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  • Home Upgrades Program

    For many lower-income households in Alberta, high energy bills are driven by older, inefficient homes that are expensive to heat and maintain. These households face a disproportionate energy burden, often spending a higher share of their income on utilities while lacking access to the capital required for upgrades. Without the means to make upgrades, energy…

  • Environmental Achievements of the City of St. Albert

    The City of St. Albert has been committed to reducing the community’s carbon footprint, becoming more resilient to the effects of climate change, and becoming a more sustainable city. The City of St. Albert has been accomplishing this in the following ways: The Clean Energy Improvement Program has committed $5,017,400 in funding for residents to…

  • First Canadian Municipal Long Range Electric Buses

    In 2017, St. Albert became the first municipality in Canada to own a fleet of long-range electric buses. Mayor Cathy Heron, who served as a councillor from 2009 until being elected mayor in 2017, says the move fits in with residents’ concerns for the environment. “They would have pushed us if we hadn’t gone down…

  • Riel Park Redevelopment Project

    A 10-year project to reclaim and revitalize marginal municipal land—the largest project of its kind in St. Albert’s history—has become an opportunity to enhance a former landfill with sports and recreational facilities, protect the Sturgeon River and to put the City’s natural environment pillar of sustainability into action. Riel Park went from a sewage lagoon…