Environment

Warning signs prior to city's multi-million dollar purchase of Manyberries oilfield

Medicine Hat, AB - There were warning signs in 2011 of what would become a years long and multi-million dollar legal fight between Medicine Hat and federal government over protections of an endangered...

Sep 19, 2019 Photo courtesy of the Alberta Wilderness Association - One of several billboards the Alberta Wilderness Association commissioned in the fall of 2011 advertising the dwindling numbers of sage grouse in Alberta.

City looking for new curbside recycling partner

Medicine Hat, AB - The City of Medicine Hat and Can Pak Environmental partnered up to bring curbside recycling to the gas city just over a year ago. That partnership is over. On Tuesday, the city anno...

Sep 18, 2019 Photo by Bob Schneider

City receives high marks for embarking on well abandonment program

Medicine Hat, AB - The city's move to launch an abandonment of more than 2000 gas wells is being widely praised as a forward-thinking move and industry-leading initiative."What the city is doing with ...

Sep 12, 2019

Gas City to abandon majority of gas wells through $90 million program

Medicine Hat, AB - The City of Medicine Hat will be spending $90 million over the next three years as it commences a program to abandon more than 2000 of its gas wells, officials announced on Wednesda...

Sep 11, 2019 Photo courtesy Bob Schneider - Brad Maynes describes the city's gas well abandonment program Wednesday at city hall.

Red Deer woman hit by semi while protesting

Red Deer - A Red Deer woman was hit by a semi while protesting last month outside a Red Deer pork processing facility.Kattrina Horner is a member of Red Deer Animal Save, an affiliate of The Save Move...

Sep 07, 2019 Kattrina Horner

Brazil, Bolivia assessing needs after Canada offers $15M aid for Amazon fires

OTTAWA - A Canadian official says Brazil and other Amazon-basin countries are considering Canada's offer of $15 million and equipment to help fight the fires destroying the South American rainforest. ...

Aug 27, 2019

Lethbridge College to embark on four-year potato irrigation study

Lethbridge, AB - A nearly $400,000 grant from the Canadian Agricultural Partnership will allow researchers at Lethbridge College to embark upon a four-year study to determine how watering and irrigati...

Aug 24, 2019 Dr. Willemijn Appels and her team (Photo Credit: Rob Olson Photgraphy via Lethbridge College)

Windfarm powering local economy

Bow Island, AB - It's a beehive of activity at the site of the Whitla Windfarm south of Bow Island as the 56 turbine project begins taking shape amongst the canola, lentil and wheat fields.Gravel road...

Aug 16, 2019

Crews continue to make discoveries at Dinosaur Provincial Park

Dinosaur Provincial Park, AB - Every year, thousands of tourists pass through Dinosaur Provincial Park.75 million years ago, it was over 50 different species of dinosaurs passing through those same ba...

Aug 15, 2019 Royal Tyrrell Museum crews working at Dinosaur Provincial Park (Photo by Ross Lavigne)

22 tornadoes in Alberta so far this year

RED DEER, AB -- With summer not yet over, Alberta has already seen its busiest tornado season in 20 years.Our province has had 22 confirmed touchdowns in 2019, according to Environment Canada, includi...

Aug 10, 2019 July 14 tornado near Crossfield (Photo: Kyle Brittain)