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The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (abbreviated RMWB) [5] [6] is a specialized municipality in northeast Alberta, Canada. It is the largest regional municipality in Canada by area (105650.88km2 | this number includes Wood Buffalo Nation Park of Canada) [ 7 ] and is home to oil sand deposits known as the Athabasca oil sands .
In 2011, the RMWB's municipal council predicted that the municipality's population would exceed 231,000 residents by 2030, with more than 196,000 residents predicted to be living in Fort McMurray. On January 25, 2013, the Alberta government released 55,000 acres of Crown land to the municipality for development.
Alberta does not have an official municipal status type of regional municipality. [1] However, that has not prevented one municipality from branding itself as one. Wood Buffalo, formed as a specialized municipality on April 1, 1995, through the amalgamation of the City of Fort McMurray and Improvement District No. 143, changed its official name from Municipality of Wood Buffalo to Regional ...
The 2010 Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo municipal election was held Monday, October 18, 2010. Since 1968, provincial legislation has required every municipality to hold triennial elections.
Fort Chipewyan / ˈ tʃ ɪ p ə w aɪ ən,-p w aɪ-, ˈ tʃ ɪ p ə w ən /, commonly referred to as Fort Chip, is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada, within the Regional Municipality (RM) of Wood Buffalo. [4]
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and permitted in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Representative town meetings function largely the same as open town meetings, except that not all registered voters can participate or vote ...
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Melissa Blake is the former mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes Fort McMurray. Blake was elected as a municipal councillor in 1998 and re-elected to council in 2001. She was elected mayor in 2004 and would serve for four terms.