Research Guides: Environment Technician: External Sources

Grey literature is not always easy to find but the extra work you put into finding quality information will show in your completed project.

In addition to the websites listed, here are a handful of places to look for Grey Literature:

Lunaris
Lunaris is Canada’s national discovery service for multidisciplinary data from research institutions across the country. Datasets from over 100 academic, government, and research repositories are made discoverable in a bilingual interface that provides keyword and map-based searching.
Oil Sands Monitoring Technical Reports
Environment and Climate Change - NWT
National Pollutant Release Inventory Data
Environment and Climate Change Canada - Open Government Portal
British Columbia Data Catalogue
Aboriginal and treaty rights information system (ATRIS).

Occupational Health & Safety
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is responsible for enforcing OHS laws through inspections, investigations and prosecutions. The legislation establishes minimum standards for safe and healthy practices in Alberta workplaces.
Acts, Regulations, and Rules : Alberta Energy Regulator
OneStop : Alberta Energy Regulator
Access reports, maps, templates, and more.

Acts administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada
Listing of federal laws that provide oversight into the management and protection of Canada's environment.
Regulations administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada
Regulations are legally enforceable instruments that can create different kinds of requirements on different kinds of activities, including restrictions on some activities and authorizations on others to improve scientific research or commercial activities in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Environmental Services Association of Alberta (ESAA)
A not-for-profit established in 1987 that provides members educational events, network opportunities, job postings, and free weekly newspapers, and more.
Alberta Environmental Network
Non-profit organization comprised or environmental groups in preserving and protecting Alberta's environment. Read up on media news releases, events in Alberta, job postings, and funding opportunities.
Environment and Parks
Find info on Alberta's air and water quality, climate change, environmental impact assessments (EIAs), fish and wildlife regulations, land management, outdoor recreation, and waste management.

Canadian Environmental Protection Act Registry
Search for hazardous substances, environmental regulations and codes, and documents
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
A federal body accountable to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

NorQuest College Library