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The March 2024 Alberta Utilities Commission report said that the Alberta's growing renewables industry posed only a minimal threat to agriculture or the environment. The report indicates that even if all renewable developments occur on some of Alberta's best land, the estimated agricultural land loss by 2041 would be less than 1%. [118] [119]
The Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas of Alberta (also commonly called Alberta Environment and Protected Areas) is the Alberta provincial ministry of the Executive Council of Alberta responsible for environmental issues and policy as well as some, but not all, parks and protected areas in Alberta.
Revised compliance rules cover operational, pipeline, and emission issues. [82] The 2021 report submitted by Alberta's Office of the Auditor General (OAG), Doug Wylie, examined the provincial government's environmental liabilities and the roles of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and Environment and Parks, now called Ministry of Environment ...
Pages in category "Environmental issues in Alberta" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In their June 17, 2021 final report, the joint provincial-federal review panel composed of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) denied Benga Mining's application for the Grassy Mountain Coal Project because of significant adverse environmental effects.
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) is an agency that monitors and reports on biodiversity status throughout the province of Alberta, Canada, [4] that is funded equally by the government of Alberta and the oil and gas industry. [5] The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute is based in Edmonton, Alberta. According to Alberta ...
Commissioner Steve Allan submitted his 657-page final report to Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage on July 30. [6] It was released to the public on October 21, 2021. In his report, Allan said of the environmental groups investigated by the inquiry, "No individual or organization, in my view, has done anything illegal.
Oil sand tailings or oil sands process-affected water (OSPW), have a highly variable composition and a complex mixture of compounds. [4] In his oft-cited 2008 journal article, E. W. Allen wrote that typically tailings ponds consist of c. 75% water, c. 25% sand, silt and clay, c.2% of residual bitumen, as well as dissolved salts, organics, and minerals.