A particularly warm and dry spring across much of Canada has set the scene for the current wildfire situation. Many of the country's provinces are deep in drought . In May this year, parts of Nova Scotia reported less than 50% of their average monthly precipitat...
the fire weather situation remains similar to recent conditions. In other words, warmer than normal and drier than normal rolls on for much of the country. Typically, Canada’s fire season is just kicking into gear for the months ahead. ...
‘The situation is unpredictable right now and there are certainly difficult days ahead,’ premier David Eby said Sat Aug 19 2023 - 08:03 Yellowknife: fire crews battle to save Canadian city Large fuel breaks are carved out in surrounding forests as residents are implored to heed evacuation ord...
The recovery and utilization of landfill gas is a win-win situation which makes good sense from local, regional and global perspectives. It provides the benefits of (1) reducing the release of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming; (2) limiting odors; (3) controlling damage to ...
Quebec is now facing the toughest challenge, with 163 fires burning, 117 of them out of control. The Quebec fire situation flared up extremely fast. Just a week ago, there were only 16 fires in the province, and they had burned about 215 square ki...
“I am concerned that as the threats to the world’s security situation increase, the threats at home increase, our readiness is going down,” he said. “The military that we have today is not the military that we need for the threats that are occurring in the future.” ...
The biggest challenge in the current situation, he said, is that fires are happening simultaneously in several provinces at once, straining resources that are usually shared between provinces and forcing agencies to look abroad for reinforcements. ...
We heard on the news that it was quite a mess up in Cape Breton so we wrote to both our Airbnb hosts to find out the situation. They both said we shouldn’t come up to Cape Breton and offered to refund us fully. We were very disappointed but they were without power and would be...
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There are fires in nearly all of Canada’s provinces. The current wildfires in the U.S. have led to no evacuations thus far. Why is the U.S. experiencing poor air quality? To put it simply, the Northeastern region of the U.S. and the rest of the Eastern seaboard as far down as...