Environment & Resource Services Facts

The Alberta government works with a broad range of stakeholders to develop provincial recovery plans for four species at risk: woodland caribou, grizzly bear, trumpeter swan and sage grouse.

About 13% of the province's land area is off-limits to energy development - environmentally sensitive areas including some parks and recreation areas.

The average width of oil and gas industry seismic lines has been reduced over the past twenty years from over 6 meters to 2.8 meters. In environmentally sensitive areas, seismic lines are very often less than 1 meter wide and where helicopter-assisted seismic programs are used lines may be undetectable.

Albertans own 81 per cent of the province's oil, natural gas and other mineral resources. Alberta Energy manages the sustained development of these resources in a responsible manner that maximizes long-term benefits to the province.