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Conservation advocates and experts are concerned a proposal for a Calgary-to-Banff passenger train is chugging along without addressing some key environmental

Conservation advocates and experts are concerned a proposal for a Calgary-to-Banff passenger train is chugging along without addressing some key environmental issues in and around the national park.

Conservation advocates and experts are concerned a proposal for a Calgary-to-Banff passenger train is chugging along without addressing some key environmental issues in and around the national park.

Concerns include wildlife deaths along the rail line — particularly grizzly bears, which have been hit and killed on the existing track — and the fragmentation of wildlife habitat in Alberta's already busy Bow Valley.

Alberta Environment and Parks is spending $8.4 million over three years to install vault toilets, add bear-proof food lockers and grade roads at four popular spots in the Kootenay Plains

A large portion of land near the Livingston mountain range which has been used for cattle ranching by the same family for five generations. Now, thanks to a contract with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, it will be protected against future development.

A shutout on new coal projects in Alberta has seen stock prices plunge but the door is not closed completely for billionaire Gina Rinehart.

A shutout on new coal projects in Alberta has seen stock prices plunge but the door is not closed completely for billionaire Gina Rinehart.

A shutout on new coal projects in Alberta has seen stock prices plunge but the door is not closed completely for billionaire Gina Rinehart.

A shutout on new coal projects in Alberta has seen stock prices plunge but the door is not closed completely for billionaire Gina Rinehart.