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Published: Apr 16, 2008
By: Dan Woynillowicz, Steve Kennett, Water Matters
This report discusses how the government has advanced numerous strategic initiatives in relative isolation from one another. It concludes that multiple strategies that individually address air, land, water and the activities that affect them will ultimately prove unsuccessful unless they are integrated through a common, legislated regional planning process.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Area: Energy Watch, Oil Sands
Published: Apr 7, 2008
By: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Steve Kennett
This checklist by the Pembina Institute and the Canadian Parks and
Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is a tool to accompany our companion report entitled Alberta by Design: Blueprint for an Effective Land-Use Framework which contains details and regional case studies on the issue of land use in Alberta.
The Government of Alberta initiated the development of the Alberta Land-Use Framework in response to the acknowledged need for a new approach to managing land use. This checklist presents the core principles and a list of the key elements that can be used to objectively assess the Alberta government's Land-Use Framework once it is released.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Area: Energy Watch, Oil Sands
Published: Mar 28, 2008
By: Alison Cretney, Greg Brown, Jaisel Vadgama
High mineral prices and investor-friendly policies are driving new mining development across Northwest British Columbia. This primer considers potential impacts from one proposed project: Fortune Minerals' Mt. Klappan Coal Mine, located in the "sacred headwaters" region. The project would open pristine wilderness to new activity and substantially increase British Columbia's production of coal — one of the most concentrated sources of climate change pollution.
Publication Type: Briefing Notes, Summaries & Fact Sheets
Topic Area: British Columbia: Mining
Published: Mar 19, 2008
By: Cherise Burda
This report, the sixth in a series of Ontario progress reports stresses the need for Ontario to integrate its fairly ambitious climate change targets into planning policy. Ontario has shown leadership in its land use planning policy and its stated commitments to addressing climate change, but problems and shortcomings in its approach may keep Ontario from meeting its own goals.
Publication Type: Reports, Backgrounders & Position Papers
Topic Area: Ontario Electricity, Sustainable Energy
