Climate

“I am excited about this program. I am excited for this program to be rolled out. I think it is an excellent opportunity for people to have the change they want but are fiscally unable to do so.”

“If there's a good crop, they’ll literally just park themselves into a shrub bush and often engorge on them. It goes through their system pretty fast and sugars get extracted.

“It is heartbreaking. It is one of the best-known huts in Canada, you can even argue North America. It has been associated with the Alpine Club of Canada for many years. For everyone in the club, guests who have stayed there, staff and a vast number of volunteers, it is something that everyone has a difficult time with.”

“We should all know that climate change is an imminent threat to this park and our home and our lives as we know it, as well as our livelihoods, and there’s absolutely an economic cost that’s going to come with the very real effects of climate change.”

“It seems like we’re about a month behind what we would normally see for snow amounts."

“There’s less food up high so we have more bears staying in the valley later and that’s coinciding with an increase in tourist use,” said Laura Nicholson, resource management officer for Banff National Park.

“There's no sort of co-ordinated national approach or national standards, laws, regulations,” said Ryan Ness, director of adaptation at the Canadian Climate Institute.

“We have infrastructure already in place,” said Amit Kumar, professor at the University of Alberta and Alberta Innovates Associate industrial research chair in energy and environmental systems engineering.

The long-haul trucking industry is currently being examined as the future of hydrogen, while electric vehicles are being pegged for personal use.

Most of the hydrogen in the province is produced from natural gas and the process emits C02, which is currently released into the atmosphere.