The Alberta Environmental Network (AEN) connects Albertans and environmental groups that are dedicated to preserving and protecting Alberta’s environment. As a non-profit and non-partisan organization, the AEN supports collaboration of the environmental community throughout the province.
We are a network of individuals and groups working together on shared concerns. AEN members include individuals and representatives from member groups that connect, collaborate and share information.
The AEN is a link between the environmental community and government, industry, the media and all Albertans. View our current member groups.
Albertans and environmental groups are welcome to join the AEN as members – there are memberships for both individuals and groups. Members contribute to preserving and protecting Alberta’s environment by sharing information and collaborating on shared issues. Learn more about becoming a member of the AEN.
The AEN supports an inclusive and diverse environmental community for all Albertans.
Here are the latest updates, action alerts and calls for consultations. Contact us to submit your news and have it distributed to the network.
The March 22 issue of Activist Agenda is now available for download (pdf, 87 KB). Read more about Activist Agenda -- March 22, 2005
The March 17 issue of the Canadian Environmental Network's Weekly e-Bulletin is now available at the CEN website.
Edmonton Earth Day is now accepting applications for exhibitors for Edmonton Earth Day Festival in Hawrelak Park. If you are interested in having an application form sent out to you please contact Janice Boudreau, earth day coordinator at [email protected], or click on the link below to download the application form.
The early bird deadline is being extended from March 15 to March 23 to accomodate for this mailing. Please contact me immediately if you are interested.
Janice Boudreau
780-460-1756
Edmonton Earth Day Coordinator
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Alberta Wilderness Association
News Release: March 15, 2005
The Alberta government's recently announced plan to stem the advance of CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease) by culling deer near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border seems at least a small step toward recognizing the seriousness of the situation. However, in the absence of vastly more substantive action to eliminate the source of the disease - game farming - scientists and conservation organizations point out that Read more about Alberta Action On CWD Ignores The Cause
A conference to launch the Second United Nations Decade of Water
Local and Global Perspectives on the Water Crisis
March 18 and 19, 2005
Main Floor ETLC, University of Alberta
Registration is $25 or $15 (without lunch)
Download the registration form at www.changeforchildren.org or www.ualberta.ca/parkland
Conference Program and speakers below.
The state of water in Alberta remains a critical and contested key issue and this symposium is a challenge to all Albertans to respond to and understand the dirty business of clean water in Alberta. The health and well being of all Albertans depends on the health of our water. Water as a public good is increasingly coming into conflict with the goals and decisions being made by government, and industry.
Speakers will address various themes related to water from the legal battles being waged in the province to the depth of privatization and what that means to our social and economic well being.
For more information contact Change for Children at (780)448-1505 , or Parkland Institute at (780) 492-8558. Conference posters can be printed off of the Change for Children website. Read more about An Earth Out of Water: Local and Global Perspectives on the Water Crisis
The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) has posted the final draft of the "Technical Report on the Management of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) in Waste" to its website for review and comment. The deadline for comments is April 18, 2005.
To view the report and for further details on how to provide comments, please visit:
http://www.eub.gov.ab.ca/BBS/requirements/gbs/bulletin-2005-07.htm Read more about Invitation for Comment: Technical Report on Management of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) in Waste
The March 11 issue of the Canadian Environmental Network's Weekly e-Bulletin is now available at the CEN website.
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Alberta Wilderness Association
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Edmonton Chapter
News Release: March 10, 2005
Alberta conservation groups have received
information from Canadian Forest Products
(Canfor) that they will defer logging activities
in the Little Smoky caribou herd range located
north west of Hinton. Alberta Wildernesses
Association (AWA) and The Canadian Parks
and Wilderness Society- Edmonton Chapter
(CPAWS) are very encouraged by this decision. Read more about Alberta's Little Smoky Caribou Herd Gets Reprieve From Forest Industry Player
Join Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society
in the excitement of our 3rd Annual outdoor event!
Sunday, May 15th, 2005
Fish Creek Provincial Park, Glennfield Area, Calgary
Early Bird Registration until April 15th!!! Read more about Running Wild! Run or Walk for Wilderness
