Alberta doesn't have a good grasp of the overall environmental impacts of the oilsands a decade after implementing monitoring that was supposed to provide it, internal government documents suggest.
Alberta's United Conservative government plans to eliminate its stand-alone offices for climate change policy and environmental monitoring, a move some say will damage the province's standing and its ability to make science-based plans.
The Alberta government is thinking about cleaning up a former wood-preserving site along one of the province's biggest lakes by capping it off and turning the adjacent land into a park.
