Environment

ALUS Red Deer County receives funding to help manage sensitive land

ALUS Red Deer County will tackle riparian health and manage sensitive marginal land with help from new funding from ALUS Canada's New Acre Project. ALUS Canada announced a new, $100,000 New Acre Proje...

Sep 09, 2020

$6.3 million announced to improve green construction practices in Alberta

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The federal government is pumping funding into the province to allow for research into green and energy-efficient construction.Minister of Economic Development Mlanie Joly announced g...

Sep 04, 2020

City eyeing big fines for illegal wastewater dumping

Fines for dumping dangerous prohibited substances into wastewater sewers around Red Deer could soon skyrocket.City council gave first and second reading on Monday to a Utility Bylaw amendment that wou...

Sep 03, 2020

Program offering cash rebates to scrap heavy polluting vehicles comes to Alberta

The SCRAP-IT program, which has removed nearly 50,000 older model polluting vehicles from the roads in British Columbia, and is aiming to do the same in Alberta.SCRAP-IT Alberta offers a $300 cash reb...

Sep 01, 2020

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup returns to Red Deer

Join the national effort to keep our waterways and shorelines clean and safe with the Kerry Wood Nature Centre and the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup! This annual fall initiative draws volunteers fr...

Aug 31, 2020

Critics say spending on Alberta wilderness area inadequate

EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it will upgrade facilities in the province's west-central backcountry where increased use has left behind garbage, damaged sites and human waste.Critics say the ...

Aug 20, 2020

Controlled burn planned as Rocky Forest Area wildfire danger set to 'very high'

With the dry and near-record breaking temperatures that gripped central Alberta over the past few days the Rocky Mountain House Forest Area is now under a Fire Advisory, and as of Wednesday the area h...

Aug 20, 2020

Province announces over $1 million for enhancements in David Thompson Country

Investment in trails on public lands and provincial parks in David Thompson Country will create jobs, enhance recreation and support tourism.The province is investing more than $1 million to enhance t...

Aug 20, 2020

Appeal filed over approval of Blackfalds' Lacombe Lake stormwater plan

An appeal has been filed over an Alberta Environment and Parks decision last month to approve a project that will allow the Town of Blackfalds to drain stormwater into Lacombe Lake.The approval under ...

Aug 17, 2020

Alberta updating mule deer management regulations

The provincial government says a new advisory committee will modernize Alberta's mule deer management plan to reflect current issues facing mule deer populations across the province.In a release, the ...

Aug 13, 2020