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One Simple Act: As the end of Environment Week approaches cynicism creeps in Environmental education and programs like the...
Edmonton Food and Agriculture Policy Project On May 28th, a savvy Mayor used high noon at the Strathcona Farmers’...
News Release For immediate release 24 May 2011 Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel invites the public to...
Alberta Conservation Association: Conservation travel app makes Alberta’s wild outdoors accessible to everyone EDMONTON, ALBERTA–(Marketwire – May 12, 2011)...
“Water exchange” vs. money for a licence – regardless the environment needs law and policy to evolve There has...
Environmental professionals and public participation An entire industry has developed in Canada that prepares environmental risk assessments and evaluations...
What’s standing and why should you care? When the lawyers were figuring out a theme for this issue of...
Whyte Avenue fire affects local air quality At 4:00am on April 7, 2011, I woke up to smoke pouring...
Environmental rights die for election The upcoming federal election puts an end to lawmaking in progress, including Bill C-469,...
Grass, sky, gone. The latest ecosystem status and trends report for Canada, released last fall, indicates rapid decline of...
Environmental Assessment Changes: Will They Affect You? (Webinar) Are you confused about how recent changes in Environmental Assessment law...
A Chemical Reaction: Canada’s first pesticide ban turns 20! We all understand that the choices we make have effects...
Can Alberta learn from Fukushima? Most media reports in Canada addressing the wake of the Fukushima meltdown and two...
Canada Water Week and standing To kick off Canada Water Week (the 14th to the 22nd of March) with...
Property rights vs. planning shouldn’t be a battle to the death What we do with our land is constrained...
New research on public health implications of coal power New research published in Environmental Health Perspectives this month compares...
Bill C-469, Federal Environmental Bill of Rights report of the Environment committee submitted to the House of Commons The...
“Water worlds” and nutrient management policies: recent isotope hydrology studies may have significant policy implications Jeffrey McDonell, a hydrologist...
Fighting gravel applications in Alberta – Guest blog January 20, 2011 was a good day for watersheds; it was...
The Duck Stops Here! Do tailings ponds trump migratory bird protection? (Webinar) The Syncrude ducks trial last year was...
AUC not GHG The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) has denied an application by Capital Power to amend greenhouse gas...
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