Author: Clint Curtis

Flowing from the Rocky Mountains, Alberta’s Red Deer River snakes through the Canadian Badlands, one of the world’s great dinosaur fossil regions. Since the late 1800s, more than 1,000 complete skeletons of extinct dinosaurs have been found here. Where are dinosaur bones found in Alberta? A hadrosaur fossil found in Alberta’s badlands was so well […]

In the 1970s, Alberta was hit by a modern-day gold rush. Oil prices soared and adventurers flooded into the province in a frenzied hunt to strike it rich. When did the oil industry start in Alberta? Oil is discovered in Alberta’s remote northwest. In 1965, the Banff Oil Company drills successful wells in this region. […]

Alberta’s residential and commercial sectors account for 17%. The remaining 83% of natural gas consumed in Alberta is used by the industrial, electrical generation, transportation and other sectors. Natural gas is also an important raw material for the province’s oil sands and electric power-generation industries. Why is natural gas important to Alberta? Natural gas and […]

Alberta is the third largest producer of electricity in Canada and has an estimated generating capacity of 16 330 megawatts (MW). About 89% of electricity in Alberta is produced from fossil fuels– approximately 36% from coal and 54% from natural gas. How is the fossil fuel industry important to Alberta? Overview. The responsible development of […]

The Alberta OPD program is an easy and stress-free way to repay all of your debts, even government debt such as income tax and student loans. If you qualify for this program, you can be debt-free in five years. Find out how by scheduling a free, confidential appointment to talk about debt repayment. How long […]

Based on this work, in December 2017, Alberta Transportation reduced the starting frost depth threshold used in its winter weight policy from 1 m to 0.75 m. How far down is the frost line in Alberta? “The frost depth is actually in the order of 10 feet (3 metres), which is where many of the […]