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And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire ....
Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke, and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for thatjust began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, itsjust one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. So if the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the ....
Just clear cutting and widespread practices of logging can be exacerbating, rather than helpful. i mean, in 2019, canada ranked as the tenth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases globally. in your professional opinion, what more can be done? canada is working really hard right now at reducing emissions. we ve got a price on carbon that s due to rise, $270 per tonne by 2030. there are new regulations coming, earlier this year and more in the fall, for the electricity sector, for the oil and gas sector. so really, it is about implementation of those policies. it s about getting those policies in place, bending our emissions curve down even more, it s also about bringing certainty to those policies. some of the ways to reduce emissions are big, long lived projects that depend not only on policy signals today, but policy signals on the future. and so, ongoing debate and contention around some of these policies is contributing to uncertainty and undermining efforts to reduce emissions, and at ....