During the August 15 M.D. of Taber Council Meeting, Richard Phillips, general manager for the Bow River Irrigation District, gave a presentation to Council on the Eyremore Dam Project.
When you think about renewable energy sources on the Prairies, your mind may go to the wind farms in southern Alberta, or even the Travers Solar Project, southeast of Calgary.
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how much clothing you need in a sustainable wardrobe, how fast you can build a mass timber building and why Alberta's hydro power has slowed to a trickle.
Hydro power in Alberta once made up around half the province's installed capacity, but today it provides three to five per cent of our electricity generation. Despite potential for more, hydro is almost missing from future projections with renewables.