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ECCC says samples were collected at the Kearl site north of Fort McMurray on March 8. Their team also met with the AER and Imperial Oil.

A leaking tailings pond at Imperial Oils Kearl Lake oilsands site likely harmed fish after collecting samples on March 8.

FORT McMURRAY — Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) has accused Premier Danielle Smith and the Alberta government of minimizing an…

When you think about renewable energy sources on the Prairies, your mind may go to the wind farms in southern Alberta, or even the Travers Solar Project, southeast of Calgary.

Some communities across the North have been testing and monitoring their water for years. An undisclosed tailings leak that came to light last week has those communities upping their game.

A northern Alberta Indigenous leader has accused Imperial Oil Ltd. of a nine-month coverup over a massive release of toxic oilsands tailings on land near where his band harvests food.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how much clothing you need in a sustainable wardrobe, how fast you can build a mass timber building and why Alberta's hydro power has slowed to a trickle.

Hydro power in Alberta once made up around half the province's installed capacity, but today it provides three to five per cent of our electricity generation. Despite potential for more, hydro is almost missing from future projections with renewables.

A woman in a small Alberta hamlet is trying to get equal health care in her community after struggling to get home care following her open-heart surgery in 2013.

(RNS) — A journey 'home' to a place my ancestors never saw again.