Fox Creek, Alberta

Alberta Forest Alliance director Ray Hilts was highly recommended and the board discussed the option of contacting him in the future. It was agreed that the sooner the ... Fox Creek School principal Ian Baxter went in front of the board to propose an exciting idea for his students. The project would allow a ...

Meanwhile, Alberta Newsprint will invest $150 million into a pipeline for its tree-heated water that will be used for fracking. ... With the imminent closure of the Fox Creek Airport, Rennie added that he would be talking with the Municipal District of Greenview to help share the Whitecourt Airport costs since ...

The Whitecourt area currently has the most snowmobile trails in Alberta. The trails between Whitecourt, Fox Creek and Swan Hills has also been connected together into the Golden Triangle due to the increased demand for snowmobiling and to keep the boreal forests from being disturbed too much, ...

... Leduc, Camrose, Wetaskiwin, Tofield, Spruce Grove, Morinville, Mayerthorpe, Evansburg, Whitecourt, Edson, Fox Creek and Swan Hills, while a blowing snow advisory is in effect for Lloydminster, Wainwright, Vermilion and Provost. While most of central Alberta deals with periods of heavy snow Saturday ...

A recent analysis of 300 hydraulically fractured wells near Fox Creek, Alberta, found that a modest injection of 10,000 cubic metres (2.6 million gallons) can cause an earthquake in geological formations containing faults. The larger the volume of fluids injected underground, the greater the number of ...

Storm on the Way to Alberta ... Snow is headed for Alberta. ... Grande Cache, Leduc - Camrose - Wetaskiwin - Tofield, Lloydminster - Wainwright - Vermilion - Provost, Spruce Grove - Morinville - Mayerthorpe - Evansburg, Westlock - Barrhead - Athabasca, and Whitecourt - Edson - Fox Creek - Swan Hills.

Ensign Energy Services Inc. has drilled Canada's longest land-based well to-date, with a measured depth of 7,770 metres. Completed in Fox Creek in January in partnership with Shell Canada, the well was drilled by an Ensign ADR 1500S super spec rig. Despite the well's record depth, the time from spud ...

SYDNEY, N.S. — A 64-year-old Sydney River man has been jailed for 120 days after pleading guilty to his sixth conviction of impaired driving. Keith Wayne MacLeod pleaded to the offence which occurred last year in Fox Creek, Alta. The court was told that between 1990-91, MacLeod recorded five ...

Ensign Energy Services Inc. has drilled Canada's longest land-based well to-date, with a measured depth of 7,770 metres. Completed in Fox Creek in January in partnership with Shell Canada, the well was drilled by an Ensign ADR 1500S super spec rig. Despite the well's record depth, the time from spud ...

Ryan Schultz has been studying earthquakes in the Fox Creek, Alberta area since they started in December 2013. The seismologist -- who works at the Alberta Geological Survey (a branch of the Alberta Energy Regulator) and with the University of Alberta -- wanted to better understand what was causing ...

An elderly man was killed in one of two major collisions in northwestern Alberta on Saturday. It happened around 1 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of Highway 43, approximately 20 kilometres east of Fox Creek in the valley near the Iosegun River. As many as 17 vehicles, including semi tractor trailers, were ...

According to the Alberta Energy Regulator, which rarely reports earthquakes on a timely basis, the fracking industry induced 264 earthquakes near Fox Creek in 2017 alone. It is the only area in Alberta where the province's regulations on fracking and seismic hazards currently apply. “Seismology experts at ...