Alberta Environment

Recent leaks of toxic tailings from northern Alberta oilsands mines have revealed serious flaws in how Canada and Alberta look after the environment, observers say.

Alberta Environment is investigating how a family's water well near a gravel mine became so contaminated by lead it's no longer drinkable.

New Alberta government research has found windblown dust from mountaintop removal coal mines has polluted a pristine alpine lake to the point where its waters are as contaminated as lakes downwind from the oilsands.

A United Nations body that monitors some of the world's greatest natural glories is in Canada again to assess government responses to ongoing threats to the country's largest national park, including plans to release treated oilsands tailings into its watershed.

Jeff Kneteman said Alberta Environment has known about the problem in bighorn sheep for years. But it has yet to commission any studies about the effects on the three herds and how far the contamination has spread through the local ecosystem.

Alberta's environment minister said on Thursday, March 18, 2021, there's no plan to change water allocations in the province's arid southwest.

The Alberta government has yet to release details on how it will "optimize" the province's parks by getting other people to run them.

Some Alberta rivers and streams have already been heavily contaminated by coal mining, unreported government data suggests.

The federal government has announced more than $50 million for research into marine and freshwater ecosystems across Canada.

Is sand a mineral? An Alberta court decision recently found it is, a crucial distinction that means hundreds of projects suddenly require an environmental assessment.

Seven environmental and Indigenous groups have asked the Alberta government to restart oilpatch monitoring as soon as possible given that other activities are coming out of the COVID-19 shutdown.

Joseph Enverga kept hoping the flooding would slow down or even stop as his apartment lights flickered on and off.

Alberta is to increase what it spends to fight the slow creep of the mountain pine beetle through the province's forests and has asked the federal government to chip in.

An infectious disease fatal to some kinds of young fish has been found in the North Saskatchewan River watershed.