The director of the Prairie Adaptation and Research Collaborative at U or R is encouraged to see regular status updates for Saskatchewan's climate plans but sees some holes.

The oil sands depend on the Athabaska River. But three interconnected threats may make the river's flow far smaller in the future than it is today.

A new study says rules governing how much water oilsands plants can take from the Athabasca River aren't based on enough information and don't account for how low flows can get in the crucial waterway.