Critics are asking why the Alberta government's proposed regulations on renewable power seem to have ignored the conclusions of its own utilities regulator.
"Assuming all renewable development locates on (some of Alberta's best) land, the percentage of (such) agricultural land loss is estimated to be less than one per cent by 2041," says a report released Wednesday.
Health care and education came out ahead on Thursday in a generally restrained Alberta provincial budget forecasting a paper-thin surplus that could easily go up in smoke.
“This issue is not settled. Companies continue to profit from Alberta’s resources while ignoring their community obligations and funnelling profits to executives and shareholders.”
In a letter dated Thursday, the Alberta Energy Regulator says it has decided the Grassy Mountain proposal should be considered an advanced project and be exempt from a ministerial order banning coal development along the province's eastern slopes.
In his ruling, Judge Richard Southcott said the joint federal-provincial review panel that examined the Grassy Mountain proposal near Crowsnest Pass didn't live up to the consultation promises it made.
New information about high level of pollution were published in a the journal Environmental Pollution by provincial government scientists who were not made available to speak to reporters,
There are currently 51 water shortage advisories in the province. River basins from north to south face critical water shortages from low precipitation.
An interprovincial wine war is fermenting after Alberta's liquor wholesaler told vintners in British Columbia that it won't stock their products in retail stores unless they stop shipping it directly to consumers.