http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage From overnight in-paper feed, updates monthly en-gb Sat, 25 May 2013 14:15:15 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/kinder-morgan-takes-next-step-in-its-trans-mountain-oil-pipeline-expansion-plan-208857281.html Kinder Morgan Canada's proposal to increase the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline calls for 30 oil tankers a month to load up with Alberta crude at its terminal in Burnaby, B.C., — up from about one per week. The information is part of a formal description of the proposed $5.4-billion,... Fri, 24 May 2013 18:41:08 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/chile-blocks-pascua-lama-mine-fines-barrick-16-million-for-serious-environmental-violations-208832701.html VALLENAR, Chile - Chile's environmental regulator blocked Barrick Gold Corp.'s US$8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project on Friday and imposed its maximum fine on the world's largest gold miner, citing "very serious" violations of its environmental permit as well as a failure by the company to Fri, 24 May 2013 15:07:06 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/seal-hunt-off-newfoundland-called-best-in-years-as-protesters-push-for-its-end-208853981.html ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - This year's commercial seal hunt off Newfoundland is being called a success despite relatively low yields, ongoing protest by animal welfare groups and international product bans. Frank Pinhorn, executive director of the Canadian Sealers Association, says about 91,000 harp Fri, 24 May 2013 15:24:05 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/ocean-fertilization-project-leader-fired-but-first-nation-still-backs-iron-dump-208824251.html OLD MASSETT, B.C. - The California businessman behind a controversial ocean fertilization project off B.C.'s west coast has been fired, but the group behind the project says it still supports the concept. Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation says it has removed Russ George as a director and Fri, 24 May 2013 10:16:10 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/logging-begins-near-vancouver-islands-pristine-juan-de-fuca-marine-trail-208821601.html VICTORIA - A property developer says logging is underway on a portion of land near the rugged and pristine Juan de Fuca Marine Trail on Vancouver Island's southwest coast. Ender Ilkay has been trying for years to sell the 2.5-square kilometre section of property between Jordan River and Port Fri, 24 May 2013 09:54:11 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/calif-bill-would-require-product-makers-to-help-reduce-plastic-trash-polluting-the-ocean-208796661.html 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. Assembly Bill 521 was before the chamber's Appropriations Committee, and the panel failed to Fri, 24 May 2013 17:46:05 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/water-advisory-still-on-in-montreal-208699811.html MONTREAL - A huge boil-water advisory affecting 1.3 million people in Montreal, described by local officials as unprecedented in the recorded history of the city, was lifted late Thursday. City officials ended the two-day-old advisory at 10:15 p.m., after tests concluded the water quality was Fri, 24 May 2013 09:00:18 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/vancouver-aquarium-breeds-endangered-frogs-plans-to-release-amphibians-208721871.html VANCOUVER - Scientists at the Vancouver Aquarium have sprung into action, as part of an effort to prevent an endangered frog population from becoming extinct in eastern British Columbia. The Rocky Mountain population of northern leopard frogs plummeted by the millions in the 1970s, and only two Fri, 24 May 2013 12:19:38 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/coast-guard-will-lower-subsea-bags-to-seal-leaking-shipwreck-off-newfoundland-208678211.html 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. Bob Grant, a senior response officer, says the coast guard ship Vladykov is over the wreck which sits in about 80 metres of water in Notre Dame Thu, 23 May 2013 12:20:18 CDT http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/sunk-no-reports-of-drifting-ghost-ship-lyubov-orlova-in-more-than-two-months-208665181.html 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. The Canadian Coast Guard says it has received no reported sightings of the Lyubov Orlova since March 12. At the time, one of the Thu, 23 May 2013 15:29:04 CDT