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Accumulated precipitation contours showing the June 19–22, 2013 rainfall event within Alberta's Rockies and the foothills that triggered the flooding [8]. Situated east of the Canadian Rockies, southern Alberta is a semi-arid region that does not usually receive high amounts of rainfall.
"According to the Alberta government, the impact of methane as a greenhouse gas is, "25 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period." In 2014, Alberta's oil and gas sector emitted 31.4 megatonnes of methane (measured in carbon dioxide equivalent)." [8] Alberta set 45-per-cent-by-2025 methane emission reduction targets. [14]
Located about 30 km (19 mi) east of Hinton, the Obed Mountain Mine was a 7,460-hectare (18,400-acre) thermal coal mine with the capacity to produce about 3.2 million tonnes (7.1 billion pounds) of coal per year; [3] 2.6 million tonnes (5.7 billion pounds) are proven to exist, and up to 84.7 million more tonnes (187 billion pounds) were posited. [3]
Regional GIS data for Canadian Provinces and Territories; Name Description; GeoDiscover Alberta Portal: Alberta regional GIS datasets on a variety of topics hosted by the Alberta Government. DataBC Data Catalogue: Spatial and aspatial data from the province of British Columbia. Land Information Ontario: Spatial data from the province of Ontario.
On May 28, 2013, the Province of Alberta launched the Alberta Open Data Portal with approximately 244 datasets. [11] In August 2015 a new portal open.alberta.ca was released to the public, adding further content to the datasets including Government of Alberta publications, a blog, descriptions of how both datasets and publications are chosen ...
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River floods can occur throughout the year with precipitation leading to summer floods (1995 and 2005 floods) and river ice creating a potential for flooding in the winter (1997 floods). River flooding in Southern Alberta during the spring of 2005 tragically resulted in the loss of 3 lives and an economic loss of hundreds of millions of dollars."
The Highwood River is subject to frequent flooding. Flood events of exceptional magnitude occurred in 1894, 1899, 1902, 1908, 1912, 1923, 1929, 1932, 1942, 1995, 2005 and 2013. [ 1 ] Most recently during the 2013 Alberta floods , thousands of people in Alberta were ordered to evacuate their homes after the rise of the Highwood River, Bow River ...