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Sep
15
2010
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Alberta for Sale? Premier Asked to Clarify Government’s ‘Prairies to Potatoes’ Position

Alberta Wilderness Association

Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) is asking for the Premier to clarify a statement made to the media by Minister of Sustainable Resource Development (SRD), Mel Knight, about funds generated by the proposed sale of native prairie Public Lands near Bow Island, Alberta. Sale and conversion of this land would destroy vital habitat for a number of endangered species. Read More

Link: Alberta for Sale? Premier Asked to Clarify Government’s ‘Prairies to Potatoes’ Position
Alberta Wilderness Association
Biodiversity and Wildlife
Land Management & Stewardship
Agriculture
Sep
14
2010
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Albertans could be on the hook for oilsands cleanup costs

Potential $15-billion liability unaccounted for

Pembina Institute

CALGARY, AB — Albertans could end up paying for costly oilsands cleanup, according to a report released today by the Pembina Institute.

Toxic Liability: How Albertans could end up paying for oilsands mine reclamation, outlines inadequacies in how the Government of Alberta calculates and collects the "damage deposit" from oilsands operators to cover oilsands mine reclamation. Read More

Link: Albertans could be on the hook for oilsands cleanup costs (Oil Sands Watch)
Pembina Institute
Economics
Oil Sands
Sep
09
2010

Environmental groups comment on meeting with U.S. House Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Markey

Dr. Marlo Raynolds and Dr. Rick Smith provide statements on outcomes of meeting with U.S. delegates

Pembina Institute
Environmental Defence

OTTAWA — Dr. Marlo Raynolds of the Pembina Institute and Dr. Rick Smith of Environmental Defence made the following statements following their meeting with U.S. Speaker of the House, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, and the Honourable Edward Markey, Chairman of the Energy and Environment Sub-Committee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming: Read More

Link: Environmental groups comment on meeting with U.S. House Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Markey (Pembina)
Pembina Institute
Climate Change
Energy
Sep
09
2010
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Greenpeace report challenges Canada’s need for dirty, risky fossil fuels

Greenpeace Canada

TORONTO — Greenpeace today released a comprehensive analysis of Canada’s energy potential that challenges the need for dirty oil from the tar sands and shows that Canada can create tens of thousands of green jobs, while providing over 90 per cent of the country’s electricity and heating needs from renewable sources by 2050. Read More

Link: Greenpeace report challenges Canada’s need for dirty, risky fossil fuels
Greenpeace
Renewables & Alternatives
Conventional Oil & Gas
Coal
Oil Sands
Sep
08
2010
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Environmental Groups Name Feds in Filing for Caribou Protection

Alberta Wilderness Association
Pembina Institute
Ecojustice

EDMONTON — Environmental groups took steps today to ramp up pressure on the federal government to protect the province’s precious and declining caribou herds.

Ecojustice, on behalf of the Alberta Wilderness Association and the Pembina Institute, filed an application this morning for a federal judicial review, which asks the court to order Environment Minister Jim Prentice to recommend emergency protections for seven caribou herds in northeastern Alberta. Read More

Link: Environmental groups name feds in filing for caribou protection (Ecojustice)
Alberta Wilderness Association
Pembina Institute
Ecojustice
Wildlife Protection
Oil Sands
First Nations Issues
Sep
01
2010
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National Wildlife Area Missing from Proposed Endangered Owl Habitat Designation

Suffield Coalition

Calgary. A proposal by the federal government that would limit habitat protection for the endangered Burrowing Owl has raised alarm among conservation groups. In a letter sent to Environment Minister Jim Prentice today, members of the Suffield Coalition voiced concern that his department’s apparently selective identification of critical habitat overlooks burrowing owls in the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Suffield National Wildlife Area. Read More

Link: National Wildlife Area Missing from Proposed Endangered Owl Habitat Designation (AWA)
Alberta Wilderness Association
Southern Alberta Group for the Environment
Wildlife Protection
Sep
01
2010
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New Study Links Tar Sands to Carcinogens

Sierra Club Canada

 

A new study led by University of Alberta ecologist Dr. David Schindler and published in the renowned Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes some alarming conclusions about the water near the tar sands. After monitoring 60 sites along the Athabasca River and its tributaries, Dr. Schindler concluded the tar sands have added carcinogenic toxins to the area environment.

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Link: New Study Links Tar Sands to Carcinogens (Sierra Club Canada)
Sierra Club of Canada
Toxics
Oil Sands
Water Quality
Aug
31
2010
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Pembina reacts to study showing oil sands mines contribute heavy metals to the Athabasca River

Pembina Institute

Simon Dyer, Oil Sands Program Director at the Pembina Institute, responded to the release of the paper "Oil sands development contributes elements toxic at low concentrations to the Athabasca River and its tributaries," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"This is the second peer-reviewed study that shows definitively that oil sands development is contributing to pollution of the Athabasca watershed. These studies clearly contradict the Government of Alberta claims that pollution in the Athabasca River is natural. Read More

Link: Pembina reacts to study showing oil sands mines contribute heavy metals to the Athabasca River
Pembina Institute
Toxics
Oil Sands
Water Quality

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It is our understanding at the Alberta Environmental Network that Reconciliation starts with the land, and there is no Reconciliation until we have faced the Truth. While Truth is held collectively, we recognize everyone is on their own learning journey, at their own pace. Our work at AEN focuses on the lands outlined by the Province of Alberta, lands with which we are learning to be in kinship relationship, in the nêhiyaw (Cree) spirit of treaty-making. The lands we work for are described in Treaties 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10. The traditional keepers of this land are Anishinabe, Nêhiyawak (Cree), Dené, Dane-zaa, Nakota, Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda), Tsuut’ina, and Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy); this land is also the homeland of the Métis. We are committed to building meaningful reciprocal relationships, to be of service particularly to those directly experiencing the effects of oppression, genocide, and exploitation.