Robitaille Environmental

06/22/2024

Yesterday at Pinehurst Lake

04/25/2024

The danger of old smouldering burn piles are real. This fire today I assume was started by this old brush pile that was burnt this spring but probably had hot spots in it. Many years ago I got an emergency call of a field and bush fire one mile from Bellevue Hall in a dry hot windy October night. It took me a few hours to knockdown the burn bush but I saved a big chunk of forest and maybe the hall and a few homes. The old repiled bush that started the fire in the stubble field had smouldered for 3 years. Anyways that’s for the St Paul fire department.

04/24/2024

Not much Ice left on the lake.

12/01/2023

It’s not everyday/night that I get to photograph Northern Lights on a frozen lake with moonlight reflecting of the ice.

10/29/2020

Peter

10/28/2020

I’m building a bush wilderness trail by the North Saskatchewan River. This one is in the top 10 most dangerous earthmoving jobs in 45 years. I will finish the last of the steep cut in 3-4 hours. Peter

06/03/2020

This road was built up a steep grade but was sloped wrong and could cost a life so I fixed it with a mini-hoe and small dozer. Peter

04/20/2020

In 2019 I built 3/4 of a mile of road on private farm land to a beautiful acreage and Log house that use to have a field road to it. We waited a year before we had approval to build a approach onto this new private road. I built to road by myself with a D-8-H-Cat dozer, a Linkbelt -250 crawler-hoe, a Case 4 X 4 tractor-pull-packer and a old Cat-12 grader. All topsoil was striped and stockpiled for future reclamation when the job was completed. I created sediment ponds in case of downpours and spring runoff that would capture the sediment before reaching a 100 foot long by 24 inch diameter culvert. When the road was completed I use the hoe to place dirt onto the shoulder of the road by the fence/property line. Then with the dozer I spread the topsoil along the road slopes. By doing this it will guarantee plant growth that it will eliminate clay erosion to sensitive areas just by grass and weeds growing. At the time I build this road I have operated earth moving heavy equipment in Alberta for 44 years and do know what I’m doing. While building this road on private property everything was legal and environmentally done right. However some people in the subdivision cause a lot of trouble to the county and a council over this road including that a culvert was not installed. That was a outright lie by someone who did not even look to see if it was installed. They taxpayer could have demanded the county build a road for maybe $150,000 and that would include then to tie it in the new road to the subdivision. The approach I built to the private road was picked as the safest spot for a approach and connecting the Ironhorse Trail at the same time. Because of the bush fires these last few years all subdivision should have a Muster Area for emergency’s. The approach is a Muster point and also has a view of Mann Lake life no other place along the Iron-Horse Trail.

01/03/2019

02/05/2018

I am getting old and have studied Mother Earth the best I could in this short lifetime we all have here. These studies let me come to my own conclusions on the Earths environment problems and maybe possible solutions. - The plastics epidemic on all of our Earth wheather in the Oceans, in our waters or on the surface of the lands it’s a environmental problem. I have my own list of what I consider Top Ten Sins of Mother Earth. The plastics thing is in the top three (3). Its in the Oceans and waters of the world however most of it came from Lake’s, Rivers, Waterways, drainage canals, disasters and from the land itself. A cigarette filter thrown onto the street could end up in a waterways and then being eating by a fish or a bird as it enters the waters of the world. We need to make screening equipment, gathering equipment and recycling equipment worldwide as we turn recycling of all types of plastics and junk into a major recycling industry Worldwide. People living in poverty worldwide getting income for gathering up our planets mess or garbage. Turning a environmental nightmare with simple solutions while at the same time helping the less fortunate and needy of the world. What we need is a Environmental Union of All Nations. It’s about Mother Earth and making things right. People of all walks of life getting together with funding, lobbying all governments worldwide and then we will have solutions to this Environmental Nightmare. Mother 🌏🇨🇦 🌏Earth

05/15/2017

Climate Change Our beautiful planet is believed to be about 4 1/2 billion years old give or take a few hundred million years. I'm am 61 years old and for 41 years I have cleared earth, built roads/highways/freeways, in Alberta Canada. One man on one earth moving machine for approximately 100,000 hours of my working life reshaping earth and reclaiming earth. Living here in northeastern Alberta in the Lakeland and watching the lakes including my home at St Vincent Lake receded since 1983 gives me a insight to this. To think a mile thick chunk of glacier ice was over my home or hundreds of thousands of years and melted away approximately 10,000 years ago. Dam climate change on earth made many areas of here go from extreme drought to extreme flooding. Along comes farming and land development of the land into towns and city's. So when the wet years come there is flooding all over ("the worst ever on recorded history") because of development and no natural places for the water to go???? Water has 4 basics rules of physics, .1 Vapour 2. Solid 3. Liquid and 4. water runs downhill. More later