Tag: Environment

  • Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area to Become Canada’s First Nocturnal Preserve

    Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area to Become Canada’s First Nocturnal Preserve

      The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) is pleased to designate Canada’s first Nocturnal Preserve, the Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area (ASCCA), which is located in Alberta. This designation is a key component of a comprehensive national strategy to preserve and protect the natural nocturnal environment. There is a growing need to identify…

  • Environmental Protection Order issued to remediate site of fertilizer spill

    Environmental Protection Order issued to remediate site of fertilizer spill

    Alberta Environment and Parks has ordered 1370996 Alberta Ltd. to carry out activities to prevent impacts to aquatic life in the Little Bow River. Incident details On July 15, 2015, a fertilizer storage tank owned by the company ruptured and approximately 9,800 litres of urea ammonium nitrate was released onto the site. The fertilizer migrated…

  • NDP Promises On CCS Were Just Hot Air: Wildrose

    NDP Promises On CCS Were Just Hot Air: Wildrose

      EDMONTON, AB (July 23, 2015): The NDP government needs to explain why just three months after the election they are breaking one of their key campaign promises to scrap funding for present and future carbon capture projects (CCS), the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. The NDP campaign platform promised to reallocate funding from the…

  • Riparian Restoration Workshops in Turner Valley this August

    Riparian Restoration Workshops in Turner Valley this August

      In August 2014 Sustainability Resources hosted their first Riparian Restoration workshop in Black Diamond, engaging 30 individuals and restoring 70 m2 of damaged shoreline by planting 600 willow saplings. The Riparian Restoration Program aligns the mutually reinforcing activities of its partners that are related to habitat restoration, to ensure their greatest collective impact. Many…

  • Science and History Day in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

    Science and History Day in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

      Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park will host the 12th annual Waterton-Glacier Science and History Day on Tuesday, July 28, from 9:30a.m. – 3:30p.m. at the West Glacier Community Building in Glacier National Park*. The event is free of charge and all are encouraged to attend. Held yearly on the 4th Tuesday in July, this event…

  • Celebrating the Opening of Saskatchewan’s First Water Trail

    Celebrating the Opening of Saskatchewan’s First Water Trail

    On June 6, 2015, Trans Canada Trail and Whitecap Dakota First Nation officially announced the grand opening of the Chief Whitecap Waterway, with a celebratory event in Saskatoon. The Chief Whitecap Waterway is the only water-based trail in Saskatchewan, now an official section of Canada’s national Trail, providing canoe and kayak enthusiasts a place to…

  • Minister Ritz announces major investment in research to boost Canadian agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, create jobs and opportunities

    Minister Ritz announces major investment in research to boost Canadian agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, create jobs and opportunities

    Eleven genomics research projects including four at the University of Saskatchewan, will better position Canadian agriculture and agri-food, and fisheries & aquaculture industries, to feed hungry world markets SASKATOON, July 21, 2015 /CNW/ – The world’s increasing population, the corresponding growing demand for food, and climate variability will have profound impacts on the productive capacity…

  • Peace Region Low Flow Advisory

    Peace Region Low Flow Advisory

    Several basins in the Peace Region are experiencing low flow conditions, prompting the Government of Alberta to notify users to reduce their water consumption. Monitoring results show stream flows have declined significantly below normal levels throughout the Peace Region. When this happens, water withdrawals may increase stress on aquatic ecosystems, which include fish populations. And…

  • Precautionary advisory lifted for Little Bow River

    Precautionary advisory lifted for Little Bow River

    Repeated testing results have indicated no risk to health from Little Bow River northeast of Carmangay. On Wednesday, July 15, approximately 9,800 litres of urea ammonium nitrate, a commonly-used liquid agricultural fertilizer solution, was released from a container on private property. The release occurred near the Little Bow River on land northeast of Carmangay in…

  • UCalgary: New Arctic Research Station Expands Oil Spill Studies

    UCalgary: New Arctic Research Station Expands Oil Spill Studies

      University of Calgary researchers collaborate with colleagues from across Canada at CFI-funded Churchill Marine Observatory By Andrea Kingwell News of an oil spill typically conjures images of blackened sea birds in the Gulf of Mexico, or an expanding slick in the Gulf of Alaska or North Sea. What doesn’t usually come to mind is…

  • Study Reveals Alarming Effects of Climate Change on Bumblebees

    Study Reveals Alarming Effects of Climate Change on Bumblebees

    More than 100 years of data show bumblebees are losing vital habitat south, but also not expanding north By Drew Scherban Researchers from the University of Calgary and University of Ottawa have found that climate change is having a significant impact on bumblebee species in North America and Europe. This astonishing find about the habitat range…

  • Seasonal Weed Management Continues Throughout High River

    Seasonal Weed Management Continues Throughout High River

      HIGH RIVER, AB: The Town Parks Department will be out in the community this week to remove and control noxious weeds on the Centre Street corridor north of the bridge and in Wallaceville up to Eagle View Estates. Blue Weed, which often grows in transportation corridors, will be pulled, bagged and brought to an…

  • Why Hot Crops Can Mean Yield Drops

    Why Hot Crops Can Mean Yield Drops

    Every year summer comes and we in the agriculture industry dread the days that start to creep up on 30 degrees celcius.  This year with drier conditions the across the prairies we are likely to see extreme heat cause even more significant yield reductions. But what exactly is the reasoning for this? Is every crop…

  • Decisive Farming Brings Crop Scouting App to the Canadian Market & Positions Itself For US Expansion

    Decisive Farming Brings Crop Scouting App to the Canadian Market & Positions Itself For US Expansion

      Decisive Farming Partners with Neucadia on licensing of AgraScout Mobile Crop Scouting Application. Calgary, AB / TheNewswire / Decisive Farming™ today announced a partnership with Neucadia, as a global reseller and the exclusive Canadian reseller of AgraScout, a mobile crop scouting application now fully ready to support both American and Canadian crops, pests and…

  • Town of Okotoks asking Residents and Businesses to Continue to be Water Wise

    Town of Okotoks asking Residents and Businesses to Continue to be Water Wise

      The continued hot, dry weather over the last several days has depleted Town reservoirs from normal, fully operational levels. High temperatures and high demand for outdoor water use is putting a strain on the water storage reservoirs. Water production demand is three times normal levels. Residents and businesses are currently being asked to voluntarily…