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A large cranberry farm operation in Pitt Meadows, B.C., is under investigation after several thousand fish were found dead while the farm was preparing to install a pipe to pump water from a river.
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Someone dumping chemicals into a Port Coquitlam, B.C., storm drain may have killed thousands of Coho salmon fry in Hyde Creek, according to a local environmental group.Ted Wingrove, president of the Hyde Creek Watershed Society, says thousands of fish have suffocated and burned after being exposed to some sort of unidentified toxic chemical which entered […]

The destruction of three beaver dams is being blamed for a train derailment that caused more than 15,000 litres of fuel to spill into the Ottawa River on Wednesday. Due to the beaver dam breach, 200 metres of railway track were washed-out, which later caused two locomotives and six cars to derail the tracks. The […]

Some Burnaby residents awoke to the strong smell of oil fumes after about 200,000 litres of crude oil spilled from a storage tank on Burnaby Mountain on Wednesday night.
The leak at the Kinder Morgan tank farm just east of Vancouver was spotted at about 10 p.m. by a contractor, the company said. The oil was […]

An oil spill on the north side of Burnaby Mountain has been contained, according to Kinder Morgan. The company says most of the oil did not seep into nearby streams, but News1130’s Kim Seale has seen a slick in the Burrard Inlet.
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Officials from Alberta Environment are investigating after grease and oil from one of the Suncor sites north of Fort McMurray spilled into the Athabasca River late Monday.
The spill wasn’t from a tailings pond, which contains waste from bitumen processing. Instead, it came from a cooling water pond that contains treated water from machinery such as […]

  Stormwater outfalls along Calgary’s rivers are getting a bit of a retrofit.  Any of the outfalls with aprons are bing fitted with four (4) 2.5 cm eye bolts (2 near water level and 2 about 45 cm above them).  The bolts will allow anchor points to deploy absorbent or containment booms in the event of a […]

The Chronicle Herald reported that officials from the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans are warning lobster fishermen to maintain a one kilometre distance from the area where a dredging barge sank on November 22. The barge, known as the Shovel Master, was carrying 70,000 litres of diesel when it sank approximately 80 kilometres southeast […]

Further to Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report DIR08-170, on September 4, CBC reported that Ottawa will spend $100 million from three levels of government to upgrade the city’s sewage system and help prevent human waste from fouling the Ottawa River. Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien announced on September 3 that the City will put $35 million of the […]

CBC reported that on September 2, Environment Canada announced several millions more for Ottawa’s sewage system.  The government will put $3 million toward a $9-million upgrade to several sewage gates this fall.  The federal government will also commit a total of $33 million to a future $100-million project that would prevent raw sewage from being […]