Liam Harrap

Out of the thousands of oil facilities that dot Brazeau County, one stands out from the rest. Recover Energy Services Inc. has been taking drilling waste and extracting a base oil from it to make an oil-based mud, since November 2021.

Residents from the Village of Ryley are the first in Alberta to use recall legislation to get rid of an elected official. 

With its river valley, Edmonton has a lot of good habitat for ants, says Zachary Liu, a second-year biology student at McGill University in Montreal. Liu owns a business called Canada Ant Colony.

In Edwin Erickson’s workshop, there’s row after row of busted accordions. Some need tuning, others have crooked buttons or blown out bellows. Erickson has been fixing accordions like these for more than 50 years.

Since 2016, Alberta has harvested approximately 20 million cubic metres of timber each year, which is enough to fill 8,000 Olympic swimming pools, but the proportion of that from salvaged logging can vary, according to data from the Alberta government. Some years, fire-killed trees make up less than one per cent of the total harvest, but some years it’s substantially more. Between May, 2019 to April, 2020, fire-killed trees were almost 20 per cent of the total harvest.

While they make life possible, scientists say microbes are not included in most climate modelling and emission reduction goals, which is problematic.

While there are still five active coal mines in Alberta, only one sells coal to the general public — Dodds Coal Mine, located near the village of Ryley, about 100 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.

B.C. Hydro started filling the Site C dam reservoir last month. As the $16-billion hydroelectric megaproject gets closer to becoming operational, worries persist — in Alberta and beyond — that it could lower water levels in the Peace River and other rivers downstream.

The Canadian National Railway (CN) announced it’s moving its crew change terminal out of Jasper. One-third of the buildings in the mountain town were burned down by wildfire in July.

Beverly Tupper, from the remote northern Alberta community of Fitzgerald, was sent to Edmonton on a medevac flight. The flight was from Fort Smith, N.W.T., and Alberta doesn't cover medical transports from outside the province.