three more weeks left in it but says it’ll likely finish milder than usual. Phillips also…
At a public hearing this week on its water license application, De Beers said constructing wetlands at its closed Snap Lake mine site is no longer required, nor feasible. The company initially proposed building wetlands in its water license application and final closure plan as a way to reduce nitrate…
Keeping track of all the data surrounding climate change is nearly impossible. About a year ago, the federal government launched what it hopes is a one-stop shop for Canadians to find climate change information. It’s called the Canadian Centre for Climate Services, and the northern office recently opened. Brian Sieben…
Members of K’asho Gotine along with Representatives from the Government of the Northwest Territories gathered in Fort Good Hope Tuesday to celebrate the establishment of the NWT’s newest protected area. Ts’udé Niliné Tuyeta is 10,050 square kilometres, roughly the same size as Banff national park in size. “Tuyeta, what makes…
The Vancouver-based company NorZinc has reported that the Mackenzie Valley Land & Water Board (MVLWB) has issued water licences and a land use permit for all season road access to the Prairie Creek Mine in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories. In a news release issued last Thursday, the…
Nine out of 10 northerners support protecting caribou calving grounds. That’s according to a poll commissioned by World Wildlife Fund-Canada. The results show 74 per cent of respondents “strongly support” banning oil, gas and mining in calving grounds, another 12 per cent said they “somewhat” support the protections. Respondents came…
An experienced paddler and well-known Fort Smith resident has described for CKLB exactly how a man was rescued from the trecherous Cassette Rapids on the Slave River on Thanksgiving Monday. Don Jaque was at the scene when the man was rescued Monday night. “He and a friend had been across…
A 26-year-old canoeist is fortunate to be alive after he fell into rapids on a frigid Slave River on Thanksgiving Monday, just south of Fort Smith on the Alberta side of the border with the Northwest Territories. RCMP say the man had put the canoe in the river Monday afternoon…
A Fort Simpson man who was shot last month by a wildlife officer with the territorial government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) says he and his community are still owed some answers. Dennis Nelner, 54, was hit in the thigh with a slug fired from a shotgun while…
RCMP now say that after an extensive aerial and water-based search since Monday, they are now in recovery mode for four commercial fishermen missing on Great Slave Lake since last weekend. In a news release issued Friday afternoon, Mounties stated that under the circumstances and with the low probability of…