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Provide Information on Department
Written Responses from the Ministry of Environment and Parks Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Oct. 22, 2019) Topic: Provide information on department estimates on what Alberta’s emissions would have been without climate leadership action that had been implemented in the past four years? (Reference Transcript PA-83, Mr. Schmidt) • This information is available in the Climate Leadership Plan 2017-18 Progress Report available on the Open Data Portal at https://open.alberta.ca/publications/climate- leadership-plan-progress-report-2017-18 • Specifically, this information can be located in the “Ultimate Outcomes: Reduced GHG Emissions section” on page 17 of the report, excerpted below: o The Climate Leadership Plan (CLP) reference case (Table 1) represents current expectations for future GHG emissions based on 2018 federal and CLP climate policies, and on economic growth as projected in 2018. Emissions are forecast to decrease through 2018, then remain at about the same level even with increasing population, economic growth and oil sands production. Table 1 include Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)’s 2015 historical forecast (before the CLP) that is referenced in the Climate Change Advisory Panel’s Report to Government. The historical forecast is adjusted for ECCC data updates in 2018. Differences between the historical forecast and the CLP reference case include CLP’s projected GHG reductions, differences in economic growth and methodologies used to project emissions. The CLP reference case with potential reductions from innovation -
Final Sea Report
VOLUME 1: MILESTONE 3 - FINAL SEA REPORT Strategic Environmental Assessment of Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site It will be iniS May 2018 FINAL REPORT: Strategic Environmental Assessment of Wood Buffalo National Park COVERING LETTER Independent Environmental Consultants 70 Valleywood Drive, Suite 200 Markham, ON, L3R 4T5 Tel/Fax: 844-736-7369 PSX16-0057 30 May 2018 Parks Canada Government of Canada 145 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg MB R3B 0R9 Attention: Katherine Cumming National Manager of Impact Assessment, Natural Resource Conservation Branch RE: Final Strategic Environmental Assessment of Potential Cumulative Impacts of all Developments on the Outstanding Universal Value of Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site Independent Environmental Consultants (IEC) is pleased to submit this final Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) report. This two-volume report is being submitted in accordance with completion of Milestone 3 of the above noted Contract. Yours very truly, Independent Environmental Consultants Donald M. Gorber, PhD, P. Eng. President Page i FINAL REPORT: Strategic Environmental Assessment of Wood Buffalo National Park ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The journey to complete this Strategic Environmental Assessment has involved the gathering of a significant volume of available information, including both western science and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge. All of this has been accomplished through phone discussions with government staff, researchers, industrial associations and Non-Government Environmental Organizations, -
Environmentally Significant Areas of Alberta Volume 2 Prepared By
Environmentally Significant Areas of Alberta Volume 2 Prepared by: Sweetgrass Consultants Ltd. Calgary, AB for: Resource Data Division Alberta Environmental Protection Edmonton, Alberta March 1997 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Large portions of native habitats have been converted to other uses. Surface mining, oil and gas exploration, forestry, agricultural, industrial and urban developments will continue to put pressure on the native species and habitats. Clearing and fragmentation of natural habitats has been cited as a major area of concern with respect to management of natural systems. While there has been much attention to managing and protecting endangered species, a consensus is emerging that only a more broad-based ecosystem and landscape approach to preserving biological diversity will prevent species from becoming endangered in the first place. Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs) are important, useful and often sensitive features of the landscape. As an integral component of sustainable development strategies, they provide long-term benefits to our society by maintaining ecological processes and by providing useful products. The identification and management of ESAs is a valuable addition to the traditional socio-economic factors which have largely determined land use planning in the past. The first ESA study done in Alberta was in 1983 for the Calgary Regional Planning Commission region. Numerous ESA studies were subsequently conducted through the late 1980s and early 1990s. ESA studies of the Parkland, Grassland, Canadian Shield, Foothills and Boreal Forest Natural Regions are now all completed while the Rocky Mountain Natural Region has been only partially completed. Four factors regarding the physical state of the site were considered when assessing the overall level of significance of each ESA: representativeness, diversity, naturalness, and ecological integrity. -
Alberta Parks and Protected Areas
126 Andrew Lake 126 Future PRA (HRS) 126 Slave River Rapids Future PRA (HRS) 125 125 125 124 124 124 123 123 123 122 Colin-Cornwall 122 Lakes Wildland 122 121 121 121 120 La Butte Creek 120 Wildland 120 119 119 Kazan 119 Future Wildland 118 (HRS) Hot Pot NA (PNT) Fidler-Greywillow 118 Wildland Caribou Mountains Wildland 118 117 117 117 116 Egg Island 116 Ecological 116 Reserve 115 115 Wood Buffalo 115 National Park 114 114 (Alberta Portion) Fidler-Greywillow 114 Wildland 113 Hay-Zama Lakes 113 Wildland 113 112 112 Watt Mountain NA (PNT) 112 111 111 111 110 110 Ponton River 110 109 NA (PNT) 109 Ponton River Caribou River NA (PNT) South NA (PNT) Caribou River NA 109 108 Boyer NA (PNT) Child Lake Meadows NA Fort Vermilion PRA 108 Richardson 107 Rainbow Lake PRA 108 Future Wildland (HRS) Maybelle River 107 Machesis Lake PRA Wildland 107 106 106 R ic 105 Harper Creek NA 106 D h u a Athabasca Dunes n rd e s s o Ecological Res. 105 W n il R 105 d iv 104 la e n r d 104 104 103 103 Buffalo Tower PRA 103 102 102 101 102 Marguerite River 101 Peace River Wildland 13 12 101 5 100 11 10 9 4 3 2 8 7 7 6 6 5 4 3 10 9 8 2 100 25 24 14 13 12 11 23 22 21 20 19 19 18 17 16 15 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 100 25 24 23 22 21 20 99 99 99 98 Burning Sulphur NA (PNT) 98 Birch Mountains 98 Birch Mountains Wildland Future Expansion 97 Twin Lakes PRA (HRS) 97 Fort McMurray 97 96 96 96 95 Notikewin 95 Prov. -
James Gordon Nelson Fonds
James Gordon Nelson Fonds Extent: 56 m of textual records 8 CD-ROM Date: 1911-2013 1 Personal Series one located in S900 1.1 Biographical 1.2 Publications : books/reports 1.2.1 Access Heritage forum proceedings / edited by A. Gilbert, J.G. Nelson, et al. Heritage Resources Centre occasional paper 10, 1989 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SB 481 A2A22 1986 SC295 1.2.2 Arctic renewable resources : summary and recommendations / J.G. Nelson. Inuit Tapirisat of Canada Renewable Resources Project, 1975 (3.37) 1.2.3 Banff: a cultural-historical study of land use and management in a national park community to 1945 / Robert C. Scace. J.G. Nelson, series editor, 1968 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SB 484 C2S3 1968 SC1837 1.2.4 The Canadian National Parks : today and tomorrow : proceedings of a conference organized by The National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada and The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, October 9-15, 1968, vol. 2 / edited by J.G. Nelson and R.C. Scace, 1969 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SB 481 C35 SC2963 1.2.5 The Canadian National Parks : today and tomorrow : conference II : ten years later : Proceedings of a conference organized by the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada, and Parks Canada, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Banff, Alberta, October 8-13, 1978, vol. 1-2 / edited by J.G. Nelson et al, 1979 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SB 481 C35 1978 V.1-2 SC4088 1.2.6 Contact : journal of urban and environmental affairs, vol. 11 no. 1, 1979 - The Lake Erie peninsulas : management issues and directions / edited by J.G. -
Optimizing Alberta Parks
E20-G-0492 1 Goals • Redesign and optimize the Alberta parks system for current budget realities, visitation, and expectation of Albertans. • Ensure that sites retained by Parks Operations Division are aligned with it’s purpose and mandate. That is, that the recreation, tourism and conservation features of the site are proportional to the resources put into managing them. o A sub-goal is to maintain system ‘integrity’. That is, assess options for maintaining conservation and recreation framework goal, regardless of who manages. I.e., reduce duplication before rare/unique • Parks Operations Division: managing with excellence those parks and protected areas of provincial significance (recreation, tourism, and conservation values) with a commitment to a more integrated approach. • Develop rationalization and evaluation criteria to determine: - Which sites are provincially significant, serve an essential function to Albertans and need to be retained by AEP to manage. o Which of these sites are the ‘crown jewels’ and classic provincial parks to be managed by Parks Operation Division. o Which sites should be transferred to Lands Division to be managed as protected areas as part of the matrix of conservation-oriented lands in Alberta. - Which sites do not meet the threshold of provincial significance, are costly to manage with little return to Crown or value for Albertans, and should be either: o Deregulated to become vacant public land o Deregulated and divested to a third party (municipality, etc.) to run o Kept as-is but entered into a partnership model to run or operate (FOA, partnership, etc.) – assumption: would be held within Parks Operations Division Steps 1. -
Woodland Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou
COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Woodland Caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou Atlantic-Gaspésie Population Boreal Population Southern Mountain Population Northern Mountain Population Newfoundland Population in Canada ENDANGERED - ATLANTIC-GASPÉSIE POPULATION THREATENED - BOREAL POPULATION THREATENED - SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN POPULATION SPECIAL CONCERN - NORTHERN MOUNTAIN POPULATION NOT AT RISK - NEWFOUNDLAND POPULATION 2002 COSEWIC COSEPAC COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF COMITÉ SUR LA SITUATION DES ENDANGERED WILDLIFE ESPÈCES EN PÉRIL IN CANADA AU CANADA COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows: Please note: Persons wishing to cite data in the report should refer to the report (and cite the author(s)); persons wishing to cite the COSEWIC status will refer to the assessment (and cite COSEWIC). A production note will be provided if additional information on the status report history is required. COSEWIC 2002. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the woodland caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xi + 98 pp. Thomas, D.C., and D.R. Gray. 2002. Update COSEWIC status report on the woodland caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou in Canada, in COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Woodland Caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-98 pp. Previous report: Kelsall, J.P. 1984. COSEWIC status report on the woodland caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 103 pp. Production note: The Dawson’s caribou (R. -
ACFN Encroachment Final Report Sep 28 12
A NARRATIVE OF ENCROACHMENT EXPERIENCED BY ATHABASCA CHIPEWYAN FIRST NATION PREPARED FOR: ATHABASCA CHIPEWYAN FIRST NATION INDUSTRY RELATIONS CORPORTION PREPARED BY: P.M. (Patt) Larcombe, Symbion Consultants 415-70 Arthur Street Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 0G7 SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 i TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables .............................................................................................................................v List of Figures .............................................................................................................................v List of Acronyms .................................................................................................................... viii Executive Summary ................................................................................................................. ix 1.0 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 1-1 1.1 Qualifications of Writer .......................................................................................... 1-2 1.2 Objectives ............................................................................................................... 1-2 1.3 Methods .................................................................................................................. 1-3 1.4 Organization of Report ........................................................................................... 1-3 2.0 TERMINOLOGY AND FRAMEWORK ...................................................................... -
Fire Regimes of Western Boreal Canada and the Foothills of Alberta
1 Fire Regimes of Western Boreal Canada and the Foothills of Alberta A Discussion Document and Literature Review for the LANDWEB Project Chris Stockdale, PhD Candidate 4/2/2014 2 CONTENTS Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 3 The Landweb Study Area ................................................................................................................ 4 Terrestrial ecozones of the LANDWEB Project Area................................................................... 5 Report overview .......................................................................................................................... 6 Section 1: Fire Regimes ................................................................................................................... 7 Fire Regimes Defined .................................................................................................................. 7 Fire regime components ......................................................................................................... 8 Fire regime classification ...................................................................................................... 10 Fire regime methods ............................................................................................................. 12 Section 2: Fire Regimes of the LANDWEB Project area ................................................................ 15 Fire in forested ecosystems ................................................................................................. -
2016/17 Alberta Parks Capital Programs
2016/17 Alberta Parks Capital Programs Capital Maintenance and Renewal (CMR) Major Projects Region Park Description Central Blackfoot/Cooking Lake Trail System Upgrade Provincial Recreation Area Central Jarvis Bay Provincial Park Park Upgrade Central Miquelon Lake Provincial Lift station upgrade Park Central Miquelon Lake Provincial Staff Residence Park Central Miquelon Lake Provincial Water Plant Upgrade Park Central Miquelon Provincial Park Sewer Main Upgrade Central Pigeon Lake Provincial Park Water Tower Refurbishment Central Strathcona Science Provincial Park Upgrade Park Central Wabamun Lake Provincial Parking lots Expansion Park Kananaskis Kananaskis Region Program to upgrade campgrounds and day-use areas throughout Kananaskis Kananaskis Kananaskis Region Program to upgrade or replace vault toilets throughout Kananaskis Kananaskis Kananaskis Region Program to upgrade water and wastewater systems throughout Kananaskis Kananaskis Kananaskis Region Regional fuel systems upgrades Kananaskis Peter Lougheed Provincial Design work to replace cabins C & D at William Watson Lodge in 2017/18 Park Northeast Sr. Winston Churchill SWC Water-Sewer Upgrade Provincial Park Northwest Lesser Slave Lake Provincial BCBC power upgrade Park Northwest Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Boreal centre for Bird Conservation Project implementation beginning in 2016/17 in beginning implementation Project Park Northwest Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Devonshire Beach parking conversion Park Northwest Northwest Region Regional Outhouse Replacement/Upgrades Northwest -
Parks and Protected Areas
Tsu Túe Indian Reserve No. 196G 126 Thabacha Náre Indian Reserve No. 196A Andrew Lake Proposed PRA 126 Charles Lake No. 225 K'I Túe Indian Reserve No. 196D (HRS) 126 Slave River Rapids Proposed PRA (HRS) Li Dezé Indian Reserve No. 196C 125 125 Thebathi Indian Reserve No. 196 125 Tthe Jere Ghaili Indian Reserve No. 196B 124 124 UV35 124 Tsu K'adhe Túe Indian Reserve No. 196F 123 123 Hokedhe Túe Indian Reserve No. 196E Jackfish Point No. 214 123 Cornwall Lake No. 224 122 Bistcho Lake No. 213 Colin-Cornwall Collin Lake No. 223 122 Lakes Wildland 122 Tsu Nedehe Tue No. 196H 121 ?EJeré K'elni Kue No. 196I 121 121 120 La Butte Creek 120 Wildland 120 119 119 Kazan 119 Proposed Wildland 118 (HRS) Hot Pot NA (PNT) Fidler-Greywillow 118 Wildland Caribou Mountains Wildland 118 117 117 117 Peace Point No. 222 116 Egg Island 116 Ecological Upper Hay River No. 212 116 Reserve 115 115 Wood Buffalo 115 National Park Sandy Point No. 221 114 Amber River No. 211 114 (Alberta Portion) Fidler-Greywillow 114 Wildland 113 Devil's Gate No. 220 Hay-Zama Lakes 113 Wildland Allison Bay No. 219 112 Hay Lake No. 209 113 Zama Lake No. 210 112 Dog Head No. 218 Watt Mountain NA (PNT) 112 111 111 UV58 111 Chipewyan No. 201B 110 Chipewyan No. 201A 110 Rainbow Lake UV58 Ponton River 109 110 Chipewyan No. 201 NA (PNT) Beaver Ranch No. 163B High Level Child Lake No. 164A Fox Lake No. 162 109 Ponton River Caribou River NA (PNT) South NA (PNT) Chipewyan No. -
Lower Athabasca Regional Plan Digital
IES NORTHWEST TERRITOR B A Tsu Nedehe Tue I.R. 196H ?Ejere K'elni Kue I.R. 196I WOOD BUFFALO NATIONAL PARK 1 1 S A FORT CHIPEWYAN S K A T C ! FORT VERMILION H E W 2 A 2 N 5 4 FORT MACKAY NEW CONSERVATION AND RECREATION/TOURISM AREAS IN THE LOWER ATHABASCA REGION 3 FORT MCMURRAY 4 Conservation Areas DRAPER Wildland Provincial Parks SAPRAE CREEK 1 Kazan Wildland Park TES 2 R i c hardson Wildland Park GREGOIRE LAKE ESTA 3 ANZAC 3 Gipsy-Gordon Wildland Park 4 Birch Mountains Provincial Wildland Park (Expansion) C Public Land-use Zones La Loche 5 Birch River Conservation Area D Road 6 Dillon River Conservation Area Recreation/Tourism Areas Provincial Recreation Areas A S l ave River Rapids JANVIER SOUTH B Andrew Lake E C Gregoire Lake F D Christina Crossing E Cowper Lake CONKLIN F Crow Lake G Goodwin Lake 5 H Clyde Lake 6 I Winefred Lake G I Public Land Areas for Recreation/Tourism H 1 Lake Athabasca 2 Richardson 3 Athabasca River COLD LAKE AIR 4 Clearwater River 5 House River WEAPONS RANGE Lakeland Country Iconic Tourism Destination Base Data LAC LA BICHE Land-use Framework Regional Boundary First Nations Reserve SCA Green Area Métis Settlement ATHABA White Area Military Reserve Provincial Park and Protected Area Hydrography COLD LAKE National Park Provincial Highway PELICAN City, Town, Urban Service Area Other Population Centres NARROWS BONNYVILLE GLENDON E BEACH 0 25 50 100 BONNYVILL Kilometres Transverse Mercator Projection (10TM) North American Datum 1983 (NAD83) SMOKY LAKE SOURCE INFORMATION: Conservation Areas: Alberta Sustainable Resource Development and Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation Recreation/Tourism Areas: Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation and Alberta Sustainable Resource Development RED WATER ST.