The Lovett River is a short
river in the
Alberta foothills. The Lovett is an early
tributary of the
Pembina River, itself a major tributary of the
Athabasca River. The Lovett River was formerly known as the ''Little Pembina River'', but to avoid confusion its name was changed. The new name was derived from Lovettville, a defunct
coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
town in the vicinity. The settlement took its name from H. A. Lovett, President of North American Collieries, a mining
company
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in the area.
[Karamitsanis, Aphrodite. ''Place Names of Alberta, Volume 1''. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1991), pg. 146]
Course
The river forms in the
foothills south of
Coalspur, Alberta. It flows in a general southwest direction before being bridged by
Alberta Highway 40/
Alberta Highway 734. It passes through an active coal mining area and a few minor
natural gas fields
A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.
Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is created in surrounding rock by the presence ...
, as well as former coal mining towns that are now
ghost towns. It then drains into the
Pembina River
See also
*
List of Alberta rivers
References
Rivers of Alberta
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