Reading Time: 4 minutes Interpretive programs can improve visitors’ attitudes about nature-friendly behaviour, but longer-term effects less certain: U of A researchers
Tag: alberta
Energy industry investment cools dramatically
Reading Time: 3 minutes The oil price crash of recent weeks has triggered a wave of huge exploration and production capital expenditure cuts
UCP shouldn’t take handouts from struggling taxpayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Federal wage subsidy should go to struggling Albertans, not to a political party with plenty of money in the bank
Alberta spending restraint must start with MLAs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, the UCP’s rhetoric has been on-point but its bite hasn’t matched its bark
Manufacturing a key driver of Alberta economy
Reading Time: 2 minutes Total annual revenue was up 7.1 per cent in 2018 compared to 2017, reaching $80.4 billion, but still four per cent below peak set in 2014
Cenovus Energy targets 30% decrease in emissions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Also plans $1.5 billion of additional spending with Indigenous businesses and reclaim 1,500 decommissioned well sites
Energy production in Canada declining, says StatsCan
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta produced 18.3 million cubic metres of crude oil and equivalent products in October, down 4.9 per cent, as a result of reduced oil sands activity
Alberta’s small business confidence lowest in Canada
Reading Time: 2 minutes The CFIB barometer of business confidence in the province dropped by 6.4 points to 38.3, the lowest in the country
October retail sales in Alberta end two-year slide
Reading Time: 2 minutes An increase of 0.4 per cent came after retail sales in the province had fallen below levels last reported in August 2017
Cold, wet weather stings Prairies’ honey production
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fell by 35 per cent in Alberta, 1.9 per cent in Manitoba and by 1.4 per cent in Saskatchewan