Environment

CHARLOTTETOWN — Analysis of six endangered North Atlantic right whales found dead since June in the Gulf of St. Lawrence suggests four were struck by ships and one died caught in fishing gear, says a report released Thursday.

REGINA — The premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan say Energy East would have been a nation-building project and that TransCanada's decision to cancel the pipeline is a bad day for the West.

WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg zoo says it had to euthanize a camel due to age-related conditions. The Assiniboine Park Zoo said in a Facebook post that Perry had been at the zoo since 1994.

TORONTO — Ontario's goal of one day sending zero waste to landfill looks good on paper, but won't be enough to completely eliminate garbage on its own, the province's environmental commissioner said Wednesday.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — British Columbia has spent more than $500 million battling dozens of wildfires during the 2017 forest fire season. Fire information officer Kevin Turcott says total suppression costs to date amount to almost $548 million.

OTTAWA — A federal watchdog has dismissed a complaint from a civil liberties group alleging Canada's spy agency overstepped the law while monitoring environmental activists.

CRANBROOK, B.C. — An official with British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says a grizzly bear that attacked a hunter in southeastern B.C. was defending her cub and her food. Insp.

OTTAWA — The federal government is nowhere near ready for the massive storms and more frequent floods and fires that are expected to result from climate change, warns Canada's environment commissioner.

CALGARY — A second coal-mining company in four months is being hit with a seven-figure penalty for polluting incidents that impacted fish in tributaries of the Athabasca River east of Jasper National Park in Alberta.

MONTREAL — Canada is well-positioned to transition to a low-carbon economy as wind and solar projects will be the focus of energy investments over the next two decades, a national wind energy conference was told.