HeyJaredThe Gravity Well with Jenny Yeremiy
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How Far is Too Far? (opens the original)
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This conversation—from fall 2024—with Alberta conservation leaders, Lorne Fitch and Kevin Van Tighem , centers on the ecological crisis and water security issues in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes and headwaters, framed through cumulative impacts from activities like irrigation expansion, coal and gravel mining, clear‑cut forestry, fossil fuel development, and recreational off‑highway vehicle use. We emphasize that Alberta is a finite, increasingly arid headwaters province whose land‑use decisions alre
Alberta's Water Laws & Licensing System (opens the original)
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The episode—from the Water in Southern Alberta podcast miniseries co-hosted with Bob Morrison which originally aired in June 2025—brings together legal and planning experts to unpack how Alberta’s water law and water market function, especially in southern Alberta. Arlene Kwasniak, a long‑time scholar of water law from the University of Calgary, outlines the complex legal framework governing water, starting from the Canadian Constitution’s division of powers between federal and provincial govern
Water Bankruptcy on the Horizon (opens the original)
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Bob Sandford introduces himself to the Concerned Citizens on Climate Change (4C) group, in February of 2026, as a long-time Alberta-based water and climate expert who now serves as senior government relations liaison for global climate emergency response at the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, noting that his institute recently launched a major global report on “global water bankruptcy” at the UN General Assembly. He frames his remarks within UN principles and Indigenou
Water Agency Needed! (opens the original)
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In light of the closing of the Alberta Water Council—as we learned from Jay White —and the 2026 Global Water Bankruptcy report— courtesy of Bob Sandford —now is a great time to revisit Engineer J. Bruce Smedley’s recommendation to form a public water agency. This conversation from August 2024 centers on Alberta’s escalating water crisis, framed by drought conditions, failing infrastructure, and inadequate government planning and oversight. I outline recent drought impacts, including four souther
Agriculture, Colonialism and Drought History in Western Canada (opens the original)
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The Gravity Well project as an effort to use dialogue to address environmental and social dilemmas, with a particular focus on water crises in Southern Alberta and the Eastern slopes as “taps” that are being degraded by logging, coal mining, oil and gas, and roads, as referred to in my conversation with Harley Bastien . This episode, released in August of 2024, features environmental historian, Shannon Stunden Bower, an associate professor at the University of Alberta, a white settler scholar wo
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