Pigeon Lake

• Fecal bacteria triggers water quality advisory for Zeiner Park Beach

  Alberta Health Services issued a water quality advisory for Zeiner Park Beach at Pigeon Lake Provincial Park on July 1 and lifted it three weeks later.

  Environment

  Jul 1
  
• Community to meet to discuss proposed feedlot near popular Alberta lake

  Pigeon Lake is fed by run-off, not streams or rivers, and is drained by a single creek, making it highly vulnerable to algal blooms fed by nutrients washing into its waters.

  Environment

  May 20
  
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• Nixon lays out public input on feedlot near popular Alberta lake

  Alberta's environment minister says there has been public input on a plan to build a cattle feedlot near a popular recreational lake southwest of Edmonton.

  Environment

  May 5
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• Alberta MLA wants more public comment on feedlot plan near Pigeon Lake

  NDP environment critic Marlin Schmidt has written to Environment Minister Jason Nixon, asking him to reopen public comment on a plan to put a 4,000-head feedlot near Pigeon Lake.

  Environment

  May 4
• Youth charged with attempted murder after 16 year old stabbed at Pigeon Lake school

  Shanise Rowan Yellowbird said her son, Reyez Rowan, was stabbed once in the chest and once in the abdomen. 

  Crime

  Apr 26
• Student airlifted to hospital after stabbing at Pigeon Lake school

  A student at Pigeon Lake Regional School was flown to hospital Monday morning after being stabbed. 

  Crime

  Apr 25
• Residents raise stink over proposed industrial feedlot near popular Alberta lake

  Dozens of people who live in Wetaskiwin County oppose an application for a confined feeding operation near Pigeon Lake, citing environmental and property value concerns.

  Environment

  Apr 10
• What are the swarms of black bugs taking over Alberta’s Pigeon Lake?

  Campers around Pigeon Lake, Alta., have recently noticed swarms of mosquito-like black bugs taking over the area southwest of Edmonton. So what exactly are these bugs?

  Environment

  May 30, 2021
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• Man charged after woman seriously injured in central Alberta abduction

  At around 11 p.m. Tuesday, Maskwacis RCMP were called to Pigeon Lake after a woman was abducted from a home in the central Alberta community.

  Crime

  Jan 22, 2021
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• Alberta officials warned oilpatch faced ‘landslide’ of failures. Then coronavirus struck

  The provincial regulator warned in April that some companies were walking away from contaminated sites without properly shutting down.

  Investigations

  Dec 16, 2020