Tag: Environment

  • TransCanada Lawsuit Spotlights Weak Climate Change Connection to Keystone

    TransCanada Lawsuit Spotlights Weak Climate Change Connection to Keystone

    Rejection of the pipeline was never about climate change By Kenneth P. Green and Taylor Jackson, The Fraser Institute Jan 13, 2016/ Troy Media/ – The Keystone XL saga has taken a new twist. On Jan. 6, TransCanada (the company that would have built and operated the Alberta to Texas pipeline) launched two lawsuits over U.S. President…

  • Three Species that have come Back from the Brink of Extinction

    Three Species that have come Back from the Brink of Extinction

    The greatest threat to endangered species across Canada can be the humans that surround them. Pollution, climate change, the destruction of natural habitats – these manmade effects are pushing many species and their environments to the brink of extinction. Despite this dire situation, there are several species at risk that have been able to thrive…

  • The Health Effects and Costs of Air Pollution

    The Health Effects and Costs of Air Pollution

    By Leighton Walter Kille and Denise-Marie Ordway If you’d like to start a lively discussion at a politically diverse gathering, a good way is to bring up the potential benefits and costs of environmental regulations. The current political divide in the United States pretty much guarantees that soon you’ll be hearing supporters defending “common-sense laws”…

  • WWF ready to work with federal government to protect critical marine areas in Hudson Bay

    WWF ready to work with federal government to protect critical marine areas in Hudson Bay

    IQALUIT, January, 2016 /CNW/ – WWF hails Manitoba’s first provincial Beluga Habitat Sustainability Plan, to be released today, as an encouraging step to protecting vital beluga habitat in Canada. In response to the habitat sustainability plan, David Miller, president and CEO of WWF-Canada said: “WWF-Canada welcomes this plan and the opportunity it presents to protect habitat…

  • Records Management Investigation Reveals Lack of Effective Control, Accountability

    Records Management Investigation Reveals Lack of Effective Control, Accountability

      A joint investigation by Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner and Public Interest Commissioner into allegations of improper destruction of records by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development in the wake of the 2015 provincial election has resulted in troubling findings concerning the overall management of records. On May 12, 2015, the Public Interest Commissioner…

  • King Kong was Inflexible

    King Kong was Inflexible

      The giant ape went extinct 100,000 years ago, due to its inability to adapt Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment in Tübingen and from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt examined the demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus. In their study, published recently in the scientific journal “Quaternary International,” they…

  • Improved Safety Measures at the Regional Landfill During Wind Events

    Improved Safety Measures at the Regional Landfill During Wind Events

      The Foothill Regional Services Commission (FRSC) announces that effective January 1, 2016 improved safety measures will be in place. When wind speeds reach and exceed 60 km/hr the landfill may be closed at management’s discretion. August 1, 2015, the Landfill brought in a new safety measure to close the landfill to all users, when…

  • Award Winning Empyrean Lighting’s Revolutionary LED Products Now Available to Canada Through Official Agent Prolux Lighting

    Award Winning Empyrean Lighting’s Revolutionary LED Products Now Available to Canada Through Official Agent Prolux Lighting

      Empyrean Lighting Designs, Manufactures and Supplies Ultra-High Quality LED Lighting Products That Are at the Cutting Edge of Research and Technology; These Products Will Now Be Available Through Empyrean’s Alberta-Based Agent: Prolux Lighting VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – December 2015) – Award winning Empyrean Lighting is proud to announce that Prolux Lighting will act as…

  • What North America Can Expect from El Niño

    What North America Can Expect from El Niño

    By Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research A major El Niño is under way now. It already has substantially influenced weather patterns around the globe, but could have even bigger impacts this winter. There have been only two “super” El Niños until now: in 1982-83 and 1997-98. We are now experiencing a third…

  • CPAWS: If I Had to Describe 2015 in One Word, it Would be ‘Surprising’

    CPAWS: If I Had to Describe 2015 in One Word, it Would be ‘Surprising’

      In January, if you had told me that the Castle Wilderness Area in Alberta would finally see protection after years of work, I would have thought you were crazy. If you had said that the BC government would be consulting on creating a National Park in the South Okanagan, I would have said you…

  • Healthy Development Group Holding First Meeting for 2016

    Healthy Development Group Holding First Meeting for 2016

    The first “Healthy Development” meeting of the new year is this Tuesday, January 5, 7:00pm at the Griffiths Centre.    The main focus of the meeting will be to update folks on how things are unfolding with regards to the development of a local energy retailer, Sheep River Energy. In addition, there may be updates…

  • Re-cycle Your Christmas Trees in Town of Okotoks

    Re-cycle Your Christmas Trees in Town of Okotoks

    Curbside pick-up or self-haul options! Town crews will begin picking up Christmas trees January 11-22 on a neighbourhood by neighbourhood basis until all are collected. For tree collection: place your tree at your regular garbage/recycling collection area (lay it down on its side). Do not put the tree in a plastic bag, and be sure to…

  • Christmas Tree Pick-up Black Diamond & Turner Valley

    Christmas Tree Pick-up Black Diamond & Turner Valley

    Black Diamond The Town’s Public Works staff will be picking up natural Christmas Trees until the 28th of January. Please remove all ornaments, tinsel, garland, etc. and leave your expired tree by the curb next to your usual bin location. They are picked up separately from your garbage collection, so please leave the tree out…

  • The Cost of Fighting Fires in the MD of Foothills

    The Cost of Fighting Fires in the MD of Foothills

    Note: with fire and emergencies that occur within the MD, ratepayers may be subject to the following charges. For Fire Service responses located on residential or agriculturally zoned land within the M.D. for a fire not intentionally set by the occupant, or fires caused by an act of nature or vandalism, charges will be actual…

  • Public Views and Misperceptions Relating to Organic Food: Terminology And Understanding

    Public Views and Misperceptions Relating to Organic Food: Terminology And Understanding

    Across North America, the demand for organic and local foods has been booming. In the United States, sales of organic foods grew from $11 billion in 2004 to an estimated $27 billion in 2012 according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA also reports an increase in direct sales from local farms to consumers,…