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The Conservatives are at it again. It’s like watching the whack-a-mole game at the midway.
Last year, they got slammed down for secretly trying to sell off native grassland to a farm corporation that wanted to turn it in to a giant potato patch.
Now they’re back, with a similar proposal. We’re talking 65 square kilometers of land!! And they want a proposal that involves irrigation!
They would be plowing under a sizable percentage of what native grasslands remain, and they say that they would put the money from the sale in to the Enhanced Land Stewardship Fund, which is used to purchase and protect lands with high conservation value.
Huh???
Destroy land that has high value, in order to buy other land that has high value?? What’s wrong with that picture?
Nobody wants this to happen. Even the Calgary Herald wrote an editorial opposing the project.
For more information on this story, please see below a number of links to recent media coverage.
If this proposal concerns you, now is the time to let the AB Gov’t know how you feel.
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Jamie Woodford
Lethbridge Herald (with CP files)
By Sean Myers,
Calgary Herald
September 1, 2011
By Robert Remington,
Calgary Herald
September 3, 2011
Alberta Wilderness Association
Editorial: Native grassland shouldn't be sold
Alberta ignoring advice it's already received
Calgary Herald September 4, 2011
The province's decision to sell 6,500 hectares of vital grassland habitat is a short-sighted mistake that flies in the face of recommendations from the government's own advisory council.
The Alberta government has put out a request for proposals to develop Cypress County native grasslands into irrigated farmland. These are the same Crown lands that were offered under a secret deal last fall to SLM Spud Farms, but which fell through amid public criticism over the lack of transparency.
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