Alberta

Sharing environmental stories from across Alberta

  • Northern Alberta residents learn to sample air quality near tar sands

    Edmonton – Growing criticism of the Stelmach government’s and the oil industry’s air quality monitoring in communities near tar-sands operations has spurred residents from the Peace and Athabasca regions to take matters into their own hands, attending independent training workshops to arm themselves with answers to the ongoing health issues… Continue reading

  • Capital Power breaks a key promise to Albertans

    Edmonton – Environmental groups and landowners have joined forces to block Capital Power’s bid to remove a legal requirement that it offset 50 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions that are released from the Genesee 3 coal power plant. Continue reading

  • Shrinking environmental monitoring budgets in Alberta

    Image by ItzaFineDay via Flickr Edmonton – On the eve of a verdict in the Syncrude trial into the 2008 deaths of 1,606 ducks on one of its tailings ponds, Greenpeace released three graphs showing that the Alberta government has consistently cut the province’s environmental enforcement and monitoring budget, while… Continue reading

  • False Alberta Government claims highlight inadequate emissions regulations

    The Government of Alberta yesterday made false claims about greenhouse gas emissions from the province’s major industrial polluters. The claims were included in a government news release and backgrounder detailing results from provincial greenhouse gas regulations for the year 2009. “It is simply unacceptable for the government to make claims… Continue reading

  • Alberta Oil Sands Regulator Does Not Enforce Toxic Tailings Rules

    Syncrude is Given a Pass to Delay Liquid Tailings Clean Up Calgary, April 23 — One day after Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach announced he would “force an end to tailings ponds,” Alberta’s oil sands regulator, the Alberta Energy and Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), has approved plans for Syncrude that do… Continue reading

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