| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, and the Member of Parliament for West Vancouver–Sunshine Coast–Sea to Sky Country, Patrick Weiler, announced approximately $4 million to support 53 new projects under the EcoAction Community Funding Program.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | media advisories
Media representatives are advised that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will make an announcement to help protect and conserve freshwater. He will be joined by the member of Parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, Patrick Weiler, and a British Columbia Conservation Foundation representative.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Today, the Minister of International Development, the Honourable Karina Gould, on behalf of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced $5.1 million in funding to support 46 new projects to protect and restore the Great Lakes through the Great Lakes Protection Initiative in 2020–21.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced that the Government of Canada has finalized national regulations that will reduce pollution from petroleum and petrochemical facilities across the country, including in Sarnia, Mississauga, Montréal, Burnaby, Prince George, Saint John, and many communities in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | statements
Canada has long opposed development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge due to the potential impact to the Porcupine caribou herd and to Indigenous Peoples. Porcupine caribou and their calving grounds are invaluable to the culture and subsistence of the Gwich’in and Inuvialuit peoples.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | media advisories
Media representatives are advised that the Minister of International Development and Member of Parliament for Burlington, the Honourable Karina Gould, on behalf of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will make an announcement in support of the Great Lakes.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Environment and Climate Change Canada 2019 April Fool's joke.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced a $1.43 million contribution for the creation of an Indigenous protected and conserved area for Arqvilliit in partnership with the community of Inukjuak. Arqvilliit, also called the Ottawa Islands, is a chain of 24 islands—spanning 24,000 hectares—in the north-eastern part of Tasiujarruaq ilua (Hudson Bay).
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced that the Government of Canada has finalized equivalency agreements with the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. These agreements will allow strengthened provincial methane regulations to replace the federal regulations for up to five years. Agreements were finalized with Alberta and Saskatchewan, this fall, and with British Columbia, earlier this year.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | news releases
On October 15, 2020, Débroussaillage Québec and Forestière des Amériques Inc. were each fined $20,000, for a total of $40,000, at the Longueuil courthouse. Each company pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Emergency Order for the Protection of the Western Chorus Frog (the Emergency Order) in contravention of the Species at Risk Act. The companies pleaded guilty to the charge of carrying out a prohibited activity, namely pruning vegetation— including trees, shrubs, and bushes—in a sensitive area.
