Environment

OTTAWA — Canada's oilpatch could get a big head start on reducing emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas for a "near-zero" cost, says an academic study on the price of methane reduction.

MARKHAM, Ont. — A news helicopter and natural resources ministry staff are tracking a moose that has run across an airport field and down streets and through backyards in a community north of Toronto.

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. — Hammy the deer is no longer wearing the latest in antler adornments after conservation officers in Prince Rupert, B.C., caught up with the animal on Thursday.

TORONTO — An Ontario private member's bill that would require all coffee pods sold in the province to be compostable has passed a key hurdle.

Inuit from Canada and Greenland hope to convince at least four governments to let them manage and travel freely over an international stretch of Arctic ocean that's one of the most productive environments in the North.

VANCOUVER — A woman who found a black bear cub that was later killed by a conservation officer is accusing the British Columbia government of breaking its own law on the destruction of wild animals.

CALGARY — The Alberta Energy Regulator says a pipeline owned by Calgary-based Mount Bastion Oil & Gas Corp. has leaked about 560 barrels of an oil and water mixture at a northern Alberta wellsite.

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is warning all political parties to take off their partisan blinders or both the environment and Canada's energy industry will fail.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — An undercover sting by the B.C.'s conservation service has ended with a conviction and fine for a man charged with trafficking in bear parts.

CLEARWATER, B.C. — Police in Clearwater, B.C., shot and killed what appeared to be a starving cougar that they say had little fear of humans. RCMP Sgt.