To manage spring runoff, there will be a controlled increase in flow on the Elbow River for the next day or so. Water treatment operations are a significant driver around the need to increase flows to 50 cms on lower Elbow. Flows will appear elevated and are triggering a couple of pathway closures but should not be problematic. The official advisory from the City is below. Calgary issues boating advisory […]

This week Fort McMurray is experiencing exactly what has been weighing so heavily on our minds: a flood and evacuation during COVID-19. 15,000 people have been evacuated and emergency crews have performed more than 200 rescues in areas where people were ordered to leave. “This is, to my understanding, the worst flood that this region has experienced in 100 years… This is a one-in-100-year flood… Just unfortunately, it is this […]

The Tsuut’ina Nation have officially withdrawn all objections to the Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir (SR1). This is HUGE news! The Tsuut’ina’s withdrawal of their Statement of Concern removes a significant regulatory barrier for Alberta Transportation and eliminates one of the larger opponents we’d expected to face at the public hearing. In the official notice dated April 1, 2020, the Tsuut’ina Nation declares: Tsuut’ina hereby withdraws all of its objections in relation […]

SR1 update: Federal review moves to Round 2, provincial hearing delayed, COVID-19 impacts We’ve been fairly quiet since our last Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir update in January, but plenty has been happening behind the scenes and there’s good news to report!  Federal regulatory review Finally! The Round 1 responses have been deemed complete and the Round 2 questions have been issued. AT’s submitted its final Round 1 responses in December 2019 and the Impact Assessment Agency […]