Long-time Alberta pollster and political analyst Janet Brown said while the province has long been split into three categories — Calgary, Edmonton and the rest of Alberta — the latter is a demographic she’ll pay close attention to this election to see if there are shifts to what’s been a huge voting bloc.
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Seal a seed within a droplet
The QuadApplicator earned its name from the fact that it can apply four main liquid products: fertilizer, herbicide, fungicide plus cover crop seeds ensconced in large droplets of prescribed liquid nutrient.
Water shortage advisories in Alta.
A cooler spring and below average snowpack have set the stage for slower-than-normal mountain runoff
A cooler than normal spring coupled with a below average mountain snowpack has added to problems across the southern Alberta irrigation network.
Alta.’s oil tax repayment plan called into doubt
Rural municipalities question the effectiveness of a recent directive to force energy companies to pay their property taxes
The Alberta Energy Regulator is a provincial regulatory body tasked to deal with unpaid municipal taxes by oil and gas companies. The provincial auditor says it is not being accountable, landowner advocacy groups claim it’s not following legislation and First Nations want it disbanded.
Alta. regulator says no to proposed solar project
Alberta Utilities Commission rules that bird death numbers would be too high if project near Frank Lake was to go ahead
The 1,500-acre Foothills Solar Project was to have been built near Frank Lake east of High River, Alta. However, sunlight reflecting off the panels could be confused for water by migratory and breeding birds, causing them to be killed or injured, said conservation specialist Ruiping Luo of the Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA).
Making the case for renewable energy
It is natural gas electricity generation with the exorbitant added cost of carbon capture and storage that will be uncompetitive and heavily subsidized by taxpayers.
Rural hospital disruptions continue
Asked during a media availability on April 6 in Brooks, Alta., whether the timeline for dealing with rural hospital service disruptions will be months or years, Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping was non-committal, stating the staffing issues remain an impediment.
Most rural Albertans oppose provincial police force: poll
“Overall, most Albertans are not supportive of either the dissolution of the RCMP or the creation of an Alberta Police Service,” a recent report stated.
Alta. oil wells can now be nominated for closure
Initiative will allow people and municipalities to suggest inactive well sites and infrastructure be closed and remediated
The Closure Nomination Program is part of a wider oil and gas site Inventory Reduction Program, which has set a quota of $700 million to be spent by industry to clean up unused sites in 2023. That quota is forecast to rise to nearly a billion by 2027.
Alberta lamb producers form shipping co-op
Western Canada Lamb Cooperative plans to find enough producers to fill a cattle liner and send it to Ontario or Quebec
Vice-chair of the new co-op, Claude Durupt, said the co-op isn’t about buying or selling lambs on its own; it’s simply trying to facilitate transportation.
