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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%.
The Alberta coal policy controversy is a complex legal and environmental dispute concerning coal mining in Alberta, Canada, particularly in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The controversy began when the United Conservative Party (UCP) government rescinded the 1976 Coal Policy in June 2020, which had protected sensitive areas from ...
Natural Resources Conservation Board Act (NRCBA) [3] "The purpose of this Act is to provide for an impartial process to review projects that will or may affect the natural resources of Alberta in order to determine whether, in the Board’s opinion, projects are in the public interest, having regard to the social and economic effects of the projects and the effect of the projects on the ...
[8] [9] [10] It has historically colluded with corporations to cover-up environmental catastrophes like oil spills and pipeline leakages - most recently in February 2023, when it was revealed that the AER hid evidence of multiple tailings ponds leakages at Imperial Oil's Kearl tar-sands mine, amounting to over 5.3 million litres of wastewater ...
Environmental issues are harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment. This alphabetical list is loosely divided into causes, effects and mitigation, noting that effects are interconnected and can cause new effects.
The estimated carbon emissions for July 2024 were the most of any July dating back to 2003, when the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service began collecting data. [6] When the fire season officially ended on October 31, the province had seen 775,000 hectares burned, compared to 2.2 million in 2023. [ 13 ]
Pages in category "Environmental issues in Alberta" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... This page was last edited on 8 June 2021, at 04:53 ...
This is a list of lakes of Alberta, Canada. Most of Alberta's lakes were formed during the last glaciation, about 12,000 years ago. There are many different types of lakes in Alberta, from glacial lakes in the Canadian Rockies to small shallow lakes in the prairies , brown water lakes in the northern boreal forest and muskeg , kettle holes and ...