Environment

Europe's space agency is defending plans to launch two satellites that would drop a rocket stage likely to contain highly toxic fuel in some of the most ecologically sensitive waters of the Canadian Arctic.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The company that runs the Hibernia platform off Newfoundland has pleaded guilty after it continued to operate despite a leak in 2013 that spilled about 6,000 litres of crude oil into the North Atlantic.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's famous Miramichi River was once the largest salmon-producing river in North America, drawing the famous and the powerful keen to fly fish there.

CAYO SANTIAGO, Puerto Rico — As thousands of troops and government workers struggle to restore normal life to Puerto Rico, a small group of scientists is racing to save more than 1,000 monkeys whose brains may contain clues to some of the most import

BOSTON — The movements of great white sharks in the Pacific and Indian oceans have long been the subject of academic study, but new research is just starting to shed light on the behaviour of their Atlantic Ocean counterparts.

VANCOUVER — A lawyer representing British Columbia in its fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says the federal cabinet's approval of the project is "lopsided" because it put Alberta's economic needs ahead of B.C.

ST. ANDREWS, N.B.

CALGARY — Teck Resources Ltd. says it will pay $1.425 million after pleading guilty in a B.C. Provincial Court Thursday to three counts of violating the Fisheries Act.

CALGARY — The former U.S. secretary of energy in the Obama administration says there are no easy answers when it comes to winning public support for critical energy infrastructure projects.

TORONTO — TransCanada Corp. has cancelled its $15.7-billion proposed Energy East pipeline, with CEO Russ Girling citing non-specific "changed circumstances" Thursday morning.