Environment

SISTERS, Ore. — Lightning started a forest fire one August afternoon near this Oregon tourist town, and it was spreading fast. Residents in outlying areas evacuated as flames marched toward their homes. Just a few months earlier, the U.S.

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move.

OTTAWA — Any hope the Liberals had of a quiet Thanksgiving break melted away quickly this week, even with MPs back in their ridings and all the party leaders politicking in distant places.

KEY LAKE, Sask. — The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission says there was a small propane explosion in the acid plant sulphur furnace at Cameco's Key Lake mill earlier this week.

VICTORIA — British Columbia has introduced pollution prevention regulations to hold transport companies moving petroleum products across the province responsible for the costs of responding to and cleaning up spills.

VANCOUVER — Ottawa's decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline was made on a broad base of evidence, a lawyer for Alberta's attorney general has told the Federal Court of Appeal.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the federal government is being unfair in the way it assesses pipeline projects, but her government will not go to court for now to try to make it right.

OTTAWA — Almost two years ago, the first assignment given to Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr was to produce a national energy strategy.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — An early dump of snow has turned British Columbia's Coquihalla Highway into a treacherous trek, especially for drivers unprepared for the weather.

VICTORIA — The City of Victoria is about to become the third Vancouver Island municipality to send what it calls a climate accountability letter to 20 of the world's largest fossil fuel companies.