Alberta Environmental Network

Perspectives: On housing, Mayor Farkas promised a plan and hasn’t delivered - LiveWire Calgary Believe it or not, Mayor Jeromy Farkas is a member of the More Neighbours Calgary community. During the campaign, he regularly engaged with members on housing and city issues. One phrase came up again...

“Repeal and replace” was a campaign commitment. Making housing more affordable was the goal. It’s time for Mayor Farkas to stand by that commitment, or admit it was never the plan at all.

You can tell City Council to say no to sprawl by speaking at the upcoming public hearing on rezoning on March 23. To help you prepare, we are hosting a virtual training on March 19 at 7 p.m. Register today at aenweb.ca/civicrm/even...

Defend our natural spaces. Tell Calgary City Council to say no to sprawl Visit www.albertatalks.ca/defend.

Calgary’s wetlands and prime farmland are being gobbled up by urban sprawl. Send a letter to your City Councillor and ask them to protect our natural spaces and say no sprawl: albertatalks.ca/defend

AWA's Coal Conversations: Awareness, Advocacy, and Action - Alberta Wilderness Association When it comes to coal, there’s a lot of confusion about what’s actually going on in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes. So, let’s set the record straight — join us for an afternoon dedicated to increasing aware...

What: Coal Conversations, an afternoon dedicated to increasing awareness, fostering advocacy, and supporting action to protect the headwaters & Eastern Slopes regions of AB ⛰️
When: Saturday, Feb. 28 from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Register here: www.albertawilderness.ca/product/awa-...

Demand a public inquiry into Alberta’s oil and gas cleanup problem You pay your taxes. You pay your bills. You clean up your own mess. It’s the law. Why should oil and gas companies have a different set of rules? Oil and gas executives are breaking their promise to…

You clean up your mess. Oil companies won’t. 
 
Now, Alberta’s MAS could make taxpayers foot their $130B cleanup bill.
 
Enough. Demand a public inquiry into AB’s well cleanup crisis now.
 
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Trouble in the Headwaters - Film Tour This film tour brings Trouble in the Headwaters to communities across Alberta, pairing documentary screenings with live discussions on how land use decisions in mountain headwaters shape flooding, wat...

Save Our Slopes is hosting a series of film screenings and community discussions about how clear-cut logging and headwaters mismanagement threaten our water security. Visit the link below for more information and to find an event near you!

www.eventbrite.ca/cc/trouble-i...

Very important story about how oil and gas companies are stiffing communities and landowners throughout the province of millions of dollars of unpaid taxes and leases.

Join our friends at CPAWS Southern Alberta in calling on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to revoke a federal permit, issued in late 2025, which allows logging operations to destroy listed Critical Habitat in the Upper Oldman. Take action at: action.cpaws.org/page/184501/...

Eastern Slope Watershed Protection Assemblies A series of community assemblies across Alberta to learn, connect, and help shape a shared vision for protecting and restoring the Eastern Slopes headwaters

Join our friends from the Land Lovers Network for a series of community assemblies across Alberta to learn, connect, and help shape a shared vision for protecting and restoring the Eastern Slopes headwaters. Visit the link below to find an event near you!

www.eventbrite.com/cc/eastern-s...

War on the Rockies - The Struggle to Protect Alberta’s Eastern Slopes A short film screening spotlighting the growing resistance to industrial expansion on Alberta’s Eastern Slopes and a vision for protection.

On Jan. 17, join the Defenders of the Eastern Slopes for a free screening of "War on the Rockies," a 20-minute documentary showcasing the rising resistance to the expanding extractive and industrial takeover of Alberta’s Eastern Slopes. Details below!

www.eventbrite.ca/e/war-on-the...

Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show

Senior Alberta officials stalled release of coal mine pollution science: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-stal...

Clean up the MAS: How Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy allows a profitable industry to offload oil and gas cleanup to the public — Redwater Insights By Rob Schuwerk Redwater Head of Research

Some weekend reading: a new report released this week by research firm Redwater Insights details the Alberta government’s plans to allow a profitable industry to offload oil and gas cleanup to the public.

Visit www.redwaterinsights.org/newsandresea... to Read the "Clean up the MAS" report.

🏔️ Mountains are the backbone of life on Earth.

They supply freshwater to over half of humanity & sustain biodiversity. Yet, they are vulnerable to degradation from human activities & climate change.

On #MountainDay, we celebrate their beauty & their indispensable role for people and nature.

Excellent work on this series!

Dwight is a rural landowner in Two Hills, #Alberta.

12 years ago, he was forced to host a gas well on his land, on the condition that the industry fully close and clean it up when the well stopped producing.

That never happened.

Watch the full video 👉 ecojustice.ca/LandownerStories

#OrphanWells

Meet Teresa from Vermillion, #Alberta.

Teresa’s story is but one of thousands from Alberta landowners living with the fallout of leaking oil and gas wells and a #regulator that won’t protect them.

Learn more >> ecojustice.ca/news/landown...
TAKE ACTION >> www.cleanupyourmess.ca/write-your-mla

⏰ TOMORROW NIGHT: Don't let oil & gas companies stick Albertans with their cleanup bill! Oct 2 | 7PM | Online

Join close to 500 people already registered here: www.cleanupyourmess.ca/oct2-townhall

#CleanUpYourMess #AlbertaDeservesAccountability #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG #OilandGas #Energy

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