About the AEN

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.

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Connecting Alberta’s environmental groups

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.

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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. 

Conservation groups shift focus in tackling mine next-door to Jasper National Park

Nature CanadaPembina InstituteSierra Club of CanadaJasper Environmental AssociationSierra Legal Defence FundAlberta Wilderness Association

EDMONTON, AB – The conservation groups from across Canada that have been challenging the Cheviot open-pit mine have decided to shift their campaign focus from the federal courts to the regulatory and enforcement agencies overseeing the mine, the federal and provincial endangered species provisions and the mine’s parent companies. Although serious legal issues persist, the groups have decided not to appeal last month’s Federal Court decision regarding their challenge of the federal approval for the first phase of the coal mine; known as the haulroad and the Cheviot Creek developments. The 7,450 hectare mine is situated less than three kilometers from the national park, on public lands in the core of a high-elevation wildland earlier determined by the federal and provincial governments to be critical wildlife habitat and warranting of protection as a nationally significant natural area. Read More

RFLF presents Dr. Karl-Henrik Roberts

Recreation For Life Foundation

Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert, one the world's foremost oncologists, cancer researchers and experts on the environmental impacts on health and wholesome living is going to be in town on October 11th. We have just finalized the Edmonton itinerary for his very busy schedule. He is in Alberta to chair an international conference in Canmore and we were lucky to be able to free a day in his busy schedule up to visit us in Edmonton.

We are pleased to invite you, and members of your organization to his public lecture. This lecture will be held at the NAIT Campus in Edmonton AB on October 11th from 10:30 to Noon at the Shaw Theatre. Tickets for the event are $10 (gst included). The topic of his address will be Understanding the Environmental - Health Connection. Read More

Too Good to Waste: Waste Reduction Week Looks for Champions

As part of planning for Waste Reduction Week 2005 in Alberta, the Recycling Council of Alberta is currently seeking out businesses who are Waste Reduction Champions.

These businesses will have shown progressive leadership in reducing their waste streams. If you are aware of a business who you feel qualifies, please forward their contact information to our office at [email protected].

The fifth national Waste Reduction Week will be celebrated Oct. 17 ­ 23, 2005. We are hoping for a record number of events and activities in Alberta this year, and are urging all organizations to plan to participate. No event is too big or too small. To assist us in tracking activities, please register your Waste Reduction Week event on the national website at www.wrwcanada.com. Waste Reduction Week posters, as well as Municipal, School or Business handbooks are also available again this year, and can be ordered through our office. Materials, including handbooks, can also be downloaded from the national website www.wrwcanada.com. If you have any questions or suggestions for Waste Reduction Week 2005, we look forward to talking with you. Thank you for your help in promoting Waste Reduction in Alberta! Read More

Government Subsidizes Source of CWD in Wild Deer, Cuts Wildlife Staff

Alberta Wilderness Association

News Release: September 28, 2005

Long feared and predicted by scientists, the deadly prion disease CWD (elk/deer equivalent of mad cow) has now been confirmed outside game farm fences in Alberta. While this development had been expected, the response is astonishing: Despite escalating costs and the enormity of the threats - and with no evidence that it can ever be viable - the Alberta Government continues to prop up the industry with subsidies and a seemingly unlimited damage-control budget.

"The government is mindlessly throwing money at the symptoms," says Vivian Pharis of AWA's Board of Directors, "and they're not just ignoring source of the problem, they're actually subsidizing it with taxpayers money." Read More

Parkland Institute Forum: Our Energy, Our Future

The implications of Alberta's lack of vision on energy and industrial policy

Parkland Institute

October 5, 2005
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Business Building, Room1-6, University of Alberta
Free event, donations welcomed

Featuring:
Diana Gibson, author and Parkland's Research Director, and
Don McNiel, Communication Energy and Paperworkers Union Regional Representative

Polls show 62 percent of Albertans think that Canada’s leaders are doing too little to control foreign control over our energy resources (McAllister Opinion Research). When asked the best way to meet future energy needs, 74 per cent of Albertans chose reducing our consumption of energy while only 19 per cent wanted to increase supply of energy to meet demand. Read More

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