Environment

City encourages residents to “store it, don’t pour it” this holiday season

Though the holidays may look different this year, cooking and baking traditions are likely to continue in homes across Red Deer. The City wants to remind residents to properly dispose of fats, oils, a...

Dec 14, 2020

Federal government to plant two billion trees over 10 years

OTTAWA, ON - The federal government has announced its plan to plant two billion trees.The $3.16 billion investment will see the two billion trees planted across Canada over 10 years. The government sa...

Dec 14, 2020

Nixon: Carbon tax increases an 'attack on Alberta's economy and jurisdiction'

EDMONTON - Alberta's parks and environment minister says the federal government's plan to meet its climate change commitments is an attack on Alberta's economy and jurisdiction."The prime minister con...

Dec 11, 2020

Federal climate plan includes carbon tax increases through 2030

OTTAWA - The federal government has released a $15-billion plan to meet its climate change commitments that includes steady increases to its carbon tax in each of the next 10 years."It can no longer b...

Dec 11, 2020

Goose saved from fishing line, chilly waters of South Saskatchewan River

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The goose got loose but only after a rescue from two members of the public and treatment and care from APARC (Alberta Pound And Rescue Centres) Medicine Hat.Dallas Lansdown and Torr...

Dec 10, 2020

Nature Conservancy of Canada’s 26th annual green gifts program

We all know people who begin shopping for the holidays in summer and who post about their great finds on social media before the snow even flies! In years past, this might have seemed annoyingly effic...

Dec 09, 2020

Bylaw proposed for Clear Creek & North Raven River Buffer District

At Clearwater County's December 8 council meeting, representatives from the Alberta Fish and Game Association (AFGA) discussed their desire for 33 quarter-sections of land 10 kilometres northeast of C...

Dec 08, 2020

Environmental groups keep fighting KXL despite Biden's promise to block pipeline

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Critics of Canada's most controversial cross-border pipeline projects aren't taking their demise for granted under president-elect Joe Biden. A new report from the U.S.-based Rainfo...

Dec 08, 2020

Alberta set to retire coal power by 2023

An environmental think-tank says Alberta will meet its goal to eliminate coal-fired electricity production years earlier than expected thanks to recent conversion announcements by utility companies.Th...

Dec 04, 2020

Judge tosses application to pause Alberta inquiry into funding of oil and gas foes

CALGARY - An environmental law group has lost its bid to pause Alberta's inquiry into where critics of its oil and gas industry get their funding.Ecojustice sought an injunction in the summer to suspe...

Nov 30, 2020