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Fine Particulate (PM2.5) From Sundance, Keephills and Genesee vs Sheerness and Battle River

4.04 t-10.42 t from 2023

Sundance (Parkland County) · Latest: 2024

Latest data: 2024

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Tonnes of fine particulate matter 2.5 micrometres or smaller (PM2.5). Sundance released 1,022 t in 2014 and 4 t in 2024; Keephills 578 t at its 2018 peak and 12 t in 2024; Genesee 287 t in 2023 and 29 t in 2024. Sheerness and Battle River were at 5 t and 2 t in 2024. Releases to air reported each year to Environment and Climate Change Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory (every air category summed), 2005 on, for the three power plants around Wabamun Lake (Sundance and Keephills in Parkland County; Genesee just across the North Saskatchewan in Leduc County; the Wabamun plant until it closed in 2010) and for Alberta's two other large coal plants that switched to natural gas, Sheerness near Hanna and Battle River near Forestburg. A year with no line is a year the plant reported none (below NPRI's threshold or no longer released), not a measured zero. Figures are what each operator reports.

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Sulphur Dioxide From Sundance, Keephills and Genesee vs Sheerness and Battle River

Tonnes of sulphur dioxide (SO2). Sundance released 30,113 t in 2014, 1,084 t in 2021 and 1.2 t in 2024; Keephills 14,729 t in 2014, 5,475 t in 2021 and 3.5 t in 2024. Genesee stayed near 15,000 t a year until 2023 (14,677 t) and released 2,654 t in 2024. Sheerness and Battle River last reported SO2 in 2021 (1,919 t and 403 t). Releases to air reported each year to Environment and Climate Change Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory (every air category summed), 2005 on, for the three power plants around Wabamun Lake (Sundance and Keephills in Parkland County; Genesee just across the North Saskatchewan in Leduc County; the Wabamun plant until it closed in 2010) and for Alberta's two other large coal plants that switched to natural gas, Sheerness near Hanna and Battle River near Forestburg. A year with no line is a year the plant reported none (below NPRI's threshold or no longer released), not a measured zero. Figures are what each operator reports.

Environment · Parkland CountyAnnual

Nitrogen Oxides From Sundance, Keephills and Genesee vs Sheerness and Battle River

Tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NOx, as nitrogen dioxide). Gas burning still makes NOx, so unlike sulphur dioxide it falls but does not vanish: Sundance from 29,572 t in 2014 to 903 t in 2024, Keephills from 13,180 t to 2,340 t, Genesee from 15,145 t in 2023 to 6,346 t in 2024. Sheerness and Battle River reported 1,435 t and 924 t in 2024. Releases to air reported each year to Environment and Climate Change Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory (every air category summed), 2005 on, for the three power plants around Wabamun Lake (Sundance and Keephills in Parkland County; Genesee just across the North Saskatchewan in Leduc County; the Wabamun plant until it closed in 2010) and for Alberta's two other large coal plants that switched to natural gas, Sheerness near Hanna and Battle River near Forestburg. A year with no line is a year the plant reported none (below NPRI's threshold or no longer released), not a measured zero. Figures are what each operator reports.

Environment · Parkland CountyAnnual

Mercury From Sundance, Keephills and Genesee vs Sheerness and Battle River

Kilograms of mercury and its compounds. Mercury fell twice: first around 2011, when Alberta began requiring coal plants to capture it (Genesee from 185 kg in 2010 to 30 kg in 2014), and again as the plants stopped burning coal: Sundance from 318 kg in 2005 to 1.9 kg in 2024, Keephills from 110 kg to 5.4 kg. Genesee last reported mercury for 2023 (22 kg); Sheerness and Battle River stopped reporting it after 2020 and 2019. Releases to air reported each year to Environment and Climate Change Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory (every air category summed), 2005 on, for the three power plants around Wabamun Lake (Sundance and Keephills in Parkland County; Genesee just across the North Saskatchewan in Leduc County; the Wabamun plant until it closed in 2010) and for Alberta's two other large coal plants that switched to natural gas, Sheerness near Hanna and Battle River near Forestburg. A year with no line is a year the plant reported none (below NPRI's threshold or no longer released), not a measured zero. Figures are what each operator reports.

Environment · Parkland CountyAnnual

North Saskatchewan River at Highway 759: Daily Flow Against the Record for the Date

Daily mean flow of the North Saskatchewan River at the Highway 759 bridge west of Genesee, on Parkland County's southern edge (Water Survey of Canada station 05DE010), in cubic metres per second. The thick line is the newest year the Water Survey has approved (2024 as of November 2026); the thin lines are the lowest, median and highest flow recorded on the same calendar day from 2007 to the year before. Days recorded since October 2026 from Environment and Climate Change Canada's real-time feed follow it, provisional until approved. The gauge runs in the open-water season only, roughly March to October, so winter is blank. 2024 ran below the median on 154 of its 196 days; on June 20 it carried 150 m³/s against a median of 532, and on 11 days in late July and August it was at or below the lowest flow on record for the date. Flow here is partly regulated by the Bighorn and Brazeau dams upstream.

Environment · Parkland CountyDaily

Beach Samples Over Alberta's Blue-Green Algae Benchmark: Wabamun Lake vs Other Edmonton-Area Lakes

Share of each summer's beach water samples above the Alberta Safe Beach Protocol benchmark for blue-green algae (more than 50,000 cyanobacteria cells per mL, or more than 10 µg/L of the toxin microcystin), at Wabamun Lake, Isle Lake, Lac Ste. Anne, Pigeon Lake and Wizard Lake, and at every Alberta beach sampled, from 2013 (cell counts began in 2012). The 2022 benchmark is applied to every year. At Wabamun the share ran from 89% of 9 samples in 2016 to 7% of 14 in 2022, and was 36% of 14 in 2026 against 31% across Alberta; every Wabamun sample that crossed it did so on cell count, with microcystin never above 1.4 µg/L there since 2009. Isle Lake, on the county's northwest edge, was over in 8 of 11 samples in 2026. This is monitoring data, not the advisory record: Alberta Health Services issues advisories, and a sample over the benchmark does not mean one was. Samples per lake are small and not random (beaches are often resampled after a high result), Wabamun was not sampled in 2018, and the 2026 figures are preliminary.

Environment · Parkland CountyMonthly

Municipal Debt per Person: Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and Parkland County

Each municipality's total debt divided by its population that year, for the City of Spruce Grove, the Town of Stony Plain and Parkland County, beside all Alberta municipalities combined (their total debt over their total population). The 2020 to 2022 workbooks carry no population schedule, so per-person figures skip those years. Calendar financial years from 2017, from each municipality's Financial Information Return as published by Alberta Municipal Affairs; a municipality that has not filed for a year is left out of it.

Governance · Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and Parkland CountyAnnual

Fine Particulate (PM2.5) From Sundance, Keephills and Genesee vs Sheerness and Battle River

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