Aggregate
Regulations
Discover how companies navigate over 20 Acts and Regulations, emphasizing environmental responsibility. Learn about land reclamation, conservation planning, and operational conditions shaping responsible aggregate extraction practices.
Learn moreLand must be restored to equal or superior capability post-extraction, benefiting your community economically with local gravel use and aesthetically with reclaimed land turned into parks, golf courses, community centers, arable land, etc.
Companies mining aggregate submit detailed plans to Alberta Environment covering development, conservation, and reclamation strategies. This includes considerations for water quality, surrounding vegetation, and wildlife. Reclamation Security is mandated, held by the government until the area is restored to equivalent land capacity.
Your municipal district or county defines aggregate pit management, encompassing hauling routes, hours of operation, and features around the pit like trees and berms for noise and air quality control. The ASGA Truck Registry can integrate into these conditions, ensuring all trucks adhere to ASGA Registry Standards.
Legislation applicable to Exploration, Operation & Reclamation of Aggregate
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The Act enables government to provide direction and leadership in identifying current and future land-use objectives of the province, including economic, environmental and social objectives, while respecting private property rights. The Act provides for the coordination of decisions concerning land, species, human settlement, natural resources, and the environment while taking into account cumulative effects of human endeavours and other events.
https://open.alberta.ca/publications/a26p8The Act allows for the creation, management, and protection of wildlife areas for wildlife research activities, or for conservation or interpretation of wildlife. The purpose of wildlife areas is to preserve habitats that are critical to migratory birds and other wildlife species, particularly those that are at risk. The Wildlife Area Regulations prohibits all activities that could be harmful to species and to their habitat, unless a permit is issued indicating the permitted activity.
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-enforcement/acts-regulations/about-wildlife-act.htmlUseful Links
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