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Environmental groups turn to Alberta Court of Appeal after Alberta Energy Regulator CEO cancels public coal hearing  

Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) and Northern Alberta Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS NAB) call for the…
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AER CEO claims unprecedented power to cancel public hearing for coal mine  

CPAWS Northern Alberta and AWA on AER decision to cancel Summit Inc. Mine 14 Public Hearing.…
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CPAWS Northern Alberta celebrates legal protection of Gipsy Gordon Wildland Provincial Park!

CPAWS Northern Alberta is celebrating the legal protection of the Gipsy Gordon Wildland Provincial Park – which permanently protects 186,000…
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CPAWS Northern and Southern Alberta Release Survey Guide for Plan For Parks Phase 2

In June, the Government of Alberta released the new draft Alberta Plan for Parks and launched a phase 2 public…
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New Poll: Conservation is a Core Value, not Fringe Concern, for Most Albertans 

New polling commissioned by CPAWS Northern and Southern Alberta paints a picture of nature conservation as a core value held…
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Open Letter to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative on Logging in Southern Mountain Caribou Habitat

Read the Full Report Read the Executive Summary See the Letter  For more information, contact:  Tara Russell, Program Director, CPAWS Northern [email protected]…
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Environmental Groups publish new report on impacts of proposed logging on at-risk caribou

A new report from CPAWS Northern Alberta, the Alberta Wilderness Association and the Alberta Chapter of the Wildlife Society highlights…
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CPAWS Northern Alberta Gets Full Participation in Summit Coal Inc.’s Mine 14 Hearing

CPAWS Northern Alberta along with the Alberta Wilderness Association, Driftpile Cree Nation, Louis Bull Tribe, Sucker Creek First Nation, and…
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Proposed Alberta government plan would wipe out two southern mountain caribou populations

The Government of Alberta released the draft Upper Smoky Sub-Regional plan which, if approved, would enable the U.S.A.-based timber company…
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CPAWS Northern and Southern Alberta Statement on 2025 Alberta Budget

CPAWS comments on the 2025 Government of Alberta Budget and its impact on conservation in the province.…
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CST Canada Coal Limited (CST Coal) receives a ‘slap on the wrist’ from the Alberta Energy Regulator for releasing mine wastewater into the Smoky River

CPAWS Northern Alberta is disappointed to learn that CST Coal will be fined a nominal fee of $9,000 by the…
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The charges against Imperial Oil are necessary but do not substitute for reform of the provincial energy regulator

Joint Statement by Indigenous and environmental groups on the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) laying nine charges against Imperial Oil for…
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