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Nineteen Recommendations

An essay from the Auditor General's recommendation tracker. Nineteen outstanding items at Environment and Protected Areas became thirteen, and two of those thirteen are recommendations the department has said it will not implement.

11 July 2026
AlbertaTIERPublic AccountsAuditor General
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Eighty Cents of the Dollar

Audited statements show the NRCB putting roughly four of every five operating dollars into confined feeding regulation, funded by Environment and Protected Areas transfers, with a callable cash surplus from appropriated money.

11 July 2026
AlbertaNRCBAOPAPublic AccountsGovernance

What ERA Announced

An essay from the ledger. ERA's project database and press archive show the lifetime commitment figure washing out its own failures, and put a floor under the gross amount the program has announced.

8 July 2026
AlbertaTIERCarbon PricingClimate PolicyPublic Accounts

The Missing Year

An essay from the ledger. Every CCEMC and ERA annual report contains audited financial statements, except one, and the gap sits in the middle of every series this site has published.

5 July 2026
AlbertaTIERPublic Accounts

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