Most Aurora College classes began last Tuesday, but for the adventurous students enrolled in the Environment and Natural Resources Technology Diploma program at Thebacha Campus, the real learning began weeks ago in the wilderness at the NRTP camp at Tsu Lake 65 km north of Fort Smith.
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First Nations and environmentalists repeated their condemnation of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan (LARP) last week, as the updated draft LARP was re-released following months of extensive public consultation by the Alberta government.
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It may have been decades in the making, but the newly proposed Wildlife Act for the NWT was defeated with only minutes to go in the NWT legislature last Wednesday due to a stand-off among certain Aboriginal governments and the pressure of an upcoming election on some MLAs.
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The Edmonton Provincial Courthouse was told that Norwegian energy giant Statoil ASA would be pleading guilty to environmental infractions related to its business within the Alberta oilsands last Wednesday.
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A new plan for monitoring the health of Alberta’s environment was developed and put into action in February of this year.
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As costs of the proposed Site C dam on the Peace River continue rising and British Columbia’s Energy Minister vows to build the dam, a northeastern BC group wants the federal government to ensure a proper environmental assessment of Site C gets done.
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