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Environment, Energy and Climate Action Annual Report 2021-2022
Environment, Energy and Climate Action Annual Report 2021-2022
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Commercial Users of Pesticides
Individuals or companies that want to buy a non-domestic class pesticide, can do so with a Pesticide Applicator Certificate. If they don't have this certificate, they must have a Pesticide Purchase Permit. These permits are only issued to licensed pesticide application businesses...
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Land Conservation
Prince Edward Island is a special place. As an Island, it has 1,100 km of shoreline, indented with productive bays and coves, and dotted with rolling sand dunes and soaring red cliffs. Our Island is home to thousands of species of plants and animals and many distinct habitat...
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Restrictive Covenants and Conservation Easements
Natural Areas Protection Act (NAPA) The goal of this restrictive covenant is to preserve exceptional or rare habitats and areas of special importance to wildlife with more non-intrusive, hands off management. Under this agreement, allowable activities prescribed in property...
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PEI to increase tree planting to 1.3 million trees annually
The province is working to replant hurricane-damaged forests and expand forested land. $1 million in provincial funding for tree planting will be used to expand the J. Frank Gaudet Tree Nursery and work with community partners and landowners on tree planting. “Prince Edward...
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Fire ban in PEI including campfires
PEI’s minister responsible for forestry has issued a fire closure order that bans all fires in the province, including campfires, until June 25 or further notice. “We see what our neighbouring provinces are going through, and it’s clear that we need to take every possible step to...
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Forest growth in PEI outpaced forest harvest
PEI’s forests are projected to capture and store between 0.04 and 0.08 megatonnes of carbon emissions per year in the coming decades with the help of PEI’s 16,000 woodlot owners, according to the latest State of Forest Report. The report covers PEI forest trends from 2010 to 2020...
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Net Zero Advisory Committee begins work
Local experts have begun their work on advising government on matters about climate change. The ten members of the Net Zero Advisory Committee had their first meeting recently and spoke about how the local impacts of climate change are an increasingly prominent feature in each of...
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Preliminary post-Fiona forestry imagery now available
The first updated satellite images of PEI’s forests are now available on the province’s website. “Government continues to work with our partners on forest recovery after Fiona. We need to manage our forests using the best available science and the advice of local experts if we...