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Alberta's power line legislation will add new costs to power bills
Edmonton :: Canada | about 10 hours ago
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Controversial legislation that will limit public debate on plans to erect billions of dollars worth of new power lines across Alberta is the latest twist in a saga that reads like a cheap detective novel. Two years ago, Alberta's energy regulator was...
Tags: Albertans, powers line, Alberta Electric System Operator, Joe Anglin, Canada, Edmonton, Politics, Mel Knight, Alberta, Ed Stelmach
Gore's oil-sands comments 'preposterous,' Stelmach says
Toronto :: Canada | about 10 hours ago
Credibility A lberta Premier Ed Stelmach is rebutting comments environmentalist and former U.S. vice-president Al Gore made about Alberta's oil sands to reporters in Toronto this week. “The comparisons he's using are absolutely wrong.
Tags: YourAlberta YouTube, Ed Stelmach, Canada, Toronto, Alberta, Environment, Oil sands, Global warming, Al Gore, Politics of Alberta, Technology Internet, An Inconvenient Truth, YouTube
Meeting not about education cuts, Hancock insists
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 12 hours ago
Credibility Alberta reporter Amanda Lindhout has been freed, 15 months after she was snatched by gunmen in Somalia and held for ransom under 'extremely oppressive' conditions that included torture and beatings. A search is being conducted at the home of a woman...
Tags: Rexall Edmonton Indy, Somalia, Mogadishu, Strathcona County Alberta, Politics, Edmonton, Amanda Lindhout, Strathcona, Alberta, Rexall
Province chips in $12.5M for wildfire, windstorms
Edmonton :: Canada | about 13 hours ago
Credibility The Alberta government is giving Lamont, Sturgeon and Strathcona Counties $8 million to cover the some of the costs of fighting wildfires that hit the region in May. The wildfires prompted all three counties to declare local states of emergency and a...
Tags: Canada, Edmonton, Environment, Disaster Accident, Alberta
Environmental groups say Alberta may allow fresh water sales to highest bidder
Edmonton :: Canada | about 14 hours ago
Credibility Environmental groups say Alberta is considering whether to allow some of its dwindling fresh water supply to be sold to the highest bidder. The groups, including the Sierra Club of Canada, say the province should instead be promoting more conservation...
Tags: Continued Below Alberta Environment, environmental groups, highest bidder, fresh water, Canada, Edmonton, Politics, Auction, Alberta
Climate protesters occupy Ambrose constituency office
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 16 hours ago
Credibility Alberta reporter Amanda Lindhout has been freed, 15 months after she was snatched by armed gunmen in Somalia and held for ransom under 'extremely oppressive' conditions that included torture and beatings. The body of a man was found early Wednesday in...
Tags: Somalia, Mogadishu, Premier of Alberta, Politics, Edmonton, Amanda Lindhout, Rona Ambrose, Alberta, Ed Stelmach
Friends grateful for Lindhout release
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 18 hours ago
Credibility Friends and colleagues of Amanda Lindhout are expressing relief at the freelance journalist's release following 15 months in captivity in Somalia. A statement on the website of a Calgary white supremacist group linked to a recent homemade bomb attack...
Tags: University of Calgary, Amanda Lindhout, Somalia, Mogadishu, Education, Calgary, EnCana Corporation, Politics, Nigel Dawes, Daymond Langkow, Chuckwagon, Alberta, Rexall, Ed Stelmach
Tree-killing disease hits Calgary
Calgary :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility The disease is being diagnosed and treated in trees dotting city parks. Officials are warning homeowners to keep an eye on trees in their yards to prevent widespread infection, transmitted via airborne spores which disperse in early spring. Infection...
Tags: Calgary, Canada, Environment, Saskatoon, Land management, Populus, Trees, Salicaceae, Alberta, Labor, Health Medical Pharma, Aspen, Arborist, Pruning
Alberta urged to develop plan to eliminate poverty
Edmonton :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Twenty years after a unanimous House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by 2000, one in 12 children in Alberta still live in poverty, the lobby group Public Interest Alberta said Tuesday. Bill Moore-Kilgannon, executive director of...
Tags: Public Interest Alberta, Make Alberta Poverty Free, Gyslaine Clarke, Jim Gurnett, Bill Moore-Kilgannon, executive director, federal government, Bissell Centre, Canada, Edmonton, Politics, Social Issues, Alberta, Year of birth missing
Ottawa to put $63M toward carbon pipeline
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility ET The Canadian Press Ottawa says it plans to invest $63 million in a large-scale carbon capture and storage project in Alberta. Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt says the Alberta Trunk Line project will create jobs when they're needed the most,...
Tags: Alberta Trunk Line, Rexall Edmonton Indy, Canadian Press Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa, Business Finance, Alberta, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Environment, Politics, Climate change, Carbon capture and storage, Employment, Gross domestic product, Franchises, Carbon, Economist, Rexall, Market trends, Unemployment benefits, Business cycle, Employment law, Macroeconomics, Insurance, Labor, Ontario, Recessions, Recession, Carbon dioxide
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