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Week ending 4 Dec 2009 Vol 24, No 16
Feature Article: The government is working itself up to hard decisions on allocation of water rights. (Reports on water allocation released - news release)
- Report from minister's advisory group on water management and allocation, PDF, 292 KB
- Alberta Water Council report on water allocation, PDF, 2.7 MB
- Alberta Water Research Institute report on water allocation, PDF, 532 KB
- Water for Life action plan, PDF, 932 KB
- Water for Life strategy, PDF, 1.2 MB
Also in this week's edition:
- New parties, new nonpartisan organizations - Alberta politics seem to be entering an era of splinter groups. (Reboot Alberta, Democratic Renewal Project, Preston Manning's political rethink project)
- MLAs freeze their pay for a second straight year, but from 2004 to 2009 their pay rose much faster than the earnings of most other Albertans.
- Government statistics suggest that public-sector pay did not keep up with private-sector pay during the recent boom.
- Four carbon capture projects are on tap now at a cost of $2 billion - why the Alberta government remains committed to them and not interested in the "climategate" scandal. (Copenhagen climate conference, Report says Jim Prentice has signalled that Ottawa will back "absolute caps" on carbon, Prentice still supports climate-change science)
- The province reconfigures its research agencies - we publish the roster of new boards of directors.
- What's helped Ken Kowalski last 30 years as an elected member of the legislature? (It's no surprise.)
- Alberta Health Services starts borrowing money, and will soon have to borrow a lot more. (Alberta Health Services 2nd-quarter budget update new release, AHS financial documents)
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