Alberta Government puts $5m toward conservation easements A recent media release indicates that the Government of Alberta has created...
Emergency order: Court wonders why some caribou herds need not survive A recent decision of the Federal Court has...
Buffalo Lake Integrated Shoreland Management Plan: A model for lake management? The Government of Alberta recently published the Buffalo...
Timelines placed on federal comprehensive studies The Establishing Timelines for Comprehensive Studies Regulations under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act...
The Alberta Water Authority: should the idea sink or swim? Last month the Report of the Premier’s Council for...
One Simple Act: As the end of Environment Week approaches cynicism creeps in Environmental education and programs like the...
“Water exchange” vs. money for a licence – regardless the environment needs law and policy to evolve There has...
Canada Water Week and standing To kick off Canada Water Week (the 14th to the 22nd of March) with...
“Water worlds” and nutrient management policies: recent isotope hydrology studies may have significant policy implications Jeffrey McDonell, a hydrologist...
The cumulative impacts of liquor stores and oilsands A recent Alberta Court of Appeal “leave to appeal” decision deals...
“Rac”king our brain over oilsands country; interpreting the Land Use Framework; Lower Athabasca Regional Plan and biodiversity doublespeak
...Everyone DUCK! The notion that tailings pond duck deaths should be trivialized because of how many birds die through...
Water markets and winning the lottery As it is Blog Action Day regarding water…What is the “water lottery”? It’s...
Accountable for what? When we talk about accountability we are, by necessity, drawn into the world of law. The...
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