Controversial smart meters could come to Saskatoon
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-06-14 06:56:23 -0700 | green-news
The City of Saskatoon wants its customers to switch over to electronic "smart meters" to cut down on water and electricity consumption, even though the meters have been a source of controversy in other jurisdictions. The meters, which would replace...
SaskEnergy lights gas flare in city before construction
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-06-04 14:42:47 -0700 | green-news
A six-metre natural gas flare surged into Saskatoon's sky today. At 7 a.m., SaskEnergy started a controlled flare of natural gas at 11th Street West between Avenue W and Circle Drive to remove gas from an existing pipeline so crews...
Waterloo climate claims raise eyebrows
Source: Leader Post Online
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-31 03:23:10 -0700 | green-news
A University of Waterloo physicist made the bold claim Thursday that global warming is not caused by carbon dioxide but by CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays. In a report that has raised plenty of eyebrows among climate scientists, Waterloo's Qing-Bin...
Researcher seeks answers to severe weather
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-28 18:20:01 -0700 | green-news
Scientists don't know precisely why the prairies were hit with an alarming combination of fire, floods and drought in the summers of 2009 through 2011...Dr. Julian Brimelow of the University of Manitoba, one of Tuesday's speakers at the 2013 Joint...
Climate group fears no return after emission milestone
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-27 19:21:18 -0700 | green-news
A climate change milestone reached this month is nothing to celebrate, say local environmentalists. The daily average level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million on two consecutive days for the first time in human history,...
How to make dirty coal clean for $1.2 B
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-27 07:24:48 -0700 | green-news
Much has been written about SaskPower's $1.24-billion integrated carbon capture and storage project at Boundary Dam power station's Unit 3 near Estevan: The Boundary Dam Unit 3 project is the world's first commercial-scale, post-combustion, clean-coal power project.
Protesters rally against Monsanto in Saskatoon
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-26 15:28:13 -0700 | green-news
About 200 people rallied in the streets of Saskatoon against chemical corporation Monsanto, part of a worldwide event to criticize the spread of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)...I feel we're being treated like lab rats, said Kimberly Litz, one of the...
Tougher food-safety rules in the works, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-23 22:38:01 -0700 | green-news
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the country's food watchdog is planning to impose tougher rules to deal with the threat of E. coli in slaughterhouses. He says Canadian Food Inspection Agency will also require that meat plants producing mechanically tenderized...
As spring runoff risk tapers off, Sask. government moves into ‘recovery phase'
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-23 23:02:19 -0700 | green-news
The provincial government's flood fighters are reluctant to state the risk from spring runoff has completely ended, but they're ending their regular flood briefings for the media and thinking about the lessons learned from the latest spring in the province's...
North perimeter highway planning starts in June
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-15 07:42:43 -0700 | green-news
The construction of a six-lane parkway bridge in Saskatoon's north end will not delay plans for a north perimeter highway bridge that would carry heavy traffic around the city, according to Don McMorris, the minister responsible for highways and infrastructure....
After recycling, city turns its eye to compost program
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-10 20:50:27 -0700 | green-news
It would cost upwards of $45 million to pick up kitchen waste and compost from people's homes all over Saskatoon, a new city report says. But that isn't stopping civic officials from exploring what to do with mountains of organic...
Federal, provincial governments pony up $65M to quench irrigation needs on farms
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-05-03 12:41:39 -0700 | green-news
Farmers in Saskatchewan are getting help with irrigation that will bring water to livestock and for spraying crops. The federal and provincial governments are adding $65 million over five years to the Farm and Ranch Water Infrastructure Program. The program...
Province could ask RMs to pay more to fight wildfires
Source: Star Phoenix
Saskatoon :: Canada | updated 2013-04-22 07:22:36 -0700 | green-news
Environment Minister Ken Cheveldayoff said in an interview the government is considering changing how costs are shared with municipalities for fighting wildfires in a 4.5-kilometre buffer zone around the forests. "In the rest of the municipality, if a fire happens...
CO leak evacuates more than 40 residents
Source: Star Phoenix
Pleasant Hill :: CA :: USA | updated 2012-02-21 16:45:10 -0800 | technology-news
More than 40 people were evacuated from an assisted living apartment building Tuesday evening after a carbon monoxide leak. Saskatoon Fire and Protective Services was called to the building at 127 Avenue Q South just after 10:30 p.m. when carbon...
Water ban lifted; river levels put plant capacity at 100 per cent
Source: Star Phoenix
Augusta Richmond :: GA :: USA | updated 2011-09-12 19:28:34 -0700 | political-news
The mandatory water restriction that had been in place in various forms for nearly one month was officially ended on Monday, according to the City of Saskatoon. City officials expected the ban to be lifted by Friday but because residents...
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