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In response to today’s release of the new Alberta Land-Use Framework (LUF), the Pembina Institute and the
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Northern Alberta have
provided the Government of Alberta with a checklist for its successful
implementation.
Media Contact: Richard Schneider (CPAWS), Steve Kennett
Topic Area: Oil Sands
The extraction and refining of bitumen from Canada’s oil sands is
taking a significant toll on migratory birds throughout North America. Danger in the Nursery: Impact on Birds of Tar Sands Oil Development in Canada’s Boreal Forest
outlines the current and projected effects of the oil sands industry on
migratory bird populations in Alberta’s boreal forest and along the
Western Hemisphere’s flyways.
Media Contact: Boreal Songbird Initiative, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
Alberta’s new Land-Use Framework could become one of the government’s most important policy and legislative initiatives in several decades, but its success is not guaranteed. A new report released today by the Pembina Institute and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Northern Alberta provides the Government of Alberta with a proposed implementation roadmap for the LUF.
Media Contact: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
A last-minute withdrawal by the oil sands industry from a negotiated
agreement on wetlands has prompted calls from environmental groups that
the Government of Alberta not give in to oil industry pressure, but
rather deliver on overdue rules to protect and conserve wetlands across
Alberta.
Media Contact: Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
Pembina Institute experts offered reaction to party policy proposals during the 2008 federal election.
Our views were presented from a strictly non-partisan perspective. Our
assessments were objective, fair and grounded in our past research and
the research of other leading thinkers.
Media Contact: Pembina Institute
Topic Area: Oil Sands
Today the Pembina Institute, the Toxics Watch Society of Alberta and
the Fort McMurray Environmental Association formally withdrew
from the Cumulative Environmental Management Association.
Media Contact: Chris Severson-Baker, Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
Today the Government of Alberta announced that it would spend $4 billion to address climate change.
Media Contact: Dan Woynillowicz
Topic Area: Oil Sands
The Energy Resources Conservation Board released a draft policy today that highlights a 40-year history of inadequate tailings management at oil sands mining operations in the boreal forest north of Fort McMurray.
Media Contact: Jennifer Grant, Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
The first ever report to provide an in-depth look at the environmental
impacts of upgrading oil sands bitumen in the Edmonton region was
released by the Pembina Institute today.
Media Contact: Mary Griffiths, Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
In an effort to prevent irreversible decline of species and
biodiversity in Alberta's Boreal Forest, industry can take important
steps to offset their environmental impacts.
Media Contact: Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
A comprehensive new report by the Pembina Institute has found that after 41 years of oil sands mining operations in northern Alberta only 0.2% or one square kilometer of disturbed land is certified as reclaimed.
Media Contact: Jennifer Grant, Dan Woynillowicz, Simon Dyer
Topic Area: Oil Sands
