Saturday May 25, 2013




Environment


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Calif. bill sought to require product makers to reduce plastic trash polluting the ocean

SAN FRANCISCO - A California bill that would have required manufacturers to figure out how to keep the most common plastic junk out of state waterways died in the state Assembly without a vote Friday....

posted: May 24,2013





Environment

Coast guard will lower subsea bags to seal leaking shipwreck off Newfoundland

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The coast guard says it will lower weighted bulk bags to seal off an oil leak from a shipwreck off Newfoundland's east coast....


Environmental services company Tervita opens Saskatoon office

SASKATOON - A North American environmental and energy services company has opened an office in Saskatoon....


Sunk? No reports of drifting ghost ship Lyubov Orlova in more than two months

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Four months after an empty Russian cruise ship snapped a tow line and drifted into the North Atlantic off Newfoundland her trail has gone cold....


Cleanup of the Buchans mine in Newfoundland moving into its final phase

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Newfoundland and Labrador government will issue tenders later this month to begin the final phase of cleaning up a former mine site in Buchans....


Wildfire west of Edmonton forces 200 people from homes, another 200 on alert

LINDALE, Alta. - About 200 people were ordered out of their homes in a rural area west of Edmonton on Wednesday as a wildfire fanned by heavy winds burned out of control....


Heavy rain, run-off-swollen waterways could mean southern Interior floods

VANCOUVER - Homeowners in low lying areas over a wide section of B.C.'s southern and southeastern Interior are being urged to brace for flooding....









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