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OTTAWA — The office of Environment Minister Peter Kent responded to media coverage of his department’s decision to spurn recycling and buy new furniture for a building under renovations by asking bureaucrats to publicly call the reports ...
May 20, 2012 at 20:20 | Source: news.nationalpost.com
MELBOURNE – Australia's federal environment minister said Thursday that he wouldn't apologize for his caution over a proposal by Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) to expand its bauxite mining operations in Queensland state. A word of words has erupted ...
May 24, 2012 at 08:19 | Source: FOXBusiness
OTTAWA — Environment Canada scientists are allowed to give interviews when journalists make "reasonable" requests, the department's minister, Peter Kent, said Wednesday morning near the end of a four-hour session in the House of Commons. The remarks were ...
May 16, 2012 at 18:37 | Source: Calgary Herald
OTTAWA — Environment Minister Peter Kent was unable to explain Monday what was going on in his office last July, when it asked bureaucrats to publicly blame the media for a recycling controversy in his department. The controversy revolved around ...
May 22, 2012 at 00:08 | Source: The Vancouver Sun
TOKYO — Japan's environment and nuclear minister visited the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant Saturday to inspect a spent fuel pool at the centre of safety concerns. The visit by Goshi Hosono comes amid renewed concerns about the ...
May 26, 2012 at 16:09 | Source: CTV
TOKYO - Japan’s environment and nuclear minister visited the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Saturday to inspect a spent-fuel pool and said it appeared to have been properly reinforced. The visit by Goshi Hosono was ...
May 27, 2012 at 07:47 | Source: The Boston Globe
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her conservative party to an embarrassingly heavy state election defeat. Merkel said she had asked Germany's president to dismiss Norbert ...
May 16, 2012 at 15:46 | Source: FOX News
A significant cost cutting exercise within the Environment portfolio helps explain why Budget 2012 has come and gone without a sighting of Minister Amy Adams, says Labour's Environment spokesperson Grant Robertson. "Environment has always been seen as the ...
May 26, 2012 at 03:59 | Source: Voxy
the minister responsible for wildlife protection at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). When news of this emerged last week, it sparked outrage from conservationists even exceeding that which greeted the last Defra proposal to ...
May 28, 2012 at 23:09 | Source: The Independent
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel fired her environment minister on Wednesday after he led her conservative party to an embarrassingly heavy state election defeat. Merkel said she had asked Germany’s president to dismiss Norbert Roettgen and ...
May 16, 2012 at 15:31 | Source: Washington Post