1999-2008 News Archive
2012-02-03 AWA News Release: Beyond Monitoring - Responsible Management Needed for Oilsands Wildlife and Wetlands Impacts
Today, forty five years after the first tar sands mines started, the federal government has finally taken steps to introduce credible monitoring for contaminants and habitat degradation from oilsands development. Alberta Wilderness Association believes that long-overdue monitoring of Alberta’s oilsands impacts is a step in the right direction, but monitoring itself will not fix any of the issues which have so bedeviled the industry for the past few years.
2011-12-09 AWA News Release: Time to protect Alberta's Castle and Bighorn on International Mountain Day
On the occasion of International Mountain Day, December 11, Alberta Wilderness Association calls on the Government of Alberta to secure important water sources and grizzly habitat by protecting the Castle and Bighorn areas of Alberta for future generations.
2011-11-25 AWA News Release: Habitat focus needed for Alberta's caribou
Parks Canada’s newly-announced Southern Mountain Caribou Conservation Strategy, including a captive breeding and reintroduction program, will fail in Alberta without a stronger focus on habitat protection and restoration. Alberta Wilderness Association calls on federal and provincial governments to deal with the root cause of Alberta’s plummeting caribou populations: habitat destruction by human disturbance.
2011-11-24 AWA News Release: Last chance to save Canada's most endangered species?
Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) and a coalition of environmental groups are calling on federal Environment Minister Peter Kent to urgently take the steps necessary to prevent the imminent extinction of the greater sage-grouse in Canada.
2011-05-13 Rainbow I Pipeline Spill: AWA calls for full investigation
The recent failure of the 45-year old Plains All American Rainbow pipeline in northwestern Alberta, which discharged 4.5 million litres (28,000 barrels) of crude oil into boreal wetlands and forest, is only one such example. The 220,000 barrel-a-day Rainbow line, owned by a Canadian subsidiary of Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline L.P., developed a leak on April 28 that resulted in the biggest spill the province has seen since 1975.
2011-05-10 AWA News Release: Rainbow Spill - Who Will Address Alberta's Pipeline Risks?
The recent failure of the 45-year old Plains All American Rainbow pipeline, which discharged 4.5 million litres (28,000 barrels) of crude oil into boreal wetlands and forest in northwestern Alberta, raises significant concerns about pipeline integrity and operator and regulatory response.
2011-04-05 AWA News Release: Northeast Alberta Wilderness Sacrificed
Breaking its promise to develop oilsands in an environmentally responsible way, the Government of Alberta in its newly released Lower Athabasca Regional Plan has fallen far short of its own and international targets for protecting northeast Alberta’s ecosystems for future generations.
2011-02-14 AWA News Release: ALSA Does Not Extinguish Property Rights
An important clarification about the Alberta Land Stewardship Act (ALSA) and property rights by University of Calgary law professor Nigel Bankes has confirmed that ALSA does not extinguish property rights.
